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President Erdogan will have the political circumstances favorable to proceed with reconciliation with the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) if his strategy to split the Republican People's Party (CHP) or plunge it into an ongoing internal battle is successful. ... ... economic, and security chaos. The Nationalist Movement Party (MHP), his partner, is currently prioritizing reconciliation with the Kurds and is therefore waiting the situation out. Yet there is still no guarantee that the MHP could undermine President Erdogan's ...
... identity of the transitional government, and Israel's strong drive for its division. Therefore, regardless of whether Syria stays unaltered or is split, Ankara's policy to strengthen its ties with the Kurds in Syria—through the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) and Turkish Kurds—is crucial. This also clarifies the indications given by certain Turkish officials to capitalize on the attitudes of Syria's various religious communities.
The Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) leader, Devlet Bahceli, was
cited
in July, stating ...
Challenges and Prospects of Disbandment
The
disbandment
of the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) on May 12 raised questions about
Turkey's military position
in the Iraqi Kurdistan Region going forward. Analysts
questioned
if PKK members in Iraq's mountainous north will
follow
their central leadership's decision to disband the group. The PKK's ...
... significant long-term gain if the Turkish operation is successfully conducted
On August 4, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan
declared in a speech
during an opening ceremony that Turkey will launch a military operation in Syria’s terrorist PKK/YPG-occupied eastern Euphrates region. After the official declaration of the upcoming operation, there occurred the question of “how will it affect the bilateral relations between Russia and Turkey?” There will be no negative repercussion of the ...
... pursuing several objectives; primary among them is clearing the Afrin region of the PYD armed groups who pose a direct threat to Turkey’s national security due to their connection to the Turkey-based terrorist organization Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK, Kurdish: Partiya Karkerên Kurdistanê).
Despite its efforts to explain to the international community the underlying motives behind the deployment of troops on Syrian soil, the Turkish government has not received messages of solidarity, either from ...
... Ankara and Kurdish extremists had been voluntarily engaged in a several-years-long truce and the so-called
problem solving process
. Turkish intelligence had been in secret negotiations in Oslo with representatives of the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), whose leader Abdullah Öcalan had been praised by the pro-government politicians as the leader of the Kurds although the terrorists represent only a fraction of the Kurdish people. In those days, everyone could see the advisers of President Recep Erdogan eagerly photographed with the PKK envoys in the Dolmabahce Palace.
Ankara seems to lack any sort of ...
