MESOP : PEACE PROCESS ? – ONLY HAKAN FIDAN & APO KNOW ABOUT – A PURE INTELLIGENCE STORY

The “serious things” Atalay mentioned include the Aug. 14 meeting that National Intelligence Organization (MIT) chief Hakan Fidan had after a long hiatus with Ocalan on the prison island of Imrali, where the PKK leader is serving a life sentence. According to the Cumhuriyet daily, the unrest in Lice prompted Fidan to bring the meeting forward and give Ocalan assurances that “Erdogan will continue to be the chief supervisor of the process after he assumes the presidential office.”

The assurances are widely interpreted to mean that the process will keep going regardless of who forms the government in the wake of Erdogan’s move to the presidency. Fidan, a key figure in the peace process, is expected to become foreign minister to replace Ahmet Davutoglu, who was officially nominated as the new prime minister of Turkey by Erdogan on Aug. 21. On Aug. 15, following his meeting with Fidan, Ocalan was paid a visit by the HDP delegation, through which he conveyed the following message: “A 30-year war is in a phase of conclusion through a grand democratic negotiation.”
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