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Monday, December 20, 2010

In secular Turkey, revival of ‘radicals’

"In secular Turkey, revival of ‘radicals’
SUJAN DUTTA

Bazargan (Iran) to Diyarbakir (Turkey), Dec. 20: “I love al Qaida. I love Taliban.”

The words ring out of a Kurdish school student from a Diyarbakir suburb. Inside the bus that he has just boarded there is a stunned silence. But his unsolicited proclamation echoes as if it is bouncing off the snow-covered mountains of Chandir Dagi through which we are driving."

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