Senior Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) official Cemil Bayik warned that the group’s disarmament process could stall unless Turkey accompanies it with political reforms, criticizing a new law governing the surrender and reintegration of PKK members as insufficient.
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Bayik said the National Solidarity and Social Integration Law does not clearly connect the surrender of weapons with a transition to democratic politics.
“The language used in the law is deeply flawed,” Bayik told the PKK-linked Firat News Agency in remarks carried by Turkish media Saturday.
“We have made clear on every occasion that this
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