The trickiest part of Mr Erdogan's “Kurdish overture” is how to get the PKK to stop fighting without negotiating with their imprisoned leader, Abdullah Ocalan, who continues to hold sway over both his men and millions of ordinary Kurds.
Although recent opinion polls show 45% of Turks supporting Mr Erdogan's Kurdishoverture, a deal that followed overt bargaining with the PKK would be tricky to sell at home.