TURKEY'S parliament has passed a law allowing defendants to speak Kurdish in court, addressing a key demand of Kurdish politicians as Ankara seeks to advance peace talks with the jailed rebel leader of a 28-year-old insurgency.
Kurdish and nationalist deputies nearly came to blows during a tense debate over a reform aimed at breaking a deadlock in trials of hundreds of people accused of links to the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) militant group.
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