"TURKEY IS WINNING THE BATTLE, BUT CAN IT WIN THE WAR? Nicholas Birch 11/06/07
Slenderly built, his face wrinkled from years of sun and a diet of locally-grown tobacco, Irfan Gur doesn’t look like the sort of person who would give the Turkish state a headache. The photos on his wall tell a different story. There’s his father, long dead, the top of his portrait covered in lace as is the tradition here. But lace also covers the features of a much younger man, Gur’s son, a Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) militant who died fighting the Turkish army in 1994. Gur points to another photograph, this one open. 'My youngest son', he says. 'He went to join the group in July. I haven’t heard from him since.'"
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