The Dilemma of National Identity in Turkey
Renewed tension between the government and ethnic Kurds reflects a country struggling to define itself.
By Sabrina M. Peterson
Staff Editor
February 6, 2012
In late December 2011, the Turkish military’s air strikes targeting militants from the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), a Kurdish separatist group, accidentally killed 35 young cigarette smugglers. Immediately, tensions between Ankara and much of Turkey’s Kurdish population escalated, with Kurdish citizens protesting in Turkish cities such as Istanbul and Diyarbakır.
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