Turkey could soon reach a historic peace deal with the Kurds

DEVLET BAHCELIthe leader of Turkey’s largest nationalist party, has made a career of opposing concessions to the country’s 15 million Kurdish minority. The only solution to Turkey’s conflict with armed Kurdish separatists, he has long argued, is to crush them into the ground. Since 2016, when Mr Bahceli and his Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) have thrown their support behind Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, he has managed to put his beliefs into practice. Under his watch, the government unleashed armed offensives against the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party.PKK) at home and abroad. Thousands of Kurdish politicians and activists ended up behind bars.