"Prominent Kurds call on rebels to stop fighting
16/06/2005 AFP
ANKARA, June 16 (AFP) - 11h31 - Turkey�s leading Kurdish politicians on Thursday joined calls on Kurdish rebels to lay down their arms, following a marked increase in deadly violence in the country�s southeast after the militants called off a five-year ceasefire.
The appeal came in a joint statement by 14 prominent Kurdish figures, including Leyla Zana, a former lawmaker and internationally renowned campaigner for Kurdish rights, and Tuncer Bakirhan, the head of Turkey�s main pro-Kurdish party, DEHAP. "
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