When the peace process began there was immediately a question in everyone's mind: How could this process possibly be sabotaged? The possibility that first came to mind was that a group within the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) or the government may sabotage it. The second pertinent possibility was that states like Iran or Syria, using either the activities of the PKK itself or other proxy groups would have the chance to interfere. Until last week the peace process progressed without problem.

By Alexandra Hudson and Gareth Jones BERLIN (Reuters) - A top Kurdish politician said on Monday it would be difficult for Kurdish fighters to disarm before leaving Turkey under a peace process, stressing that the key issue was that they depart peacefully without contact with the Turkish military. Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan's government is seeking a weapons-free pullout by militants of the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) as part of a drive to end a three-decades long conflict which has killed more than 40,000 people.

Everything has gone as planned so far. Well, mostly. On his way to Bishkek, Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan talked vaguely about “some minor disturbances.” He most probably had the clashes at Dicle University in mind, where a violent scene caused concern. What is going fine is the process itself as a whole.

The chief advisor to Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Yalçın Akdogan, has said that it is not right to take heed of everything that the top operatives of the terrorist Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) in the Kandil Mountains of northern Iraq say. Speaking on a TV show on Wednesday, Akdogan said, referring to the statements made by PKK chief commander Murat Karayılan during an interview with veteran journalist Hasan Cemal, that the remarks of terrorists from the Kandil Mountains, where PKK hideouts are located, should not be taken seriously all the time and that the settlement proce