The big question now is whether the PKK will actually heed this call by Ocalan and if PKK affiliates will agree.
NATO member Turkey has long backed Syria's armed and political opposition to ousted leader Bashar al-Assad, who was toppled in late December.
Since municipal elections in March in which AKP suffered heavy losses, two CHP Istanbul district mayors have been arrested.
"All part of a Turkish plan to distort our image," the Kurdish official from Syria told the Post.
"Everyone should take their hands off Syria and we, along with our Syrian siblings, will crush the heads of Islamic State, the YPG and other terrorist organizations in a short time."
Many airlines that have suspended operations in Israel have chosen to save their slots, but the predicament of Turkish Airlines is slightly different.
Is Turkey still a reliable NATO ally under Erdogan’s Islamist and authoritarian rule?
Erdogan called for Muslim unity against Israeli expansion, but Turkish expert Dr. Hay Eytan Cohen Yanarocak sees deep divisions in the Muslim world
A Turkish diplomatic source said that, with the agreement, a Joint Security Coordination Centre would be established in Baghdad along with a Joint Training and Cooperation Centre in Bashiqa.
It could have been different. Turkey could have been a great engine of world peace, a natural mediator between Arabs and Jews, but for now, it must endure yet more of the man who crushed its freedom.
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