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Kurdish MPs urge Turkey to free militant leader | Reuters

Kurdish MPs urge Turkey to free militant leader

By Ayla Jean Yackley

ISTANBUL | Sat Jul 21, 2012 10:02pm BST

(Reuters) - Kurdish members of Turkey's parliament on Saturday called for the release of Abdullah Ocalan, the jailed leader of the armed Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), saying an end to the group's 27-year conflict with the army is impossible while he is in prison.

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