Why de-escalation of Ankara-PKK clashes doesn’t mean path to peace
The Turkish government has lowered the temperature of the war against the PKK because of the prevailing chaos in the army, police and intelligence services, but this is not a step toward peace.
For the past few years, both the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) and the pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) have been warning about the Gulen movement supporters infiltrating the police and the army. After the July 15 coup attempt, the relevant question is whether the government, while weeding out the Gulenists, can return to the peace table with the Kurds. There are some signs that give hope to such an eventuality.
It is said that some of the key coup plotters were the generals who were commanding operations against the PKK.
The process for removing immunity from parliamentarians, mostly HDP deputies, was postponed.
Minister of Energy Berat Albayrak said the Roboski file on the killing of 34 villagers in 2011 by the Turkish air force will be reopened. Huseyin Erten, the former commander of the Roboski area, was detained in the coup plot investigations.
