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Sunday, December 20, 2009

Dangerous violence: Turkey's emerging ethnic fault line

"Dangerous violence: Turkey's emerging ethnic fault line

Soner Cagaptay

Rising social violence between Kurds and non-Kurds in Turkey, with daily incidents occurring, is an unusual, and therefore alarming, phenomenon.

This violence has been spurred as much by the recent Kurdish opening, which has created a backlash against Kurdish nationalism, as it has been by the closing of the Kurdish nationalist Democratic Society Party, or DTP, which has, in turn, triggered a second wave of violence."

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