Turkey's Kurdish Regions Not Yet Ready To Believe In Peace Process

Fuente: International Business Times

In a ceremony Friday in Iraq members of the Kurdish rebel group PKK destroyed their weapons AFP Southeast Turkey, where the army has battled Kurdish militants for decades, is not yet convinced that lasting peace is at hand. In a slickly managed ceremony across the border in Iraq Friday, members of the Kurdish rebel group PKK destroyed their weapons as part of a peace process underway with the Turkish state. But on the streets and in the tea houses of Hakkari, a Kurdish-majority town some 50 kilometres (31 miles) from the Iraqi border, few people express much hope that the deadly conflict is over.