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It simply cannot go on like this; the devastation, destruction and all-around collapse in the Middle East cannot possibly be undone by more and yet more unilateral, unplanned , short-term tactical interventions by the West which lack any overall vision, or by betting on “first Turkey, then the Kurds, then maybe Iran.” The situation is grave enough to call for a new international concept and consensus, a multilateral initiative.

Neither that secularist woman was right in accusing me of being “all Arabs, nothing but a bunch of thieves,” nor the nationalist-conservative cab driver in his cocky know-all self-assurance that “at the end of the day a Chinaman is still nothing but a Chinaman.”

The PKK sees itself as exercising all rights and powers over the Solution Process, and it keeps emitting signals that it might renege on this act of grace at any moment. Hence it is, that whenever the Solution Process encounters any sort of problem, the first thing that the PKK can think of is resorting to arms.

Davutoğlu has completed his first round of coalition negotiations. The outcome may be summed up in the following twelve points.

Apart from or beyond just beating the [10 percent] threshold, there were two parameters for the Kurdish movement in these elections: just how much they would beat the bar by, and from what social groups these votes would come. On that basis, for Demirtaş there was one good and one bad, while for Bayık there was one bad and one good outcome. In contrast, there were two minuses for Öcalan.