Turkey Says PKK’s Cease-Fire Not Enough to End Violence
A Turkish national flag hangs above stores in the Grand Bazaar market in Istanbul, Turkey.
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Turkey views a unilateral cease-fire by Kurdish militant group PKK as an “important step,” though not enough to end the fighting in the country’s southeast, interim Deputy Prime Minister Numan Kurtulmus said.
The PKK “must bury arms and convince people that it will not take up arms again,” Kurtulmus said in a televised press conference late Monday in Ankara.