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Kurdish families honour their dead on road to peace with Turkey
Turkish authorities are publishing PKK martyr lists as families seek confirmation of relatives lost in the conflict, which has killed nearly 50,000 people.
The Turkish authorities have now begun publishing lists of "martyrs" to the PKK cause, after parliament this month passed a law to reintegrate Kurdish fighters into civilian life.
"He (Mahmut) fell in 2020. We're only finding out now. We spoke to him just once, in 2017. We thought he was alive," Konak, 31 said tearfully, her face etched with grief.
"There are so many others like him. They fell so that we could live free. They sacrificed themselv…