Locked in a fateful embrace: Turkey's PM and his Kurdish prisoner
Catastrophes within Turkey and across its borders are pushing Erdogan and Öcalan towards peace. Will they grab it?
A couple of hours south of the marinas of Istanbul in the middle of the Sea of Marmara sits Imrali island, a no-go area sealed off by the Turkish state. The island is Turkey's most high-security prison – its the equivalent of Alcatraz or Robben Island in South Africa – adapted to incarcerate one man, Abdullah Öcalan, the founder of the Kurdistan Workers' party (PKK) – an armed group of Kurdish fighters engaged in an insurrection against the Turkish state for 30 years.
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