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Saturday, January 12, 2013

Talks With Ocalan Offer Slim Hope for Turkey-PKK Deal - Al-Monitor: the Pulse of the Middle East

Talks With Ocalan Offer Slim Hope for Turkey-PKK Deal

By: Tulin Daloglu for Al-Monitor Turkey Pulse. posted on January 11.

In attempts to find a solution to Turkey’s long-lasting Kurdish issue, Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan has officially approved “talks” with Abdullah Ocalan, the imprisoned leader of the PKK. Hakan Fidan, head of the Turkish National Intelligence Organization and a close confidante of Erdogan, is the point man in these “talks.”

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