Khaleej Times Online - AP: "A Kurdish rebel group fighting for autonomy in Turkey’s southeast announced a unilateral, one-month cease-fire on Friday and said it planned to pursue indirect negotiations with Ankara.
The Kurdistan Workers Party, or PKK, said from Brussels that it was ordering its forces to hold fire between Aug. 20 and Sept. 20 - a dramatic step following a string of bombings at Aegean resorts claimed by militants and ambushes of Turkish troops in the southeast.
But the rebels added that they would defend themselves if attacked by Turkish forces.
“The decision of a one-month cease-fire stands,” said Remzi Kartal, a member of the executive committee of KONGRA-GEL, PKK’s political wing, told The Associated Press in Brussels. “But we will switch from an active defense to a passive one.”
Kartal also said his group planned “to seek indirect contacts with Ankara to have a dialogue with the Turkish government” to resolve Turkey’s Kurdish dispute."
Friday, August 19, 2005
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