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Wednesday, September 21, 2011

Turkey: Ending the PKK Insurgency

Turkey: Ending the PKK Insurgency

Europe Report N°213 20 Sep 2011

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY AND RECOMMENDATIONS

A surge in violence has dashed plans for a negotiated end to the 27-year-old Kurdistan Workers’ Party (Partiya Kar­ke­rên Kurdistan, PKK) insurgency. Since Turkey’s elections in mid-June, clashes have killed more than 110 people, country-wide ethnic friction has hardened opinion, and the government has started bombing PKK bases and talking about an imminent ground offensive in northern Iraq. The PKK must immediately end its new wave of terrorist and insurgent attacks, and the Turkish authorities must control the escalation with the aim to halt all violence.

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