The emerging shape of the Kurdish process vis à vis Turkey, Syria and Israel

This week, I bring together the latest developments in Turkey’s Kurdish negotiation process. These include the talks with Damascus and Israel’s evolving position around the process.

• Kurdish strategy within the limits of the negotiation

• The conceptual core of the process

• The most immediate faultline

• Turkey’s structural strength over Israel

• Israel’s intervention and Syria’s security agreement

Thousands had gathered for the Newroz celebration in Turkey’s main Kurdish city Diyarbakır, held under the theme “A Democratic Society for Freedom” in March this year. Src: Bianet/ Evrim Deniz

The contours of the latest Kurdish negotiation process were drawn a year ago when the nationalist Devlet Bahçeli unexpectedly launched it, yet the pressures of the moment now render these features far more visible.

Followers of Angle, Anchor and Voice would by now know that I argued this process was shaped as a prophylactic step in the face of Israel’s expansionist posture and the changing regional landscape after 7th October and the fall of Assad. I cannot stress enough how central this point is for understanding what is unfolding in Syria and the recent contest, or more aptly friction, betwee…