Is the resolution process re-starting?

It is difficult, I am aware, to talk about civilian resolution endeavors when urban wars are fought against the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) and when soldier funerals are happening in hometowns. There are signs from the PKK front concerning the start of the resolution process. The state has not started evaluating this yet. However, there have been four messages on this sent from Kandil Mountain and three from the European wing. The first message was dated Nov. 3 while the most recent one was on March 21. 

As a matter of fact, the new strategy of Kandil lies behind last week's calls voiced by HDP Co-Chair Selahattin Demirta? and the KCK member in charge of Europe, Zübeyir Aydar. There are a couple of aspects that need to be enlightened: Is Kandil trying to gain time trapped in urban wars? Also, is the top management of the PKK such as Cemil Bay?k and Murat Karay?lan behind the messages of returning to the resolution process? 

More importantly, the PKK has sabotaged the resolution process and launched the urban wars; why does it want to return to resolution? 

The PKK is trapped.

1.Cemil Bay?k who declared the end of the resolution process and the start of urban wars had also called for civil disobedience but Kurds did not follow it. 

2.He declared self-administration. People did not support it. 

3.The PKK, with urban wars and suicide bombings, have lost the Kurds. 

4.In urban wars, people sided with the state, not the PKK. 

The reasons that lie behind the call for the re-start of the resolution process are not limited to the above. 

1.Pressure from the U.S. and the recommendations from the EU to the PKK have started increasing. The U.S. Ambassador in Ankara John Bass called on...

Continue reading on: