The Kurdish Workers' Party (PKK) of Turkey has announce its withdraw from the state to Northern Iraq. The withdrawal is planned to occur by the 8th of May.
Tensions have been high, prior to the announcement and in regard to how the withdrawal will occur with limited confrontations.
Shown in the map above, the Kurdish nation spans Turkey, Iran, Iraq, and Syria as well as a small region of Armenia. Kurds face discrimination in Turkey, and there have been requests for a Kurdish state for which hope was reignited when the United States forcibly changed the Iraqi leadership.
The European Union has pressured Turkey into more moderate actions toward the PKK and Kurdish population during Turkey's bids for membership.
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