Kurdish New Year’s Resolutions
By ANDREW FINKEL
ISTANBUL — Last Thursday was the start of the Kurdish New Year and, if all goes according to plan, the advent of a new era in Turkey’s relationship with its own Kurdish population. In Diyarbakir, the largest city in southeastern Turkey, a few hundred thousand people converged to listen to a proclamation, read — first in Turkish, then in Kurdish — on behalf of Abdullah Ocalan, the imprisoned founder of the Kurdistan Workers Party, also known as P.K.K.
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