"Turkey’s failure with its Kurds
This is the edge of tomorrow’s Europe, at least if Turkey gets its way. A desolate, mud-built, village, close up to the Syrian border, reduced to rubble by the Turkish army battling the terrorists of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), is slowly being repop-ulated by a brave few. The families are understandably nervous. The PKK has recently restarted its insurgency, breaking a five year truce, angry with the government’s slow delivery on its promises to allow Kurdish in the primary schools, full scale broadcasting in Kurdish and to invest in economic development. “This violence is what we don’t want”, says one man, living with his extended family under nothing more than a homemade canopy."
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