PKK group to surrender to Turkey for Kurdish rights
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A group of Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) guerrillas is expected to surrender to Turkish military forces on Monday in a gesture of support for Turkey's Kurdish initiative.
The government has been working on a Kurdish initiative that is expected to give greater freedoms to Turkey's large Kurdish minority, including language rights by which Kurdish may be taught in public universities.
The reform process is seen as vital to boosting Turkey's European Union membership application and ending a 25-year conflict between the state and the separatist PKK, which has killed more than 40,000 people. It is unlikely to be a success without political consensus.
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