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Thursday, March 09, 2006

The New Anatolian-Dirty War, Dirty Tricks

"Dirty War, Dirty Tricks
Yavuz Baydar

yavuz.baydar@gmail.com

Forget Cyprus, headscarf, unemployment, women�s rights, health care and all the rest.
The basic fact has not changed: the political fault line in Turkey is drawn over the Kurdish issue. Steps and efforts for reform (or lack thereof, depending on which way you look at it) over the latest years in that area, the developing story in Northern Iraq and the EU process in general has only strengthened the dynamics.
Bombing incidents in Şemdinli and the following act with the indictment that contains almost unprecedented accusations agains a group of officers and the Land Forces� Commander should be seen in a context that is, for the moment, too compex to be unfold."

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