"Turkey's Kurds Mark New Year as Nationalists Launch Push for Minority Rights
Dorian Jones | Istanbul March 21, 2011
Hundreds of thousands of Turkey's minority Kurds have been celebrating Newroz - the start of the Kurdish New Year. The celebrations are the most important event of the Kurds' cultural calendar, but as in previous years, many of the festivities were marred by violence. The clashes come as Turkey's main Kurdish party accuses the ruling AK Party of being behind an ongoing legal crackdown on its members before this June's general election."
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