Kurds in the right place: a truce nears
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🗓️ 6 March 2025
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
The leader of Turkey’s Kurdish rebels has called on the group to disband. That could end one of the world’s longest running conflicts. How tariffs and political volatility may affect the American economy (10:16). And the craze for eating caviar… with chicken nuggets (18:33).
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| 0:00.0 | The Economist |
| 0:02.0 | Hello and welcome to the intelligence from The Economist. |
| 0:11.0 | I'm Rosie Bloor |
| 0:15.0 | and I'm Jason Palmer. |
| 0:17.0 | Every weekday we provide a fresh perspective on the events shaping your world. |
| 0:25.1 | Donald Trump has been clear that he wants to make America rich again and great again. |
| 0:30.4 | But combine a volatile president-slapping tariffs on imports with some longer-run economic trends, |
| 0:35.9 | and the effect could be precisely the opposite. |
| 0:40.3 | And I don't know about you, but when I think of caviar, I think of lush surroundings, high society stuff. |
| 0:47.0 | I do not think about it slathered on baked potatoes or chicken McNuggets or even slurped off the back of a hand. |
| 0:53.8 | But that is becoming the done thing. |
| 1:01.5 | But first... |
| 1:09.0 | Last week, Abdullah Ojalan, long considered Turkey's public enemy number one, made a long-awaited statement from prison. |
| 1:18.6 | Piotr Zelewski is our Turkey correspondent. |
| 1:22.6 | In his message, the head of the PKK, a Kurdish militia Ojalan founded almost half a century ago, |
| 1:29.7 | called on his fighters to lay down their weapons and disband. |
| 1:33.3 | The PKK has been locked in a war with Turkey since 1984. |
| 1:37.4 | PKK, PYD, YPG, SDG, |
| 1:41.4 | any adly or anything adler should be in Iraq and Syria's Any ad-lors, it all of Syria, |
| 1:45.0 | and all of Syria, |
| 1:46.0 | all of all of the |
| 1:49.0 | On Friday, Turkey's ruling Justice at Development or Aq party |
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