Turkey urged at Nato meeting not to abandon Kurdish peace process

President Erdoğan is pushed to adopt proportionate military response hours after he said it was impossible to continue process

Flags outside the Nato HQ in Brussels. Ambassadors met for an emergency session on Tuesday to gauge the threat Isis poses to Turkey. Photograph: Geert Vanden Wijngaert/AP

Ewen MacAskill Defence and security correspondent-Tuesday 28 July 2015
The Turkish government has been pressed at a special Nato meeting to adopt a proportionate response towards Kurdish militants and not abandon the increasingly fragile peace process.

The Nato conference, held on Tuesday at the request of Turkey, came only hours after Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, the Turkish president, said he could not continue a peace process with Kurdish militants and urged parliament to strip politicians with links to “terrorist groups” of their immunity from prosecution.

Turkey Urged at Nato Meeting Not to Abandon Kurdish Peace Process by Thavam Ratna