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A MAJOR drive is being launched on Saturday to delist the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) as a terrorist organisation, to mark the 43rd anniversary of its founding.
Such a move is “an essential step in bringing peace and democracy to Turkey and the Middle East,” a PKK official told the Morning Star today.
“The PKK is not a terrorist organisation,” he insisted. “We have the right to defend ourselves and the Kurdish people against Turkish fascism and fight for our [Kurds’] right to exist.
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