Elimination or Integration of Pro‐Kurdish Politics: Limits of the AKP’s Democratic Initiative

The new geopolitical conditions and the regional seeking of neoliberal, pro‐Islamist politics facilitate the ending of the Kurdish conflict in Turkey and to rebuild political relation with the Iraqi Kurds. Besides, the rise of pro‐Kurdish politics both within Turkey and Iraq has nearly closed the door on the sustainability of the traditional security policy. However, the AKP's Turkish nationalist ideological‐political character, the lack of the deep democratic values in the political tradition of neoliberal pro‐Islamic politics and its weak administrative capacity about the Kurdish issue have prevented it from going beyond the traditional national security policy to solve the Kurdish issue and to disarm the PKK.