A precious chance to end Turkey’s conflict with the Kurds
Hugh Pope
Turkey’s nine-year-old peace process between the Turkish government and the insurgents of the Kurdistan Workers party (PKK) is growing ever more fragile. Amid mounting violence in the country’s southeast, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is hardening his rhetoric against the PKK. At the same time, Ankara is showing enough ambivalence towards the jihadis of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (Isis), which is fighting the PKK’s Syrian Kurdish sister organisation, to convince the Kurds that the two are co-operating against them.
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