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Turkey and the Kurdish PKK: 40 years of conflict

Julia Hahn in Istanbul, Turkey
February 27, 2025

Signs suggest that Turkey may release its top state enemy, Abdullah Öcalan, the founder of the Kurdistan Workers' Party, from jail. Why is Turkey seeking peace now with the decades-long Kurdish insurgency that claimed tens of thousands of lives?

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