A major Kurdish rebel group has ended its five-year truce, challenging the Turkish government as it launches a fresh drive for EU membership.
A spokesperson for PADEK – the Kurdish group formerly known as the PKK – told the BBC that the group now held no responsibility for the deal made by its leader Abdullah Ocalan in 1999, when he was taken by the Turkish authorities.
PADEK claims that despite its abandonment of terrorist activity in recent years, Ankara has continued actions a...
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