Yavuz Baydar*
Now that the Turkish government has unveiled a democracy package of “partial reforms,” the question is looming large: How will that sway the Kurdish peace process, watched closely both at home and abroad?
There are two points of view.
Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s chief political adviser, Yalcin Akdogan, writes in his column in the daily Star that the government is following a path of “gradual” normalization “with a mentality change simultaneously under way.” That is, as political analyst Sahin Alpay argues, the Justice and Development Party (AKP) is opting for a “piecemeal regime change.”




