President Abdullah Gül says, "Forget about İmrali"

That took less than 24 hours. Imrali is the island prison where Abdullah Öcalan - leader of the PKK - announced that he was presenting a road map to settle the PKK/Turkey conflict. As mentioned in my previous post on this subject, I thought that the chance of the Turkish government accepting any sort of autonomous region for the Kurdish minority as suggested in the leak of the the road map details was as likely as finding a Republican voter with an IQ above his or her hat size. That was confirmed in this report.

The PKK Plan for Peace

The details of the plan have been leaked. A key point is Abdullah Öcalan's proposal to create "an entity similar to a democratic nation and to be organized in different fields of life such as sport, education and religion. This entity will similarly have the right to establish its own parliament and municipality if it can, according to Öcalan. He also dismissed the federal-state system in northern Iraq, finding it noncompliant with his model."

The chances of the Turkish government agreeing to this part of the plan are nil.