US EditionKurdish Farmers Return to Mountains in Peace as PKK Tensions Calm
TURKEY, JUL 21 – New legislation aims to end the PKK's 40-year armed insurgency by transitioning to democratic politics, with parliamentary reforms and legal guarantees nearing completion, Erdoğan said.
- Speaking to reporters aboard his return flight from northern Cyprus, Erdoğan announced new legislation to support peace efforts, citing backing from jailed leader Öcalan.
- In October 2024 the peace process was rekindled when Devlet Bahçeli publicly called on Öcalan to urge the PKK to lay down its arms, and earlier this year Öcalan framed disarmament as a voluntary shift to democratic politics.
- On July 11 in Sulaymaniyah, Iraqi Kurdistan, 30 PKK fighters publicly destroyed their weapons at a symbolic ceremony presented as the first stage in ending their 40-year armed insurgency.
- On Monday, Turkish intelligence chief İbrahim Kalın met parliamentary party leaders in Ankara to brief them on the peace process, and parliamentary steps will follow shortly.
- Erdoğan said negotiations to form a parliamentary commission to oversee the peace talks and propose legal reforms are nearing completion, while the DEM Party urged clear legal guarantees and restoration of civil rights.
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Why Turkey's Kurds are tired of fighting
When the guerrilla fighters of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) began their armed struggle back in 1984, the Cold War was in its death throes. Ronald Reagan was trying to roll back the Soviet “Evil Empire”, the USSR was chaotically transitioning toward Gorbachev, and the IRA had just narrowly failed to assassinate Margaret Thatcher. Some of those Kurdish fighters have been in the mountains ever since, waging a seemingly endless campaign agains…
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Kurdish farmers return to mountains in peace as PKK tensions calm
Deep in the mountains of Turkey's southeastern Hakkari province, bordering Iran and Iraq, Kurdish livestock owners and farmers have gradually returned with their animals after decades of armed conflict between Kurdish militants and the Turkish army.
Kurdish Farmers Return To Mountains In Peace As PKK Tensions Calm
Deep in the mountains of Turkey's southeastern Hakkari province, bordering Iran and Iraq, Kurdish livestock owners and farmers have gradually returned with their animals after decades of armed conflict between Kurdish militants and the Turkish army.
Following the PKK's firing of its weapons, the more than 40-year-old terrorism problem was relegated to the dustbin of history, while a significant door was opened for the Terror-Free Turkey process. Following the organization's dissolution and firing of its weapons in Sulaymaniyah, Iraq, the key to peace and regional stability in the Middle East, especially in Turkey, was restored. As the establishment of the Terror-Free Turkey Commission in th…
Internal and Regional implications of the PKK’s demise
Since 1978, Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) under its leader Abdullah Ocalan had been operating in Turkey with a separatist Kurdish state, and later, from the 1990s, increased autonomy, cultural, and political rights. Having engaged in clashes since 1979 and full-armed insurgency against the Turkish state from 1984, engaging in asymmetric warfare, with 40,000 casualties, despite Ocalan's imprisonment since 1999. By Ahsan AliWith mainly operating f…
In south-eastern Turkey, the Kurdish shepherds of Hakkari gradually resume the path of the high plateaus, long barred from access because of the conflict between the Turkish army and the PKK. The symbolic ceremony for the deposit of weapons by PKK fighters marks a desire to calm down, even though the military presence remains strong in the region. Despite a calmer atmosphere, tensions persist and pastoral life, harsh and demanding, seems increas…
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