‘Bury weapons, not children,’ Kurdish mothers tell Turkish lawmakers

By Ece Toksabay

ANKARA (Reuters) -The mothers of some fighters in the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) called on Wednesday for an amnesty for their children and an end to decades of death, before a Turkish parliamentary commission overseeing the group’s disarmament.

“We mothers do not want to cry anymore. Let us bury weapons, not our children,” Nezahat Teke, a Kurdish mother speaking in broken Turkish, told lawmakers on behalf of a group called the “Peace Mothers”.

The PKK, which took…