During a meeting on the 3rd January at the Fifth Annual Ambassadors Conference held in Ankara, the Undersecretary of the National Intelligence Organization MÏT Hakan Fidan is quoted as saying that “Imrali is one of the actors in this process. What needs to...
Talks which started at the beginning of 2009 between the Turkish Government and the PKK leader Abdullah Öcalan have broken down for reasons insignificant to the conflict itself. In our opinion a dialogue needs to be reopened. For any talks to succeed it has to be...
A protester at the funeral of Vedat Kutluca, killed by Kurdish rebels. For Turkey, independence would deter PKK insurgents. Photograph: Adem Altan/AFP/Getty I was surprised to read an article in the Baghdad newspaper al-Sabah...
Öcalan informed the Kurdish parliamentarians for the ongoing dialogue process between Turkey and the Kurds and warned both sides to avoid provocations and to build a constructive spirit for solution of the Kurdish conflict. Öcalan has been isolated from his...
The renewal of talks between the parties and a genuine will from both sides to seek a peaceful solution to the problems can pave the road to peace and a democratic solution to the Kurdish problem in Turkey along the lines first adumbrated by Nobel Peace Prize Laureate...
Pro-Kurdish Peace and Democracy Party (BDP) deputy Ayla Akat Ata and prominent Kurdish politician Ahmet Turk went with a lawyer to Imrali, where Ocalan has been held in virtual isolation since his capture in 1999, a Kurdish lawmaker said. The meeting came days after...
