"Kurds have conflicted role in Turkish military
By CHRISTOPHER TORCHIA and EROL ISRAFIL (AP) – 3 hours ago
ISTANBUL — On the practice range one day, a Turkish military officer noticed that one of the conscripts under his command, an ethnic Kurd, had a good eye.
'For you to be shooting so well, you must be a terrorist,' the officer joked, using a common term in Turkey for Kurdish rebels at war with the state. It was an awkward moment for conscript Kenan Kizildag, who recently recalled the remark and his reply:"
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