Spain is also an example, and I should also mention the Russian Federation. Considering these realities, it is unrealistic for the PKK to insist on a separate state, but it is also impossible for the PKK to yield to a unitary state structure that is governed by the dictates of exclusiveness, authoritarianism, and of one nation under one state. Evidently under the influence of socialism of Stalin and the fascism of Mussolini and Hitler, Mustafa Kemal developed the Turkish style unitary state. You certainly know that the Turkish state is not democratic. There is no cultural freedom for non-Turkish groups.
Turkish democracy is a sham, and it is in reality under the control of the military junta.
The Turkish government not only disregards the human rights of the Kurdish people but it also oppresses its own Turkish people. The PKK struggles for democracy against such an anti-democratic government. To refer to our struggle as separatist is to ignore reality. The Kemalist regime has reached a point where either it will survive by reforming itself or it will destroy itself by becoming trapped in the narrow structure of a unitary state. We have often stated that we are ready to participate in any political process that the Turkish government will undertake to make democratic reforms.