It’s the calm before the storm in Turkey

It has now been more than a month since Abdullah Ocalan, the jailed leader of the Kurdish insurgency in Turkey, called for his Kurdistan Workers’ Party, or PKK, to disband more than 40 years after it started its fight.

“The terrorist group laying down its arms is a victory for civilization,” deputy State Department spokesman Tommy Pigott said. “It is the United States’s hope that this announcement will lead to increased stability for the region.”