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Turkey's Kurdish leaders meet jailed politician as the two sides inch toward peace

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72% Informative

Three senior figures from the Peoples’ Equality and Democracy Party met Selahattin Demirtas at Edirne prison.

Meeting took place two weeks after DEM members met Abdullah Ocalan , the imprisoned head of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party , or PKK .

The armed conflict between the PKK and the Turkish state, which started in August 1984 , has seen several failed attempts at peace.

VR Score

71

Informative language

69

Neutral language

34

Article tone

formal

Language

English

Language complexity

63

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possibly offensive

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not hateful

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not detected

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short-lived

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