Reforms to prevent human rights abuses and broaden language rights for Kurdish citizens are a “historical opportunity” to solve one of Turkey’s chronic problems, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, the prime minister, told a mutinous parliament on Friday.
He is hoping the reforms will persuade rebels from the separatist Kurdistan Workers’ party (PKK) to end a 25-year insurgency, which has claimed more than 40,000 lives and exacerbated poverty in Turkey’s mainly Kurdish south-east.
