Can lasting peace justify conditional pardons for militants who genuinely lay down their weapons?
CIVIC LANE
In Turkey President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has signed landmark legislation allowing conditional legal relief for potentially thousands of PKK militants as part of an effort to end the decades-long conflict. Implementation is conditional on verified disarmament and dissolution of the organization, while top figures and some serious offenders are excluded. Supporters see a historic opportunity to end a conflict that has killed tens of thousands. Veterans and families of victims have expressed anger at the prospect of former militants returning to ordinary life. It creates one of the clearest peace-versus-justice dilemmas currently available for polling anywhere in Europe.