The art of compromise 🕊🇹🇷 For more than 40 years, the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) has been trying, by various means, to achieve the protection of the national rights and interests of the Kurds living in Turkey, despite the fierce resistance of the authorities. Over the past few years we have seen movement and new steps along the path of the peace process: the authorities confirmed the transfer of PKK leader Abdullah Öcalan to a special block of the prison on the island of İmralı, where he will be able to hold meetings with journalists, academics and NGO representatives. Öcalan is the ideological and political leader of the Kurdish movement and the founder of the PKK. Since 1999 he has been serving his sentence. For decades the Turkish authorities did not change his regime of detention. 📷📣 Thus, the Kurdish side is gaining more opportunities for dialogue and for spreading its ideas. This measure was one of the key demands of the Kurdish side. 📃⚖️ Within the framework of the peace process, in the summer the Turkish parliament adopted a law on limited amnesty for PKK members: it suspends for 5–10 years investigations and the execution of sentences for those not involved in grave crimes. Öcalan himself is not covered by the law, but continues to play a central role in the disarmament process. 🤝 The peace process is moving forward with difficulty: Kurdish politicians call for accelerating it. However, the very fact of the new measures regarding Öcalan and of the adopted law shows that the parties are learning to negotiate rather than to fight. Politics is the art of compromise. Compromise in Turkey is the only path to peace after decades of bloodshed. #SOVINTERN_NET #Hub_Asia ⭐️ Moscow Network Hub of SOVINTERN