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Kurdish deal with Ankara reachable: Ocalan

1 Dec 2014 – Kurdpress – The imprisoned leader of Turkey’s outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) has expressed hope to conclude a peace deal with the Turkish government within months. Abdullah Ocalan made the remarks in a statement released on Sunday, after politicians from the People’s Democratic Party (HDP) visited him on his island prison off the Turkish city of Istanbul.

He stressed that a “framework” for the peace negotiations aimed at halting the three-decade conflict with Ankara was about to be finalized. “If the parties execute the process in a consistent, responsible and determined manner, a major democratic solution that could determine the future of the whole Middle East could be reached within 4-5 months,” the statement said.