Turkey’s Kurdish party says Syria deal leaves Ankara ‘no excuses’ on peace process

Turkey’s pro-Kurdish DEM Party said on Monday that the Turkish government had no more “excuses” to delay a peace process with the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) now that a landmark integration deal was achieved in neighbouring Syria.

On Sunday in Syria, the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) agreed to come under the control of authorities in Damascus – a move that Ankara had long sought as integral to its own peace effort with the PKK.

“For more than a year, the government...