With daily violence, punitive curfews and escalating tensions, you would be forgiven for mistaking the current war between the Turkish government and the PKK for that of twenty years ago.
Since the ceasefire was ended in July, hundreds have been killed on both sides with the new rounds of bloodshed. Prospects for peace, which had been seemingly within reach after two years of calm, have all but disappeared.
With each killing from either side, a new score has to be settled; in the end this vicious cycle will continue unabated as it has done for the past three decades.
