As a group of Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) is expected to cross the Turkish border in a bid to support Turkey’s Kurdish initiative, another group of Iraqi Kurdish intellectuals are also alleged to come onto the Turkish border to support the PKK’s surrender as a step to a lasting peace.

Reuters reported from PKK’s foreign affairs department that “eight fighters from a PKK camp in the Kandil Mountains in northern Iraq will cross the border to Turkey on the wishes of imprisoned PKK leader Abdullah Ocalan.”

The intellectuals and journalists are largely based in Sulaymaniyah, considered as the cultural center of Kurdistan.

Aso Abdul-Latif, representative of the group, told Awene website “we will support this attempt taken by the PKK. We prefer a thousand-hour long dialogue to a minute-long war.”