Flick 🇬🇧 on Nostr: This is so weirdly out of the blue. ...
This is so weirdly out of the blue.
https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/is-the-kurdish-pkk-about-to-lay-down-arms/
The biggest question of all is whether the PKK leadership and its rank and file will follow the call to lay down their arms. Though Ocalan has been in solitary confinement since 1999, he still enjoys a strong personality cult in the Kurdish movement. Their political rallies are filled with his portraits and speeches full of his quotes. What few of his followers seem to be asking is how Ocalan’s mental state is after 26 years of solitary confinement on an island.
There are several other pressing questions that remain to be answered. If anything, what will the radical Kurdish movement get in return for laying down their arms? Will fighters in the mountains and activists in prison get amnesty?
https://archive.ph/5dQRX
https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/is-the-kurdish-pkk-about-to-lay-down-arms/
The biggest question of all is whether the PKK leadership and its rank and file will follow the call to lay down their arms. Though Ocalan has been in solitary confinement since 1999, he still enjoys a strong personality cult in the Kurdish movement. Their political rallies are filled with his portraits and speeches full of his quotes. What few of his followers seem to be asking is how Ocalan’s mental state is after 26 years of solitary confinement on an island.
There are several other pressing questions that remain to be answered. If anything, what will the radical Kurdish movement get in return for laying down their arms? Will fighters in the mountains and activists in prison get amnesty?
https://archive.ph/5dQRX