Hunger Strike Exposes Turkey's Festering Kurdish Problem
BY Ceylan Yeginsu | November 15 2012 3:33 PM
The Turkish government of moderate Islamist prime minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan has been reaching out to the country's Kurdish minority, with a “Kurdish initiative” that initially set out to provide greater rights and some form of local autonomy for a 20-million strong Kurdish population. That plan is disintegrating quickly as hundreds of Kurds participate in a hunger strike that has now surpassed 60 days.
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