On 19 October 2009, twenty-six Turkish Kurds, political refugees in Iraq, plus eight PKK (Kurdish Workers' Party) members from Qandil mountain region crossed the border into Turkey calling for a democratic, negotiated end to the conflict between the Turkish government and the PKK, which would include a respect for their Kurdish identity in Turkey.  Two of the marching refugees are acquaintances of the Christian Peacemaker Team (CPT) in Iraq.  They are members of the "Mothers for Peace" from the refugee camp in Makmur, south of Erbil.