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'Bury weapons, not children,' Kurdish mothers tell Turkish lawmakers

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21.08.2025

By Ece Toksabay

ANKARA (Reuters) -The mothers of some fighters in the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) called on Wednesday for an amnesty for their children and an end to decades of death, before a Turkish parliamentary commission overseeing the group's disarmament.

"We mothers do not want to cry anymore. Let us bury weapons, not our children," Nezahat Teke, a Kurdish mother speaking in broken Turkish, told lawmakers on behalf of a group called the........

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