Kurdish Politician Promises to Work on Disarming PKK if Erdogan Loses

Diyarbakir, Turkey / washington - A prominent Kurdish leader has added a new wrinkle to Turkey's tense election campaign from his prison cell, suggesting the defeat of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan could open the door to a resolution of the nation's decades-old struggle against a Kurdish militant group.

Selahattin Demirtas, the former co-leader of Turkey's pro-Kurdish Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP), is pledging