Turkey Plans Additional Steps to End Kurdish Unrest, Sabah Says
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Turkey is drafting a second set of proposals following its so-called democratic opening of 2009 to end Kurdish unrest in the country’s southeast, Sabah reported, without saying how it got the information.
Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan approved an initial package of measures that include faster prosecution, an end to long pre-trial imprisonments and the lifting of arrest warrants on those members of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party, or PKK, who voluntarily surrender and disarm, according to the Istanbul-based newspaper. Other proposals include changing legal criteria for what constitutes terrorism and abolishing certain limitations on the freedom of speech and press, it said.