Turkey announced on Sunday a $14 billion regional development plan that aims to reduce the economic gap between its mainly Kurdish southeast region and the rest of the country.
Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) in southeast Turkey, as well as the advent of a new leadership in neighbouring Syria with cordial ties to Ankara.
Sanliurfa that the government would spend a total of 496.2 billion lira ($14.15 billion) on 198 projects across the region in the period to 2028.
met the PKK's jailed leader Abdullah Ocalan on Saturday, the first such visit in nearly a decade, and they quoted him as indicating he might be ready to call on the group's militants to lay down their weapons.
Tayyip Erdogan on Ocalan to end the PKK's 40-year insurgency, in which more than 40,000 people have been killed.
conflict between the Turkish state and PKK now centred on northern Iraq, was mainly focused on southeast Turkey in the past.
classify the PKK as a terrorist organisation.
recent developments in Syria, where rebels backed by Turkey took power this month after the overthrow of President Bashar al-Assad and his flight to Russia.
(Reuters)
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