Turkey's Kurdish conflict: What you need to know
1 December 2011 Last updated at 16:14 ET Help
Kurdish minorities constitute up to a fifth of Turkey's population and also live in neighbouring Iraq, Iran and Syria.
The Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), a Kurdish movement which launched a guerrilla campaign in 1984 for an ethnic homeland in the Kurdish heartland in the southeast of the country, is yet to achieve its goal.
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