PKK Peace Deal Gives Rise To Turkish Separatism
By: Semih Idiz for Al-Monitor Turkey Pulse Posted on April 26.
The announcement by the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) that it will pull thousands of its militants out of Turkey and into northern Iraq beginning May 8, under a deal worked out with the Turkish government, will boost Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan's popularity at home, regardless of nationalist accusations that he is negotiating in Turkey's name with a terrorist organization.
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