Barzani’s Diyarbakır visit and a renaissance for all Kurds
Some walls are being pulled down while some others are being built in the Kurdish context. A visit from the leader of the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG), Masoud Barzani, to Diyarbakır on Saturday and his joint public address with Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan marked a breakthrough for Turkey and the Kurds in the region. Another wall was pulled down this weekend when Erdoğan made his first visit to a member of the BDP (the Peace and Democracy Party), Osman Baydemir, the mayor of Diyarbakır. This was the first time that he engaged in dialogue with politicians from Kurdish political parties.
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