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A deal to end Turkey's 40-year Kurdish conflict?

Top lawmakers from the pro-Kurdish People’s Equality and Democracy Party have now met with Abdullah Ocalan, the jailed leader of the PKK, on a few occasions, generating some buzz around the potential for a deal that could bring the decades-long conflict between the Turkish state and the Kurds to an end. This is taking place amid seismic geopolitical shifts in the region, especially in Syria. Henri Barkey, an adjunct senior fellow for Middle East studies at the Council on Foreign Relations and the Cohen chair in international relations at Lehigh University, joins Thanos Davelis as we look into the latest efforts to bring an end to Turkey’s 40-year Kurdish conflict.

You can read the articles we discuss on our podcast here:

Turkey, Kurds move toward peace deal as lawmakers meet with PKK leader Ocalan

What to know about the latest effort to bring an end to Turkey’s 40-year Kurdish conflict

Greece strongly objects to sale of Meteor missile to Turkey

Mitsotakis denies cover-up accusations in Tempe railway disaster

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