What happened this morning is quite extraordinary.
The imprisoned leader of the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK),
Abdullah Öcalan, released a message calling for peace in southeast Turkey.
Tens of thousands of people turned out in Diyarbakır to hear
it.
The message, to mark the Kurdish new year of Nowruz, was
read out in Kurdish and Turkish.
The PKK leader called for his organisation's armed militants
to retreat across the border back into northern Iraq. He did not ask them to
disarm.
