The Kurdish rebel PKK has halted the withdrawal of its armed cadres from Turkey according to a website linked to the militants.
The PKK blamed Turkey for not moving towards “democratisation and the resolution of the Kurdish problem”.
Earlier this year the Turkish government and the PKK agreed a deal which would see the PKK pull back its troops to Kurdistan in Iraq and the government to improve Kurdish rights.
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