Istanbul: Big Trouble in Little Kurdistan
By Piotr Zalewski / Istanbul Monday, Jan. 09, 2012
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In Karayollari, a Kurdish-majority neighborhood in Istanbul, the locals are seething. On Dec. 30, Turkish warplanes flying over Uludere, close to the Iraqi border, rained bombs on what pilots believed to be a column of militants from the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), a Kurdish separatist group. It turned out to be civilians smuggling diesel. Thirty-five people lost their lives in the attack. Karayollari might be over a thousand miles away from Uludere, but the impact of the tragedy on local Kurds is palpable. Since the beginning of the year, protests have erupted here and in surrounding neighborhoods on an almost daily basis.
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