Can PKK, Turkey’s Hezbollah reconcile?
Resurging violence between two old Kurdish adversaries in Turkey’s southeast, the PKK and the Islamist Hezbollah, has generated fears of renewed Kurdish fratricide in the region.
![TURKEY-KURDS/ People gesture while others wave Kurdish flags during a gathering celebrating Newroz, which marks the arrival of spring and the new year, in Diyarbakir March 21, 2015. Jailed Kurdish rebel leader Abdullah Ocalan called on Saturday for his militant group to hold a congress on ending a three-decade insurgency against the Turkish state but stopped short of declaring an immediate halt to its armed struggle. Tens of thousands of Kurds gathered in the southeastern city of Diyarbakir to hear the message from Kurdi](/sites/default/files/styles/article_hero_medium/public/almpics/2015/06/RTR4UABS.jpg/RTR4UABS.jpg?h=f7822858&itok=DW_8Y0-w)
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