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Saturday, March 23, 2013

A Nowruz Vision For Turkish-Kurdish Relations - Al-Monitor: the Pulse of the Middle East

A Nowruz Vision

By: Cengiz Çandar. Translated from Radikal (Turkey).

What was read out yesterday was a declaration of peace and unity for Mesopotamia, Kurdistan and Anatolia. I listened to the "historic” declaration expected from Abdullah Ocalan on a live transmission from NTV. Everything was momentous yesterday [March 21]. All leading Turkish television channels were transmitting the Nowruz celebrations in Diyarbakir of more than a million people with PKK flags and posters of Abdullah Ocalan live for several hours.

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