Turkish Digest Advertising Rates

Annual Advertising options

Tuesday, November 11, 2014

The Problem With Turkey's PKK Peace Process

The Problem With Turkey's PKK Peace Process
By Rusen Cakir
AL Monitor
Posted 2014-11-11 02:10 GMT

Flags with the portrait of Abdullah Ocalan, one of the founding members of the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), are carried during a protest by Kurds against Islamic State militant attacks on Syrian Kurds, in Istanbul, Sept. 21, 2014 (photo: REUTERS/Murad Sezer).
There is definitely a blockage in the solution process with Kurds. If we are sincere and want the solution process to become a lasting solution to the Kurdish problem that is the "mother of all problems in Turkey," then we have to identify the causes of the delays and face the realities. Here are the realities I think we have to deal with:

More:The Problem With Turkey's PKK Peace Process