Turkey and the Kurdish issue : Everything everywhere all at once

As Turkey embarks on a potential new Kurdish peace process, a terror attack unfolded. How do Erdoğan's pragmatism and the PKK's shifting strategy intersect? The stakes have never been higher.

The standing joke among journalists covering Turkey is that what happens in a year in Sweden takes place in Turkey between breakfast and lunch. No offence to our colleagues in their hygge-inspired Scandinavian newsrooms, with their cushy social benefits and far freer media landscape—but this is the daily chaos and stress journalists in Turkey are up against – we believed.

However, even those of us deeply accustomed to this relentless pace can still be caught off guard by the sheer speed of major events unfolding. When the tectonic plates shift in Turkey, maşallah, they really do move.

In the past two weeks, there have been rumblings from the AKP about rekindling the Kurdish peace process—a late but welcome shift.

During the opening of the Turkish Parliament’s new legislative session, President Erdoğan stressed the importance of unity amid efforts to sow division. He urged the nation to fortify its “domestic front,” particularly in the face of Israel's aggression, where, in his view, inte…