Top pro-Kurdish lawmakers urge faster steps in Turkey’s PKK peace plan

By Ece Toksabay

ANKARA (Reuters) -Senior Kurdish lawmakers in Turkey say a lasting peace with the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) requires legal protections for militants who disarm, direct talks with the group’s jailed leader and an easing of a crackdown on the opposition.

Turkey’s parliament launched a commission earlier this month to oversee the disarmament of the outlawed PKK militant group after its jailed leader Abdullah Ocalan in February called for an end to its insurgency.

The two sides…