"We have started a process ... to provide opportunities for a political settlement. As long as you support us, then we will deal with this issue for sure, "said Erdogan told party supporters in the town of Midyat, which has a population of Kurdish ethnic mix, Turkey and Arabic, AFP reported.
"' Isha ' God, we will address these issues as long as you help us by your prayers," he said in a televised statement, pointing at the rebellion launched by the outlawed Kurdistan Workers ' Party Group (PKK) in 1984.
Turkey Intelligence Agency began talks with PKK leaders again imprisoned, Abdullah Ocalan, late last year, 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.
The justice and Development Party (AKP), which came to power in order to end the stronghold of Erdogan urged the Kurdish conflict, which has lasted almost three dasarwarsa.
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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