A thinner (or larger) slice of profiterole for the Kurds?

?Profiterole for the Kurds?? (this column, Sept. 10, 2009) recalled the early days of Kudistan Workers? Party (PKK) leader Abdullah Öcalan?s 1998-1999 odyssey, when a group of Kurds launched a hunger strike in Klafthmonos Square in Athens in protest of his arrest in Rome. The same square witnessed another event about 10 days after the hunger strike began: A private company and a cookery school made a world record attempt at baking the largest-ever profiterole, weighing almost 5 tons and topped with half a ton of whipped cream. Shortly after the irresistible aroma of chocolate mousse and cream puff conquered the square, the hunger strike ended.
 
In autumn 2011, an audio leak showed that the Turkish government was in (no longer) secret talks with the PKK for peace. ?Profiterole for the Kurds? (revisited),? (this column, Aug. 18, 2011) was not sure if the negotiators spoke a common language:
 
?A Kurdish homeland is why the PKK has fought its 25-year-long war, although [the PKK] retreated in rhetorical terms, to a large degree of autonomy. Sorry, but the PKK men have not killed and been killed because they are a bunch of bloodthirsty sadomasochists. Nor have they killed? to win some silly state or private broadcasting in their own language or a couple of Kurdish language institutes at Turkish universities.?
 One year later the government formally announced its ?peace initiative/opening? which it later reflagged as the ?national unity and brotherhood project.? In 2013, the PKK declared a landmark ceasefire. Meanwhile, ?Profiterole for the Kurds? (re-revisited),? (this column, March 1, 2013, or three weeks before the ceasefire was announced) warned that:
 
?Peace will not come on a gratis basis. Turks will have to give up ?something ?? Double...