TREE NEWS update: Turkey’s Interior Ministry said on the 16th that Iran supports its efforts to disband the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) and its branches. Interior Minister Ciftci and Iranian Interior Minister Momeni met in Ankara the same day. Ciftci said dissolving the PKK and its branches in Syria and Iraq is vital for regional peace, and that the Kurdistan Free Life Party operating in Iran should be included in the process.
Turkey Says Iran Backs Its Move to Disband PKK
The significance here is less about the PKK itself than about the alignment being advertised: two regional rivals publicly framing a shared security file, with Iran's interior minister in Ankara and Turkey naming Syria, Iraq and Iran as a single theater. That cross-border framing, extending the demand to a group operating inside Iran, is the notable part. Whether this stays a bilateral statement or translates into coordinated action across those three arenas is the open question.
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