"Tensions over religion in Turkey
Feb 9th 2006
IN AN ancient madrassa in the hills near Bitlis, a septuagenarian sheikh consults Islamic scriptures as he speaks over the phone. Sheikh Nureddin, a spiritual leader in Turkey's Kurdish south-east, is negotiating over a young woman hiding in his home. Hatice Kaya's in-laws have wanted her dead since November, when she was kidnapped by her childhood sweetheart and then abandoned"
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