First the PKK has to silence its guns
It is unclear how far this escalation of attacks and ambushes can go, and how many more lives it can claim. It has to stop. The PKK must silence its guns immediately. If it does so, an atmosphere suitable to talks may be revived. It may be possible to return to the negotiation table.
To make Cizre into another Kobane
Having supported and cleared the way for the PKK at Kobane, the West is now playing it as a “terror card” against Turkey. Kobane appears to have served as a laboratory for adapting the PKK to this objective.
The West’s critical support for Erdoğan
We were in Şanlıurfa earlier this month as a part of a Center for Public Policy and Democracy Studies (PODEM) project. This historic city,...
The PKK’s Cizre plan
It has fallen to Mayor Leyla İmret to explain the aims and objectives of the armed militants that established themselves in Cizre: “We are waging a civil war in Cizre against Turkey.” In her statement to the British media, she defines Cizre as “the focal point of the civil war [they] have launched against Turkey.”
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Do not kill in my name
The hurt of losing these martyrs and the identity of the killers were suddenly relegated to the background. Even opposition leader Kılıçdaroğlu cited not the PKK but Erdoğan by name while condemning the attack.