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Turkish banks lifted the benchmark stock index to a record as investors speculated Standard & Poor’s will raise the nation to investment grade and as Kurdish militants started withdrawing from the country today.
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Fighters from the Kurdistan Workers’ Party, or PKK, have started withdrawing from Turkey under a peace agreement being negotiated between the government and the group’s jailed leader, a senior Kurdish lawmaker said.
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Turkey stocks headed for a record as growing optimism over a peace process with Kurdish militants in the nation’s southeast and falling commodity prices fueled bets of a second credit-rating upgrade this year.
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Militants of the separatist Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) will start withdrawing from Turkey on May 8, the pro-Kurdish Firat news agency said today, citing senior PKK commander Murat Karayilan.
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The recent drama over the euro area’s bailout of Cyprus diverted attention from two important events, both of which feature the island’s old nemesis, Turkey.
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Abdullah Demirbas told his two sons that Turkey’s Kurds should claim their rights through politics, not war. One agreed, and is preparing to start compulsory service in Turkey’s army. The other didn’t, and fled to the mountains to join militants fighting against it.
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The lira gained for a second day and bonds pared losses after imprisoned Kurdistan Workers’ Party leader Abdullah Ocalan called on militants to quit the armed struggle and leave Turkey.
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Abdullah Ocalan, the imprisoned leader of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party, is moving Turkish markets from his jail cell with calls for rebels to cease their armed conflict.
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Abdullah Ocalan, the jailed leader of the militant Kurdish group that has been fighting Turkey’s army for almost 30 years, called for an end to the armed struggle and a political solution to the conflict.
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When Kurdish lawmakers visited Turkey’s Black Sea coast last week to promote Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s peace effort, they were met by stone- throwing crowds and had to cut the trip short.
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