Turkey's "Terror-Free" Initiative: A Complex Geopolitical Landscape

... which seeks to find a legal and constitutional approach for the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) to disband and lay down its arsenal. Last October, PKK leader Abdullah Ocalan backed this plan, which was promoted by Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) leader Devlet Bahceli. The plan has been approved by President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. A parliamentary committee on the subject convened for its inaugural session on August 5 th with a mandate to recommend to parliament amendments to the law and constitution that ...