{"id":69306,"date":"2013-04-08T09:54:15","date_gmt":"2013-04-08T06:54:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/?p=69306"},"modified":"2013-04-08T09:54:15","modified_gmt":"2013-04-08T06:54:15","slug":"kerry-hails-pkk-move-on-ceasefire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/2013\/04\/08\/kerry-hails-pkk-move-on-ceasefire\/","title":{"rendered":"Kerry hails PKK move on ceasefire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ISTANBUL: US Secretary of State John Kerry yesterday hailed the commitment of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers\u2019 Party (PKK) to a ceasefire under a renewed push by the Turkish government to end three decades of hostilities.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe welcome the PKK\u2019s commitment to lay down its arms,\u201d Kerry told a news conference in Istanbul with Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe discussed our work to combat terrorism in all its forms &#8230; including the violence that has plagued Turkey for three long decades,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo peace process is easy. It always takes courage and determination.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Both countries are members of Nato, and the United States has for several years supported Ankara in its fight against the PKK on Iraqi soil.<\/p>\n<p>The PKK is blacklisted as a terror group by Ankara, the European Union and the United States.<\/p>\n<p>Jailed Kurdish rebel chief Abdullah Ocalan last month called for a ceasefire in a move that raised expectations for an end to a conflict that has cost some 45,000 lives, mostly Kurdish.<\/p>\n<p>\bAFP<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ISTANBUL: US Secretary of State John Kerry yesterday hailed the commitment of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers\u2019 Party (PKK) to a ceasefire under a renewed push by the Turkish government to end three decades of hostilities. \u201cWe welcome the PKK\u2019s commitment to lay down its arms,\u201d Kerry told a news conference in Istanbul with Turkish Foreign [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":83,"featured_media":60022,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[4211,1280],"class_list":["post-69306","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-usa","tag-kerry","tag-pkk"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69306","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=69306"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69306\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/60022"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}