Further distance between EU and Turkey might jeopardise PKK-Turkish government talks

The short-term fate of EU-Turkey accession talks will be determined with the publication of the European Commission’s Progress Report on Turkey on the 23 October 2013. The Turkish government’s latest democratisation package will be central to the assessmentmade by this report. However, the democratisation package seems to be failing to satisfy many sections of Turkish society, especially the Kurds, and therefore might jeopardise ongoing negotiations between the PKK (Kurdistan Workers’ Party) and the Turkish government.