The jailed founder and leader of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party, or PKK, calls on the group to disband.
That follows four decades of fighting with Turkiye, costing 40,000 lives.
So, why is this coming now and what impact could it have on Turkiye – and the region?
Presenter: Nick Clark
Guests:
Omer Ozkizilcik – Non-resident fellow at the Atlantic Council’s Middle East Program and director of Turkish studies at the Omran Center for Strategic Studies
HA Hellyer – Senior fellow in geopolitics, international security and Middle East studies at the Royal United Services Institute, a defence and security think tank
Mohammed Salih – Non-resident senior fellow at the Foreign Policy Research Institute and Kurdish affairs specialist