The Wall Street Journal covers parliament shuffle in Turkey

An article published on The Wall Street Journal daily last week wrote, "Turkey sent yet another strong signal of its desire to end a three-decade Kurdish insurgency on Thursday when Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan picked a moderate interior minister to replace a hawkish predecessor in a cabinet shuffle." Underlining that Muammer Guler, a lawmaker and former governor of Istanbul, took over the Interior Ministry from Idris Naim Sahin, the article reiterated that Guler previously said that they would "let peace doves fly in the southeast. "The move comes as Turkey restarted talks with the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party, or PKK, whose armed struggle for autonomy in the country's southeast has claimed more than 40,000 lives and cost the state as much as $450 billion since 1984, according to the International Crisis Group, or ICG," the article wrote, adding, "But the rewards are great–whoever brokers a deal will have his name etched in gold into the republic's 90-year history. And, analysts add, that's no small reward for Mr. Erdogan as he eyes the presidency in the 2014 elections."