ISTANBUL (Reuters) - A surge in Kurdish militant activity in southeast Turkey is fuelling fears that a peace process with Ankara could unravel, complicating the government's task of enacting reforms without inflaming nationalist sentiment.
Jailed Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) leader Abdullah Ocalan and Ankara launched peace talks last October with the goal of ending a conflict which has killed 40,000 people in three decades and stunted the mainly Kurdish southeast's development.
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