Jailed PKK boss says laws needed in Turkey peace process

Jailed militant leader Abdullah Ocalan said on Friday that peace-related laws were needed for a transition to democratic integration in Turkey, in a statement read out a year after he called on his Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) to end its decades-old insurgency and disband.

That landmark call fuelled hopes for an end to a conflict that has killed more than 40,000 people, sowed deep divisions and stymied development in mainly Kurdish southeast Turkey. But progress has been slow.

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