Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan ruled out on Sunday a general amnesty for Kurdish rebels amid renewed peace talks between the country's secret services and jailed Kurdish leader Abdullah Ocalan.

"We are not entitled to pardon murderers. We will not interfere in such a thing," Erdogan was quoted as saying by theAnatolianews agency.

Turkey's spy agency resumed negotiations with Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) leader Ocalan late last year with an ultimate goal of disarming the rebel movement, which is branded as a terrorist group byTurkeyand its Western allies.



Soran Ali