Cizre, Turkey (Reuters)-Guerrillas of the Kurdistan Workers ' Party (PKK) frees eight people Wednesday of Turkey that they hold it for two years in northern Iraq, said a Kurdish official told AFP.
The men were freed as part of a new peace push by Turkey's Government to end 29-year Kurdish insurgency led by the PKK, branded a terrorist group by much of the world community, the AFP report.
"We have accepted detainees safely," said Husamettin Zenderlioglu, a member of the democracy and peace Party (BDP) pro-Kurd who was part of the delegation to accept the inmates.
Zenderlioglu, which is in northern Iraq, deliver it to a AFP correspondent near Turkey's border with Iraq.
The eighth release of inmates, including the security apparatus and civil servants, made after a request from a jailed Kurdish leader, Abdullah Ocalan, who last month expressed its hope through the BDP's parliamentary members who visit that he wanted to see the prisoners were gathered together again with their families.
Officials started negotiations with Turkey on Ocalan last October, with the main purpose of disarming rebels who use bases in Iraq as a place to launch attacks against security forces in the southeastern region of Turkey.
According to a plan that covered government and Ocalan Ankara, PKK would end hostilities and withdraw fighters from Turkey-warriors as the beginning of disarmament, in exchange for greater rights for Kurds established in the Constitution.
The fugitive Ocalan was arrested in Kenya on February 15, 1999 in a secret operation Turkey after he was exiled from Syria, where he was based for a decade to organize the workers ' Party of Kurdistan (PKK).
The initial verdict against Ocalan death sentence converted to life imprisonment sentence on a prison island off the coast of Istanbul since 2002.
Each year the Kurdish demonstrators clashed with police to protest Turkey's arrest of their leader.
Turkey, the EU and the u.s. considers the Kurdistan Workers ' Party (PKK) as a terrorist organization.
Turkey's military launched air attacks and ground operations are limited to the northern Iraq since August 2011 following the wave of attacks, the PKK guerrillas after the traffic-jammed a ceasefire before.
The PKK launched attacks from their hiding places in the remote mountains of Iraq as part of their war to gain greater rights and autonomy for the Kurdish population.
More than 40,000 people have died since the PKK took up arms in 1984. (M014)
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