I have always doubted whether the Turkish government has a comprehensive peace plan with the PKK, the outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party, whose war with the state has claimed more than 40,000 lives in the past three decades. After reading some statements of Murat Karayilan, acting leader of the PKK on Kandil Mountain in Northern Iraq, my curiosity peaked. Karayilan, in his statement published by T24 news portal on March 24, said, “They do not know if the government has a project for the solution.” Yet still, he also said that they will follow the call of Abdullah Ocalan, imprisoned leader of the PKK, and they will leave the country.
Karayilan was unsure of the process, for neither government nor Abdullah Ocalan explained any comprehensive road map leading to the peace. We can detect some elements from various statements of the parties but no one knows how Turkey will complete this process.
