Top operatives of the terrorist Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) in the Kandil Mountains of northern Iraq, where PKK hideouts are located, have agreed to the withdrawal of PKK terrorist from Turkish soil, yet they say they have reservations, media reports indicated on Tuesday. Peace and Democracy Party (BDP) Co-chairperson Selahattin Demirtas and BDP Istanbul deputy Sirri Sureyya Onder returned from Kandil to Turkey on Tuesday. They had traveled to the region in order to deliver a letter written by the imprisoned PKK leader, Abdullah Ocalan, to PKK operatives in Kandil.

The process of negotiations that seek to make the terrorist Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) lay down its arms will apparently take some time. Steps to be taken as part of this process will, at times, be taken quickly and, at other times, we will see a certain slowdown. As mutual expectations evolve into desperation or hope, this will make the political atmosphere tense and people more nervous. At other times, we will see a relative softening.

The Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) is not only on Turkey's list of terrorist organizations but those of the European Union and US as well. It has been waging a 29-year armed campaign against Turkey to gain Kurdish rights, such as education in the Kurdish language, and autonomy for the Kurdish-dominated southeastern regions of the country.

German federal prosecutors on Tuesday pressed charges against a 35-year-old Turkish man suspected of recruiting for the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) throughout Europe. Prosecutors charged the man, identified only as Metin A., with "membership of a foreign terrorist organisation." They said he worked from March 2008 until his arrest in July 2011 as a leading recruiter for the youth wing of the PKK, known as "Komalen Ciwan".