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

Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) fighters are leaving Turkiye and relocating to northern Iraq after decades of armed conflict.

More than 40 000 people have died in the PKK-Turkish conflict in the past four decades.

The group claims that the Turkish state will transition from an armed rebellion to democratic politics with the latest step in its agreement.

Will Ankara follow through on its end of the bargain and permit the PKK’s involvement in civil society?

And is the current gimmick merely a pipe dream?

Presenter: Adrian Finighan

Guests:

Hiwa Osman, a former adviser to Jalal Talabani, was an Iraqi president.

Mohammed D. Salih, senior fellow at the Foreign Policy Research Institute, is a non-resident.