"Turkey 'faces choice between democracy and dictatorship'
By Nicholas Birch in Kortek, Iraqi Kurdistan
Published: 09 July 2007
Closing your eyes and listening to his thoughts on Turkey's elections at the end of next week, you could almost mistake Cemil Bayik for a political analyst. He is not. In fact, he is one of the two most powerful figures in the Kurdistan Workers' Party, or PKK, whose 25-year war against the Turkish state has cost nearly 40,000 lives."
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