Baku-APA. The outlawed Kurdish Workers' Party ( PKK) said Tuesday that Turkish army's military activity endangered an agreed pullout process of the group, APA reports quoting Turkish media.
On the eve of PKK's withdrawal from the Turkish territories, the group said in a statement that "the intensifying construction of dams and military checkpoints, constant reconnaissance activity of unmanned aerial vehicles and large-scale military movements would delay the withdrawal process and lay the ground for provocations."
"For an instant pullout of our troops, it's important to stop these sorts of activities," the PKK said.
Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan reiterated Tuesday that the PKK members should lay down their arms before they leave Turkey, while Murat Karayilan, leader of PKK's armed wing, said that his group would lay down arms after they see "democratization steps of the government."
In March, Karayilan ordered PKK members to begin withdrawing to their bases in northern Iraq as part of a peace process to end three decades of Kurdish insurgency which claimed nearly 40,000 lives.
From May 8, nearly 1,500 PKK members are expected to leave Turkey gradually in three to four months.
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