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| Heightened Tensions in Turkey After Strikes on Kurdish Militants in Iraq |
| 2015-07-27 |
| [NYTIMES] As Turkish fighter jets pounded Kurdish militia targets in northern Iraq late Friday, the implications of the attack weighed heavily on Turks and Kurds across the border in ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... , as they faced the prospect of being drawn back into a bloody civil conflict after years of relative peace. In 2013, Turkey brokered a historic settlement with the separatist Kurdistan Workers' Party, or P.K.K., vowing to grant the long-suppressed Kurdish minority greater rights and autonomy in exchange for a cease-fire after a three-decade insurgency that had claimed more than 40,000 lives. The cease-fire brought calm and stability to Turkey's volatile, predominately Kurdish southeast region. But the grinding of the peace processor sputtered last month, prompting waves of small-scale violence as Kurds grew frustrated over what they saw as the government's inadequate response to their demands. That sudden shift occurred as President Recep Tayyip Erdogan ... Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him... was trying to bolster nationalist support before parliamentary elections in June. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #1 Since civil war has worked so well for Syria an Iraq I can see why Turkey want's one. |
| Posted by: 3dc 2015-07-27 00:27 |