Pro-Kurdish party criticises Turkey's 'hesitant' steps toward PKK peace

“ANKARA, April 28 (Reuters) - Turkey's pro-Kurdish DEM Party issued one of its strongest criticisms yet of the government's handling of a fragile peace process, highlighting on Tuesday a growing stand-offbetween Ankara and Kurdish militants over next steps to end a decades-long conflict. DEM is parliament's third biggest party and helped facilitate steps toward peace between the Turkish state and the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), whose conflict has killed more than 40,000 people since 1984.

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