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Thursday, July 05, 2007

Turkish Kurds: some back the state | csmonitor.com

"Turkish Kurds: some back the state
Though embattled, not all Kurds support the militant Kurdistan Workers Party.
By Scott Peterson | Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor

Sirnak, Turkey - He may be a Turkish Kurd, but Mehmet Gungor says he has every reason to 'hate' the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK).

Twenty years ago, armed Kurdish separatists visited his uncle's house, asking the extended family to provide food and one or two children as PKK recruits. Citing their poverty in remote southeast Turkey, the family refused."

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