{"id":69547,"date":"2013-04-13T16:38:35","date_gmt":"2013-04-13T13:38:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/?p=69547"},"modified":"2014-01-08T02:35:37","modified_gmt":"2014-01-08T00:35:37","slug":"erdogans-kurdish-gambit-by-sinan-ulgen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/2013\/04\/13\/erdogans-kurdish-gambit-by-sinan-ulgen\/","title":{"rendered":"Erdo\u011fan\u2019s Kurdish Gambit by Sinan Ulgen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ISTANBUL \u2013 Conflict in the Middle East threatens not only the security of many of its states, but also their continued existence. Syria, Iraq, Lebanon, and others, now gripped by sectarian fighting, risk fragmenting into ethnic sub-states, transforming a region whose political geography was drawn nearly a century ago.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-69548\" alt=\"e9479c920d0855722506b4f2aba19064.portrait\" src=\"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/e9479c920d0855722506b4f2aba19064.portrait.png\" width=\"220\" height=\"165\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Illustration by Margaret Scott<\/p>\n<p>CommentsSurveying the regional scene, Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdo\u011fan has conceived of an audacious plan to enhance Turkey\u2019s regional standing and extend his own political dominance at home. Facing the end of a self-imposed three-term limit as prime minister, he is intent on changing the Turkish constitution to introduce a presidential system \u2013 with himself on top as the first incumbent to wield much-enlarged power.<\/p>\n<p>CommentsErdo\u011fan\u2019s plan, however, depends on ending Turkey\u2019s 30-year conflict with its own Kurdish population. As a result, the Erdo\u011fan government has decided on negotiations with Abdullah Ocalan, the jailed leader of the Kurdish Workers\u2019 Party (PKK), the armed Kurdish resistance movement.<\/p>\n<p>via Erdo\u011fan\u2019s Kurdish Gambit by Sinan Ulgen &#8211; Project Syndicate.<\/p>\n<p>more :\u00a0http:\/\/www.project-syndicate.org\/commentary\/turkey-s-plan-for-peace-and-hydrocarbons-by-sinan-ulgen<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ISTANBUL \u2013 Conflict in the Middle East threatens not only the security of many of its states, but also their continued existence. Syria, Iraq, Lebanon, and others, now gripped by sectarian fighting, risk fragmenting into ethnic sub-states, transforming a region whose political geography was drawn nearly a century ago. Illustration by Margaret Scott CommentsSurveying the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":83,"featured_media":69548,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[89],"tags":[1280],"class_list":["post-69547","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-turkey","tag-pkk"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69547","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/83"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69547"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69547\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/69548"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}