The new coalition excludes the Flemish separatists who won the most seats of any single party in the last election.
The separatist Abu Sayyaf Group, once the most feared force in the region, now has no overall spiritual or military leaders, few weapons and only a hundred or so fighters.
The re-establishing of Catalan as an official language is arguably the separatists' most notable achievement so far.
But there is an increasing worry that while the Azov and other volunteer battalions might be Ukraine's most potent and reliable force on the battlefield against the separatists, they also pose the most serious threat to the Ukrainian government, and perhaps even the state, when the conflict in the east is over.
On current polling, this would give the separatists most of Scotland's 59 seats—41 of which are held by Labour and make it the third biggest party in Westminster.
"We as the government are determined to use all political, geopolitical and military vehicles against the separatist terror organization in the most effective way," Mr. Erdogan said Sunday on Turkish television.
The separatist leader in Donetsk, the most entrenched of the pro-Russia occupations, argued in interviews with journalists outside the regional government headquarters that Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, who endorsed the Geneva agreement for Russia, wasn't empowered to make decisions for the self-proclaimed "Donetsk Republic".
The most colorful separatists, although they were neither the most influential nor the most ideologically stalwart, were the Van Dykes, a roving band of van-driving vegans who shaved their heads, avoided speaking to men unless they were waiters or mechanics, and lived on the highways of North America for several years, stopping only on Women's Land.
Even the troubled state of Jammu and Kashmir, where an insurgency has been raging for two decades, saw a large turnout, with one of the most prominent separatists standing for election (he lost).
In a recent article, Philip Potter, an expert on terrorism at Michigan University, said that China's ongoing security crackdown in Xinjiang has forced the most militant separatists into neighbouring countries such as Pakistan and Afghanistan.
