A Decade After 9/11: Turkey Redefines Political Islam
A Decade After 9/11: Turkey Redefines Political Islam
New America Media, News Report, Frank Viviano, Posted: Sep 02, 2011
In 1995, the city of Gaziantep, on the southeastern edge of Turkey’s Anatolian plain, was under siege. Its crumbling medieval center was swamped with refugees from a civil war between insurgent Kurds and the Turkish Army that eventually left 40,000 dead and 3,000,000 people homeless. Along the borderlands with Syria and Iraq, smoke rose from rural Kurdish villages obliterated by F-15 strikes.
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