The Kurdish militant PKK’s withdrawal of its fighters from Turkish soil is aimed at protecting the peace process with Turkey from “provocations”, one of the group’s leaders told AFP.
“There are those who want to obstruct this process.. The step we are taking now is to prevent such provocative approaches otherwise they could harm the process,” Devrim Palu told AFP in an interview in northern Iraq after the PKK said it was withdrawing all its fighters from Turkey.
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