Türkiye’s PKK deal may benefit Erdogan at home and abroad

By seeking a peace agreement with Kurdish militants, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan from Turkey is trying to be intense that is not intended to end 40 years of violent rebellion inside Turkey, but he is imagining an ambitious change throughout the region.

the Call Thursday by Abdullah OaklanAsli Idinas, a senior colleague at the Brookings Foundation in Washington, DC, said that the prison leader of the Kurdistan Labor Party, or the PKK, in order to put their arms to follow the most famous negotiations and was one of the colleagues of the Brookings Foundation in Washington, DC.

At home, Mr. Erdogan can gain the Kurdish support he needs constitutional changes to give the Turkish leader – who stabilizes his strength for more than 20 years – another run in the presidency.

Beyond that, ending the conflict with the Kurdish groups that ranged through parts of Iraq, Syria and Turkey will release Türkiye and its army from a huge burden. If the Kurds in neighboring Syria followed him, then he has the ability to calm the long -term regional conflict and help stabilize an ally government in Damascus.

“This is a historical invitation,” Ms. Idintas said about the resumption of Mr. Oaklan. She said that the proposal “has a great relationship with geopolitical pressure in the Turkish neighborhood, which creates a sense of insecurity for both Turks and Kurds.”

“It seems that the Trump administration’s chaotic start and uncertainty about the future of Syria has made it clear that it needs to be unified on the internal front,” added Ms. Idintapas.

She said that the Armed Sayyid Oaklan group, the PKK, “will surely” respond to its attractiveness. Since an attempt to fight urban battles in the eastern Turkish cities in 2015, she has suffered a large number of strongholds in the mountainous areas of Iraq.

But the Kurdish forces in Syria, known as the Syrian Democratic Forces, or SDF, have been strengthened by training and equipment from the Pentagon, where they joined the United States in their operations against the Islamic State in Syria.

Türkiye has always considered a terrorist threat aimed at undermining security along its southern border.

Türkiye has close ties with the rebel movement, Tarr al -Sham, which took control of Syria in December after the dictator’s overthrow, Bashar al -Assad. Turkish officials have made clear that removing or alleviating the Kurdish threat imagined on its borders is a priority in its dealings with the new government in Damascus.

Ms. Idintepas said Malzlum Abd, the Kurdish leader of SDF, is a close follower of Mr. Oaklan, and his call is likely to respond to democratic change.

Mr. Abd said, in comments during a press conference on the Internet on Thursday, that Mr. Oaklan informed him of the decision to put weapons in a message and emphasized the value of peace and stability for the entire region.

Mr. Abdi welcomed the initiative, saying that it would solve the security concerns of Turkey and reduce the situation for his private forces in Syria. He said that his priority was his own negotiations with the new government in Damascus.

The idea of ​​the peace agreement was Fall for the first time in October Through a close political ally of Mr. Erdogan, national politician Devlit Bahsali.

Mr. Erdogan publicly supported peace negotiations with the Kurds a decade ago before they disastrously collapsed with the outbreak of the bad fighting in the Kurdish cities. Perhaps because of this and the uncertainty of the uncertainty about whether the plan will stick, it has been with a little torment of peace initiatives this time. He neither interacted nor any of his government with the invitation of Mr. Oaklan on Thursday.

But his ambitions in the region and beyond are known. After having acquired more than three million Syrian refugees since the 2011 Arab Spring uprising, he was a strong supporter of rebel groups who were fighting against the Bashar al -Assad regime, and still has close relations with those groups that are now in the government.

At the same time, he expanded Türkiye’s diplomatic access to Africa and offered Syrian military training assistance to its air support through the proposal to put the Turkish Air Force units in the Syrian bases.

One of Türkiye’s concerns is to limit interference from other countries to Syria, including Israel, whose forces have advanced in parts of southern Syria and to hold initiatives to the Syrian Kurds.

Mr. Erdogan will also count political gains at home from peace with the Kurds, who represent an important political force that stood with an alliance of opposition parties against Mr. Erdogan.

The Kurds have already made it clear that they expect political and legal guarantees in any deal. Ms. Idintepas said they are likely to ask for the release of political prisoners and changes in terrorist legislation and constitutional amendments.

The deal with the Kurds can allow constitutional changes that remove ethnic divisions and give the Kurds to transfer power. Former Prime Minister Beni said in the comments made in a speech in the city of Ezmir, which was reported by the Turkish media on Friday, may give Mr. Erdogan another tour of the presidency.

“We are surrounded by instability, risks and threats,” said Mr. Yildirim. “That is why there is a need for stability and confidence, and most importantly, a strong leader. Therefore, the way for our President Rajab Erdogan should be opened to run for the presidency again. This new constitution must predict.”

East Savac It contributed to the reports from Istanbul.