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Turkey’s jailed Kurdish PKK leader sees better chance for peace deal / CALLS FOR “CALM RESTRAINT!”

ISTANBUL, Reuters – 22-1o.2014 –  The jailed Kurdish leader of Turkey’s outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) said he saw a better chance for a peace deal with Ankara: “My hopes over a successful execution in this process have been increased,” Abdullah Ocalan said in a message relayed on Tuesday by pro-Kurdish lawmakers who visited him in his prison on the island of Imrali near Istanbul. He said “we have entered a new phase as of October 15 regarding the process that concerns Turkey’s democratic future”.”What we need here is trust for peace and democracy, bolder political steps and a clearer will,” Ocalan said.