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How Turkey may have solved the Kurdish insurgency

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/18/opinion/turkey-kurds-pkk-hamas.html
1•marojejian•27m ago

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marojejian•27m ago
Gift Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/18/opinion/turkey-kurds-pkk-...

Of course there are external / uncontrollable factors behind this, but I also buy the article's opinion, that peace is not about eliminating the enemy, but about creating incentives that favor nonviolent strategies to achieve your political goals:

>The real victory over an insurgency does not come when every insurgent disappears. It comes when the gunman decides he would rather be a politician.