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Cuma Çiçek on PKK disarmament and the future of Turkey's Kurdish issue
Turkey Book Talk
34 minutes 9 seconds
8 months ago
Cuma Çiçek on PKK disarmament and the future of Turkey's Kurdish issue
Cuma Çiçek, author of “The Kurds of Turkey: National, Religious and Economic Identities” (IB Tauris), on the dynamics behind Ankara’s latest push to put an end to over four decades of the PKK’s insurgency.
The conversation discusses jailed PKK leader Abdullah Ocalan’s call for the group’s disarmament, the implications for affiliated forces in Iraq and Syria, and what it means for Turkish politics.
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Turkey Book Talk
Conversations with journalists, academics and writers on Turkey and its region. New episode every two weeks.
