Eurasia Press & News
Turkey’s Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has expressed hope that an upcoming meeting with Iraqi Kurdish leader Masoud Barzani in Diyarbakır over the weekend will be a historic occasion that crowns an ongoing resolution process in the country.
“We will experience a historic process in Diyarbakır this weekend,” Erdoğan told reporters yesterday in reference to the upcoming visit of the president of the Iraqi Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) on Nov. 16.
The two leaders will attend a collective wedding ceremony where around 300 couples already living together will officially get married and will together open some facilities in Diyarbakır, which is the biggest province in Turkey’s predominantly Kurdish-populated southeastern Anatolian region.
“We wanted to do it in a different way when having these 300 families married. Let it be a crowning for the resolution process where deputies of the province and the region and Mr. Barzani are invited, and where they will accede. We said let’s bring together two friends like İbrahim Tatlıses and Şivan Perwer,” Erdoğan said, referring to a joint concert from two famous Kurdish singers.
The resolution process, also dubbed as the peace process, refers to an ongoing government-led initiative aimed at ending the long-running Kurdish issue by ending the three-decade-old conflict between security forces and the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK).
“At the same time, we will have political meetings with Mr. Barzani there,” he said.
