Turkey should seize offer of peace from Kurdish guerilla leader from World news: Turkey | guardian.co.uk by Ian Traynor The negotiations will be tricky, but Abdullah Öcalan has given the Turkish PM Recep Tayyip Erdogan a historic opportunity Turkey’s public enemy number one did the Turkish government a big favour on Thursday. Abdullah Öcalan, the … Read more
Öcalan?s ‘historic call’ to be released on Nevruz from Hurriyet Daily News Abdullah Öcalan, the jailed leader of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers? Party (PKK). Öcalan to deliver message on March 21: BDP from Hurriyet Daily News The jailed leader of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers? Party (PKK), Abdullah Öcalan, will announce a call Turkey set … Read more
PKK head proposes withdrawal from Turkey from Yahoo news ANKARA, Turkey , March 16 (UPI) — The head of a Kurdish separatist party has proposed completing a withdrawal of its fighters from Turkey this summer. New BDP delegation visits PKK leader Öcalan on İmralı from Hurriyet Daily News A delegation of Peace and Democracy Party … Read more
MEMO FROM DIYARBAKIR; Turkey Renews Focus on Ending Its Long Conflict With Kurds from NYT > Turkey by By TIM ARANGO; Sebnem Arsu contributed reporting from Diyarbakir, and Ceylan Yeginsu from Istanbul. One of the region?s most intractable conflicts may be nearing a close, thanks to the determination of the prime minister, yet ending violence … Read more
Imrali Transcripts | Turkish Text from Mavi Boncuk by M.A.M WARNING: THIS IS A LEAKED DOCUMENT. USE CAUTION IN DISTRIBUTION AND FURTHER INTERPRETATION. The Kurdish lawmakers that visited the island of İmralı on Saturday to meet with the jailed leader of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), Abdullah Öcalan, were accompanied by two officials from the … Read more
Kurdish peace process will start after PKK militants leaves Turkey, PM Erdoğan says from Hurriyet Daily News Any peace process in Turkey will only start after members of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers? Party (PKK) Öcalan calls for finalization of process in two to three weeks from Hurriyet Daily News The imprisoned leader of the outlawed … Read more
Turkey enters key week in Kurdish solution bid from Hurriyet Daily News Turkey is entering one of its most crucial weeks in its efforts to solve the Angry Mob Winds Up Kurdish Deputies in Sinop from Bianet :: English Dozens of angry protestors has reportedly winded up Kurdish deputies at a local guesthouse in Sinop … Read more
Turkey and its army: Erdogan and his generals by Acturca The Economist (UK) no. 950 Saturday, February 2, 2013 The once all-powerful Turkish armed forces are cowed, if not quite impotent. Imagine a country with NATO?s second-largest army that counts Iraq, Iran and Syria as neighbours and is encircled by the Aegean, the Black Sea … Read more