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Turkey’s Military Uneasy Over Peace With PKK

The Turkish military still has its questions about the Turkish-PKK peace process.
A member of Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) works on her laptop in northern Iraq May 14, 2013. The first group of Kurdish militants to withdraw from Turkey under a peace process entered northern Iraq on Tuesday, and were greeted by comrades from the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), in a symbolic step towards ending a three-decades-old insurgency. The 13 men and women, carrying guns and with rucksacks on their backs, arrived in the area of Heror, near Metina mountain on the Turkish-Iraqi border, a Reuters witnes

A small number of a second group of Turkish-Kurdish militants are reported to have pulled back from Turkey on May 15 — into their camps in northern Iraq as part of the beginning of a peace move initiated by the Turkish government to find a political settlement to its three-decade-long Kurdish uprising that has taken the lives of about 50,000 people including civilians, security forces as well as Kurdish rebels.

A cease-fire declared by Turkey’s outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) upon a call made by its imprisoned leader Abdullah Ocalan on March 21 is followed by the withdrawal process of the PKK militants as of May 8, from Turkish soil to their bases in northern Iraq.

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