Mr. President, Please Don't Let Erdogan Play America, Too
Posted: 05/02/2013 12:47 pm
WASHINGTON--For a man who has spent ten of the past 14 years as the only inmate of a Turkish island prison on the Sea of Marmara, Abdullah Öcalan knows how to make his voice heard. Last month, the longtime leader of Turkey's outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) had a message read to a million Kurds gathered in southeastern Turkey, announcing that the moment had come to end his Party's 29-year war against Turkey. It was time, he said of the conflict that has claimed 40,000 lives, for "the guns to fall silent and for ideas to speak;" for Turks and Kurds to "unite under the banner of Islam;" to work together toward "a new Turkey."
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