The declaration was the culmination of seven months of work to renew long-stalled talks that began in October when Ankara offered Ocalan an unexpected olive branch.
The news won a cautious welcome on the streets of Diyarbakir, the main city in Turkey’s Kurdish-majority southeast, where locals have seen repeated efforts to end the violence come to nothing.
“We want this process to move forward and not be left unfinished. They shouldn’t deceive the Kurds as they did before. We really want peace,” 60-year-old worker Fahri Savas told AFP.
There was a similar sentiment in Iraqi Kurdistan’s Erbil, where Khaled Mohammed, 55, warned: “We only support the peace process if it is serious and accompanied by international guarantees.”
Remains to be seen how genuine Erdogan is (probably not very much).
Wow, good news. How novel.
are you sure it’s good news?
They say they’re disbanding because they feel that the issue is now solvable via domestic politics. That seems like a good thing to me
Exactly. Even an attempt at that is good news after decades of warfare.
what makes you think that this is related to anarchism?
Because it is. The PKK has [now had] promoted democratic confederalism for over a decade, an anarchism-adjacent governance model.
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in your dreams maybe
Shit, you got me. I’ve been owned.
pkk is often discussed in anarchist circles as a model for armed resistance.
pkk is often discussed in anarchist circles as a model for armed resistance.
No it isn’t - you are thinking about Rojava, which is linked to the PKK.
yes, i’ve heard/read “municipalists” talk/write about Rojava but no anarchist would think of archist authoritarian killers like PKK as a model (unless they’re trying to misinform)
yes, i’ve heard/read “municipalists” talk/write about Rojava
Plenty of anarchists have discussed Rojava, not just “municipalists” (whatever that might be). Anarchists have even died fighting in Rojava.
killers like PKK
What? Anarchists have problems with killing now?
What? Anarchists have problems with killing now?
yes, at least one of them.
there are many anarchisms. Some never did put their beliefs above lives.
Some never did put their beliefs above lives.
Then your belief isn’t worth shit.
The world is full of people who can’t agree on even the simplest things. When they used violence to “convince” people to live according to their beliefs, the result was always nothing but suffering.
your language reflects your vulgarity. You already use verbal violence just because i disagree with you on an online forum.
i’m sorry (not really) to read that even you’re not sure about what you believe. Violence is a sign of frustration.
Grifting US funding is a model?
Why wouldn’t it be?
