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Turkey's parliament has taken a major step toward ending four decades of conflict with the PKK. The new law sets out how some militants can return to civilian life, but leaves Abdullah Ocalan's future unresolved. Turkey's parliament on Monday approved legislation offering a conditional pardon and legal protections to thousands of members of the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) . After around 12 hours of debate, lawmakers voted 468 to 88 in favor of the 12-article bill, with six abstentions. It was backed by President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's AK Party , its nationalist MHP allies and the pro- Kurdish DEM party.
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More than 40,000 people have been killed, and the conflict has caused major economic damage in Kurdish-majority southeastern Turkey and fueled decades of political and social division.
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