Turkey’s PKK peace law brings hope to mothers, anguish to veterans

Longing to be reunited with her son, Ayten Elhaman was glued to the television all day as Turkey’s parliament debated and passed a law this week enabling Kurdish militants to return home under a peace process to end their decades-old insurgency.

She recalled how Bayram had left his job in a bakery one morning nine years ago to join the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) in a conflict with NATO-member Turkey that has killed tens of thousands....