President of the Iraqi Kurdish Regional Government Masoud Barzani greets with Kurdish people in Diyarbakir, Turkey, Nov. 16, 2013. Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan held talks here with the visiting Iraqi Kurdish leader in a bid to boost the ongoing settlement process which aims to end the decades long Kurdish conflict in Diyarbakir. (Xinhua/Mustafa Kaya)

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ANKARA, Nov. 16 (Xinhua) -- Iraq's Kurdish leader on Saturday pledged here support for Turkey's peace process with the Kurdish Workers Party (PKK), an outlawed group that only entered ceasefire with Ankara after 30 years of conflicts.

"Long live the brotherhood of Turks and Kurds," Massoud Barzani, leader of northern Iraq's Kurdish autonomous government, told thousands of ethnic Kurds in Turkey's southeastern Diyarbakir province.  Full story