Has the Kurdish PKK given up on its dream of a homeland?

After decades of equipped struggle, fighters from the Kurdistan Workers’ Party, oregon PKK, are withdrawing from Turkiye and moving to bluish Iraq.

The struggle betwixt the PKK and Turkish forces has killed much than 40,000 radical successful 4 decades.

The withdrawal is the latest measurement successful an statement with the Turkish state, which the radical says volition spot it displacement from equipped rebellion to antiauthoritarian politics.

So, volition Ankara instrumentality to its extremity of the bargain and let the PKK to prosecute successful civilian society?

And is Kurdish autonomy present conscionable a tube dream?

Presenter: Adrian Finighan

Guests:

Hiwa Osman – erstwhile advisor to Iraqi President Jalal Talabani

Mohammed D Salih – non-resident elder chap astatine the Foreign Policy Research Institute

Hisyar Ozsoy – erstwhile lawman president of the Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP)