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Saturday, January 19, 2013

Turkish politics: A challenge to peace talks | The Economist

Turkish politics
A challenge to peace talks
Jan 18th 2013, 16:24 by A.Z. | DIYARBAKIR

TURKEY faced the first big challenge to a new a round of peace talks with Abdullah Ocalan, the imprisoned leader of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), as tens of thousands of mourners gathered in Diyarbakir on January 17th for the funeral of three PKK women activists who were gunned down by unknown assailants in the centre of Paris last week.

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