In 2009, the Turkish government announced the initiation of a process known as the “Kurdish Opening” with the intention to ‘resolve’ the Kurdish issue. Since then, several aspects of the conflict were open to political debate and some progress was made to the extent that the Turkish state, for the first time in its history, publicly announced its talks with the PKK (Partiya Karkerên Kurdistan, Kurdistan Workers’ Party) and its imprisoned leader Abdullah Öcalan. However, most of the peace efforts concentrated on the legal changes needed to democratize the country and disarm and demobilize the PKK. Until now the peace process has not paid much attention to the gendered aspect of the long-lived war and has not included any plan to deal with the needs of the women affected by the conflict. This research aims to answer the following questions: a) What do the internally displaced Kurdish women request from the state for peace and reconciliation? b) How do they see intergroup relations as part of the peacebuilding in Turkey? c) How do women who were part of the official peace process (aka “wise women”) define the conflict and its resolution? Is there congruence between the Kurdish IDP’ needs/wants and wise women’s descriptions? This research tries to answer these questions by analyzing the results of a fieldwork that took place between January and July 2015 with 42 women IDPs in Diyarbakır, Mersin and Istanbul, and 6 wise women. In doing so, it pays a specific attention to the role of gender in peace processes.