"What shall we say to our grandchildren?
Friday, October 24, 2008
Mehmet Ali Birand
I don't want to look back as far as the Ottoman Empire or even Atatürk's time, or to the mistakes made during the founding years of the young republic. The wrong attitude adopted towards the Kurdish issue at that time is understandable in some ways. The international conjuncture, the dispersed condition of Kurdish communities and the requirements of upholding a young Republic, caused this country to view the Kurdish issue from other angles. "
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