The end appears in sight, if only faintly, to a decade-long intractable insurgency after the Turkistan Workers’ party (PKK)’s declaration this week of its disarmament and dissolution. The party was once rooted in Marxist-Leninist insurgency and wedded to an independent homeland for Kurds in south-eastern Turkey and labelled a terrorist organisation by the government, the European Union and the US. The landmark move is the result of a proposed grant of parole for Abdullah Ocalan, the party’s founder and leader, under a life sentence since 1999 for treason and separatism. The veteran had a decade ago gone so far as to suggest that his party could align with the US and Israel against Turkey. In more recent........

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