Turkey’s Parliament Opens Debate on a Pardon-Like Bill for Thousands of PKK Militants
- Turkey’s parliament began debating a draft bill offering conditional amnesty to thousands of Kurdish militants to support a peace initiative with the insurgent PKK group.
- The Kurdistan Workers’ Party ended its armed campaign against Turkey last year and chose to disarm and disband as part of the peace effort.
- The draft legislation details disarmament procedures and rehabilitation plans for PKK members, while suspending some prison sentences and postponing investigations and trials.
- The bill excludes militants convicted of intentional killings and those sentenced to life terms before 2005, and will only take effect after confirmation of the PKK’s disarmament by Turkey’s National Security Council.
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Turkiye’s parliament opens debate on a pardon-like bill for thousands
ANKARA: Turkiye’s parliament was set to open debate Monday on a draft bill that would introduce a conditional amnesty for thousands of Kurdish militants, offering them a pardon-like mechanism in a bid to advance the government’s peace initiative with their insurgent group. Last year, the Kurdistan Workers’ Party, or PKK, ended its decades-long armed campaign against the
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Turkey’s parliament opens debate on a pardon-like bill for thousands of PKK militants
Turkey’s parliament is set to debate a draft bill that could suspend sentences, investigations or trials for thousands of Kurdish militants.
Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) demands the release of leader Abdullah Öcalan and criticizes the proposed law for former combatants. The perpetrators of the most serious crimes face life imprisonment.
The draft law on the future of the PKK fighters will be submitted to the Turkish deputies on Monday. The party demands the guarantee that its fighters abandoning weapons "will be able to participate in a democratic political life" without risking being "imprisoned." It also calls for the release of the historical leader of the Kurdish guerrilla, Abdullah ÖcalanAs the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) dissolved on Sunday, the "errors and shortcoming…
The Workers' Party of Kurdistan (PKK), in the process of dissolution, criticized a bill on the future of its fighters that will be submitted today in the Turkish Parliament, also demanding the release of the historical leader of the Kurdish guerrillas.
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