Breakthrough. A delegation from Turkey’s pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Equality and Democracy Party was permitted to meet with Abdullah Ocalan, the imprisoned leader of Turkey’s banned Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), after a 4.5-year hiatus. Ocalan signaled a willingness to call for militants to disarm, a potential breakthrough in Turkey’s political process. The meeting followed statements by Devlet […]
Daily Memo: Kurds Nearing Political Breakthrough in Turkey
In northern Syria, on the other hand, Kurdish forces asked Moscow to mediate between them and Ankara.
