"The Taliban in Turkey and the PKK
Monday, April 18, 2011
SEMİH İDİZ
Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s chief foreign policy advisor İbrahim Kalın confirmed last week that talks are underway for the Afghan Taliban to open a political office in Istanbul. There appears to even be a candidate to head the office. The name being bandied around is the Taliban’s former governor of Herat province, Mullah Hairullah Hairhva, who is said to currently be in U.S. captivity in Guantanamo, where he apparently has been since 2002."
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