PKK Messaging

Interesting posting here about the Turkey-PKK dynamic and the "messaging" strategies of Kurdish leaders in Iraq:

Then, on January 8, AFP reported that PKK apologized for a deadly car bomb attack in Diyarbakir, Turkey's main Kurdish city on January 03, blaming it on militants acting on their own. That was the fist time PKK apologized in its bloody past since 1984. This is part of PKK’s campaign to win the hearts and minds of the ethnic Kurdish citizens in Turkey by humanizing itself with an apology. The timing of the apology is crucial because it was reported at the same time Turkish President Gul was visiting Bush at the White House.