Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan has ruled out a general amnesty for Kurdish militants but said intelligence agents would continue talking to the rebels' jailed leader in a bid to end a near three-decade insurgency.
Mr Erdogan's chief adviser said last week that Turkish officials had been discussing disarmament with the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) and on Thursday two Kurdish lawmakers paid a rare visit to the militant group's leader in his island prison.
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