Tuesday, April 05, 2016

Why Erdogan can't end PKK war - Al-Monitor: the Pulse of the Middle East

Why Erdogan can't end PKK war

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's months-long war against the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) has become unbearably destructive and deadly, and the violence is threatening to spill over into western Turkey. The general picture emerging is that the PKK cannot be eliminated militarily and no negotiated settlement with the organization is foreseeable.

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