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29 September 2006 - 11:34 AMT

Turkey Rejected Kurdish Leader’s Call

Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan rejected the call of leader of Kurdish separatists Abdullah Ocalan to ceasefire, reports the AFP. “Armistice is not concluded with terrorists,” Erdogan replied urging Kurds to lay down arms.

Yesterday leader of the Kurdish Worker’s Party (PKK) Abdullah Ocalan, who is serving life sentence in the Turkish jail called on the Turkish authorities and Kurdish separatists to conclude an armistice.

However, the PKK soldiers ignored Ocalan’s call and on September 28 night blew up the gas pipeline that conveys Iranian natural gas to Turkey. There are killed and injured. The fire was seen in a radius of 45 km.