Turkey’s Kurds
Put the weapon down
A call for peace by the PKK’s leader could mean a new deal for Turkey
Mar 7th 2015 | ANKARA AND DIYARBAKIR | From the print edition
FOR decades Turkish warplanes rained bombs on the snow-capped Qandil mountains in northern Iraq to flush out rebels from the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), who have been fighting for Kurdish self-rule inside Turkey since 1984. Now Turkey is pondering operations of a different kind. “If all goes to plan we will explore for oil in Qandil,” declares Taner Yildiz, the country’s oil minister.
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