Turkish Reforms for Kurdish Minority

Reuters is reporting that Turkey has laid out a reform plan to expand Kurdish rights, including the creation of an independent body to investigate cases of torture and allowing Kurds to campaign and broadcast in Kurdish.  The main opposition party, the Republican People’s Party (CHP), walked out of parliament in response to the legislation, which aims to disarm the Kurdish PKK.  According to the New York Times this new plan comes a year after “Parliament approved private Kurdish language courses and a public television channel in Kurdish, as part of what it called a democracy package.”