On Thursday February 27, Abdullah Öcalan, founder and (imprisoned) leader of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), called on his party-movement to declare a ceasefire with the Turkish state and then disband. Öcalan’s announcement, the fruit of weeks of negotiations conducted in secret with representatives from Ankara, opens the door to a new peace process, but … Continue reading Ceasefire and the end of the PKK? Abdullah Öcalan and Turkey’s peace process