{"id":68744,"date":"2013-03-27T09:51:24","date_gmt":"2013-03-27T07:51:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/?p=68744"},"modified":"2023-04-03T08:44:51","modified_gmt":"2023-04-03T05:44:51","slug":"turkey-mulls-wise-people-group-for-kurd-peace-process","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/2013\/03\/27\/turkey-mulls-wise-people-group-for-kurd-peace-process\/","title":{"rendered":"Turkey mulls &#8216;wise people&#8217; group for Kurd peace process"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Turkey&#8217;s government is planning to establish a consultative body to oversee the ongoing peace negotiations with the outlawed Kurdistan Workers&#8217; Party (PKK), the prime minister said on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If we decide on forming a group of wise people&#8230; it will be our consultative committee,&#8221; Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan told his lawmakers in a parliamentary meeting.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We might need a group of wise people. We wish to see every segment of (society) being represented there,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p>The composition and functions of such a grouping were not immediately clear but Erdogan said Saturday that it might comprise academics, businessmen, NGOs and journalists.<\/p>\n<p>The government initiative follows a ceasefire call from jailed Kurdish leader Abdullah Ocalan last week for PKK fighters to put down their arms and withdraw from Turkish territory.<\/p>\n<p>The renewed push for peace is seeking to end the PKK&#8217;s 29-year armed campaign for self-rule that has killed some 45,000 people, mostly Kurds.<\/p>\n<p>fo\/vjf<\/p>\n<p>via Turkey mulls &#8216;wise people&#8217; group for Kurd peace process.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Turkey&#8217;s government is planning to establish a consultative body to oversee the ongoing peace negotiations with the outlawed Kurdistan Workers&#8217; Party (PKK), the prime minister said on Tuesday. &#8220;If we decide on forming a group of wise people&#8230; it will be our consultative committee,&#8221; Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan told his lawmakers in a parliamentary [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":83,"featured_media":65961,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[89],"tags":[1280],"class_list":["post-68744","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-turkey","tag-pkk"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68744","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/83"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68744"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68744\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/65961"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}