Turkey Accused of Targeting Uyghur Refugees as Ties with China Improve: HRW - Turkish Minute

Turkey plans individualized legal steps for PKK militants under proposed ‘opportunity law’ - Stockholm Center for Freedom

The Turkish government is preparing individualized legal measures for members of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), including those currently in prison and those based in PKK camps outside Turkey, as part of ongoing peace talks, Turkish Minute reported, citing the Independent’s Turkish news website. The PKK announced its decision to lay down arms and dissolve itself in May in line with a call from its jailed leader Abdullah Öcalan in F…

With peace talks stalled, Ankara weighs military action in Syria - Turkish Minute

In recent months, renewed talk of peace in Turkey’s decades-long Kurdish conflict has been marked by growing ambiguity. According to a recent academic analysis by political scientist Gabriele Leone from the University of Lapland in Finland, jailed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) leader Abdullah Öcalan’s latest call for a ceasefire should be understood less as a concrete plan for resolving the conflict and more as a symbolic intervention. It is an