"Leader Regrets Turkish Stance Toward Kurds
Erdogan acknowledges the repressed minority's grievances in a speech. The shift may please the EU but anger the army and nationalists.
By Amberin Zaman, Special to The Times
ANKARA, Turkey — The prime minister acknowledged Friday that the Turkish government had mishandled its relations with the nation's minority Kurds, saying their long-running grievances needed to be addressed through greater democracy, not repression.
Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan's admission, believed to be the first by a Turkish leader, came during a speech in Diyarbakir, the largest city in the troubled Kurdish southeast and a hotbed of Kurdish nationalism."
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