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Turkey’s ‘Kurdish initiative’: What went wrong? (Or did it?)

Turkey’s ‘Kurdish initiative’: What went wrong? (Or did it?)

Officials said about 10,000 Turkish infantry and special forces punched into northern Iraq on Oct. 19 in an effort to destroy bases of the Kurdish Workers Party. They said the operation was in response to a PKK strike in southeastern Turkey in which at least 26 soldiers were killed. In order to understand this last […]

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