"Turkey Takes on the P.K.K.
By Jeffrey Young
Washington, D.C.
08 May 2006
Turkey has escalated security operations against the Kurdistan Worker's Party, or P.K.K., in the face of that separatist group's attacks.
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Turkey, especially its southeastern region, is dotted with the rubble of conflict between government forces and the separatist Kurdistan Worker's Party, or P.K.K., which Turkey and the United States consider to be a terrorist group. The violence began in 1984 and has since claimed at least 30,000 lives. Recently, the Turkish government has escalated its security operations in an effort to crush the P.K.K. But so far, the insurgents continue to fight back. "
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