80's and 90's are like 40 years ago, that's a long time in world media and minds
Secondly and the most important point
The PKK did not recently release videos of them killing civilians and celebrating it on video like Hamas did! The world media is focussed on the conflict and Hamas videos were watched worldwide of Hamas executing civilians and celebrating it, which is a clear act of terrorism!
This combined with Erdogan calling them freedom fighters is going to be incredibly destructive for promoting our narrative internationally on the PKK! Erdogan called people who execute civilians on video like ISIS freedom fighters!
Islamist Terror groups have always been known to record their atrocities.
No different to the Cartels and the Shining path of Peru who were also known to record their atrocities.
Pkk no longer records their atrocities because the aim of their terror game has changed if they continued recording their atrocities the whole world will turn against them now they trying to clean their image by appealing to gullible Western progressives.
Even if they appeal to the Progressive liberal the atrocities they committed wont go away.
Another problem Turkiye lacks is winning the information war.
Instead we ignored it constantly same story with the bullshit Armenian genocide.
Erdogan has appeal to his Islamist voter base there was already talks with lots of his Islamist supporters losing their patience with Erdogan because his not tough enough with his stance against Israel.
Erdogan coming from a conservative background will always use his opportunistic tactics regarding Palestine to appeal to his base.
His a politician afterall. After this whole Gaza thing is done he will return back his old self.
Erdogan is far from a Bismarck. His engine entirely runs on populism.