Who Killed the Peace Process in Turkey?
By DAVID ROMANO 33 minutes ago
Ankara’s resumption of its war against the PKK (Kurdistan Workers’ Party) last week raises some important questions. Ruling AK Party officials and Ankara’s supporters cast the arrests of PKK suspects and the bombardment of PKK bases as an act of self-defense on Turkey’s part, carried out against an organization on the same terror lists as the Islamic State. They cited in particular the PKK’s claim of responsibility for the killing of two Turkish policemen (who the PKK claimed collaborated with the suicide bomber in Suruc a few weeks ago), arguing that the arrests and bombings were in response to this.
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