"Step by Step, Gulf Between Turkey and Kurds Narrows
Tyler Hicks/The New York Times
Kurds in Diyarbakir, Turkey. President Abdullah Gul has visited the country’s Kurdish region three times since taking office.
By SEBNEM ARSU
ISTANBUL — For years, Kurds in Turkey knew better than to air demands for more rights in public. In a country that has often valued loyalty to the state above free speech, discussion of placing any distance between the Kurds and the state was tantamount to a prison sentence."
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