"Kurds could revolt if grievances aren't fixed
Turkey's leaders must face up to Kurdish concerns, or risk provoking Middle East-inspired civil unrest.
Behlul Ozkan Last Modified: 09 Jun 2011 16:25
In 1923, when Mustafa Kemal Ataturk founded the Republic of Turkey from the ashes of the multi-ethnic Ottoman Empire, there were two significant groups that opposed the formation of a secular nation state: Islamists and Kurds.
Whereas Islamists supported the continuation of sharia law and the sultanate and were against the westernisation of society and politics, Kurds realised that there was no place for their ethnic and cultural rights in the newly established Turkish nation state."
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