NORTH KURDISTAN (TURKEY) ELECTION PREPARATIONS : ERDOGAN PRO ÖCALAN / ÖCALAN PRO ERDOGAN
… it’s not the institutionalization of negotiations exclusively with democratically legitimized parties – but in the first line with a leader arrested (MESOP)
Turkish Government Seeks to Advance Talks With Kurds Ahead of Elections
By Ayla Albayrak – Foreign Policy – June 27, 2014- ISTANBUL—Turkey’s government on Thursday took its first concrete step in a two-year effort to secure peace with its restive Kurdish population, seeking to advance talks ahead of presidential elections in August. The move also comes as Turkey courts Northern Iraq’s semiautonomous Kurdistan Regional Government, or KRG, which stands to increase its power as Islamist insurgents march on the embattled central government in Baghdad. KRG… Read more: http://online.wsj.com/articles/turkish-government-seeks-to-advance-talks-with-kurds-ahead-of-elections-1403787599