Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan in connection with the Nowruz holiday, hoped for a new stage in the settlement of the Kurdish issue.
"I believe that our dreams will blossom with the spring, we will achieve the desired result (in the Kurdish settlement) and the Nowruz holiday will be an occasion for the opening of a new era. I wish that this wonderful holiday, which in 2010 was recognized by the UN world community, brings peace and love to humanity," Erdogan said in a statement posted on his official website, RIA Novosti reports.
It is expected that on the occasion of Nowruz a statement by the leader of the banned Kurdistan Workers' Party of Turkey, Abdullah Ocalan, will be made public, in which he may call on his supporters to lay down their arms.
