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The Economist
The Economist
31 Oct 2024


NextImg:Turkey could soon strike a historic peace deal with the Kurds
Europe | The long road to peace

Turkey could soon strike a historic peace deal with the Kurds

But many pitfalls lie ahead

|ISTANBUL

DEVLET BAHCELI, the leader of Turkey’s biggest nationalist party, has made a career out of opposing concessions to the country’s 15m-strong Kurdish minority. The only solution to Turkey’s conflict with armed Kurdish separatists, he has long argued, is to pound them into the ground. Since 2016, when Mr Bahceli and his Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) threw their weight behind Turkey’s president, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, he has been able to put his convictions to work. On his watch, the government unleashed armed offensives against the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) at home and abroad. Thousands of Kurdish politicians and activists ended up behind bars.

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