The solution to the Turkish-Kurdish conflict rests on equitable political reforms
Alon Ben-Meir
Nov 26, 2011 10:10 Moscow Time
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The latest cycle of violence between the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) and the Turkish military in October meant the failure of Prime Minister Erdogan’s historical attempt to put an end to this three decade-long conflict. The conflict began when the PKK took up arms against the Turkish government in 1984 demanding the secession of Turkey’s southeast region. Turkey’s successive governments chose throughout much of this period to ignore the existence of the Kurds as a separate ethnicity (whose more than fourteen million people compromise one fifth of Turkey’s population), banned their language and culture, and inadvertently degraded their standard of living,, making them one of the country’s poorest populations.
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