By Ece Toksabay

ANKARA (Reuters) -Senior Kurdish lawmakers in Turkey say a lasting peace with the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) requires legal protections for militants who disarm, direct talks with the group's jailed leader and an easing of a crackdown on the opposition.

Turkey's parliament launched a commission earlier this month to oversee the disarmament of the outlawed PKK militant group after its jailed leader Abdullah Ocalan in February called for an end to its insurgency.

The two sides are trying to resolve a four-decades conflict that has also spilled over into neighbouring Syria and Iraq.

In separate interviews with Reuters, the two MPs - Meral Danis Bestas and Gulistan Kilic Kocyigit - said the commission must quickly move on from procedural debates to enacting reforms to maintain momentum after the group in May said it would disarm.

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