The comment by Turkish nationalist leader and Erdogan ally Devlet Bahceli came a year after he urged the start of a peace process with the Kurdistan Workers Party.
A man holds a poster of Selahattin Demirtas, jailed former leader of pro-Kurdish Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP), during a spring festival of Newroz celebration in Diyarbakir, southeastern Turkey, March 21, 2025.(photo credit: REUTERS/SERTAC KAYAR/FILE PHOTO)ByREUTERS
