EU should redefine PKK’s terrorist organization status after process: BDP co-chair
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If the ongoing peace process is successful, there will be no need to keep the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) on the list of terrorist organizations, the co-chair of the Peace and Democracy Party (BDP) Selahattin Demirtaş said in Brussels May 29. “If the violence ends, the weapons end, it is not necessary to define [the PKK] as a terrorist organization. Quite on the contrary, this can put the process at risk,” Demirtaş said following a meeting with the President of the European Parliament Martin Schulz and the head of the EU-Turkey Joint Parliamentary Committee Hélène Flautre. “The [terrorist organizations] list should be reviewed in order to support and facilitate the transition of PKK militants to a normal life or to politics.”
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