The agreement between Syria and Turkey, which enables mutual restitution of arrested PKK (Kurdistan Workers’ Party) in both countries, has been approved and became law in Turkish Assembly.

According to the agreement signed during the meetings at Ministers level last month in Syria, the Syrian PKK members in Turkey will be able to serve their sentence in Syria, if they want. The same case is valid for the Turkish PKK members in Syria.

The articles of the agreement between Turkey and Syria are as follows;

-A prisoner at one side can be transferred to the other country to serve his sentence.

-Transferring can be demanded by both countries.

-Transferring will be performed if the sentence is definitive, if the prisoner has at least one year imprisonment to serve and if the main acts and omissions of the sentence conform to the judicial system of the other country.

-The rest of the execution will be dependent on the domestic law of the other country.

-Both countries will be able to grant general amnesty or pardon in accordance with their own law and legislation of the other country and will be able to mitigate the sentence.

-The agreement will include all sentences given before and after its closing.

It attracts attention that the enactment of the agreement came after the meeting of Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoðan and Syria President Beþar Esad last month concerning the amnesty subject.