The jailed founder and leader of the PKK calls on the Kurdish group to disband. That follows four decades of fighting with Turkiye, costing forty thousand lives. So why is this coming now, and what impact could it have on Turkiye and the region?

In this episode: 

• Omer Ozkizilcik, Director of Turkish Studies at the Omran Center for Strategic Studies.
• H. A. Hellyer, Senior Fellow in Geopolitics, International Security and Middle East Studies at the Royal United Services Institute.
• Mohammed Salih, Non-Resident Senior Fellow at the Foreign Policy Research Institute.

Host: Nick Clark

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