Turkey's solution process, aimed at ending the decades-old conflict with the outlawed PKK, has proved fruitful, with hundreds of the organization's terrorists surrendering to security forces since 2012 Anadolu Agency reported
According to a compilation of the AA's news, based on interior ministry reports, a total of 988 Kurdistan Workers' Party, or PKK, fighters surrendered between 2012 and 2015.
In 2012, 150 terrorists surrendered. This number increased to 233 with the country's historic solution process that launched in 2013.
The reports said a total of 500 PKK fighters laid down their arms and surrendered to the Turkish security forces in 2014 and 105 more fighters surrendered in the first three months of 2015.
The Turkish government launched an initiative in early 2013 publicly known as the "solution process" to end the decades-old conflict with the outlawed PKK, a dispute which has claimed the lives of more than 40,000 people in almost 40 years.
The PKK is listed as a terrorist group by Turkey as well as by the U.S. and the European Union.