00:00Baksana, how do you view the peace process in Turkey between the Kurdistan Workers' Party and Turkey?
00:07I'm an admirer. I think this is again a 40-year dilemma of confusion.
00:15And when you look at the peace process that's been undertaken, you have great professionals.
00:21You have, under President Erdogan's leadership, you have Akan Fudan and Ibrahim Kalan,
00:28who have done a great job in trying to build a relationship with Ocalan and the rest of the Kurds.
00:36And I think that it's a long way down the road.
00:41It's all of the pieces of the misunderstandings amongst the four major countries that the Kurds have occupied.
00:52It's an opportunity to bring them all together and let them define for themselves the life they want to lead.
01:01So I'm hopeful for the Kurds. And Syria's been a great example of that.
01:04I think the integration with the SDF and the Syrian Kurds and Maslum is going well.
01:11You know, it's very difficult to have been in a situation where you're an antagonist and then momentarily to go
01:17back to align with each other.
01:19But they're doing a good job. And I'm a great fan of, I've just recently come into the Iraqi portfolio.
01:25And the Barzanis and the Talibanis and the Kurds are amazing. And the history is amazing.
01:31The legacies are amazing.
01:33It's just unfortunate over time they've never found their own nation.
01:37So I understand why they're frustrated.
01:40But the hope is that now you integrate into each of their nations and they find the prosperity that they
01:46deserve.
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