Researching and writing mainly on Turkey | @LCCLondon alum.
Jul 22, 2020 • 12 tweets • 4 min read
5 years ago today, the 2.5 year-long peace process between the Turkish state & the PKK ended.
Since then, tens of thousands have been killed & hundreds of thousands displaced.
The trigger was the unresolved and now unravelling assassination of 2 police officers [THREAD]
On the morning of 22 July 2015, officers in #Ceylanpınar police station, a town in Southeastern Turkey bordering Syria, grew suspicious after 2 of their colleagues who lived together didn't turn up to work. The officers went to their house but nobody answered the door.