Tuesday, March 12, 2013

Commentary: Is Turkey Ready for a Kurdish Peace? | The National Interest

Is Turkey Ready for a Kurdish Peace?

March 12, 2013

Abdullah Ocalan, the imprisoned leader of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), which has waged a 28-year war against the Turkish state, is an unlikely candidate for peacemaker. Yet recently he has become Ankara’s key ally in its efforts to end the three-decade-old armed struggle.

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