Ertuğrul Kürkçü is a socialist politician and columnist. He is the founder and honorary chair of the Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP), for which he was an MP from 2011 to 2018. He has been a political exile in Germany since 2019.
The disarmament of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party and promised release of its prisoners offers a path to pacifying conflict in Turkey. It’s less clear if the Turkish state is ready to compromise with Kurds’ democratic demands.
The pro-Kurdish Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) is key to the fight against Turkey’s brutal Erdoğan regime. But its struggle is also about building a different kind of world order.