Turkey’s Syria policy is undoing years of rapprochement with Kurds
By Daniel Dombey in IstanbulAuthor alerts
Turkey awoke on Wednesday to tanks on the streets and curfews in its southeastern cities – sights many Turks hoped had been consigned to history.
It was the starkest indication yet that Ankara’s stance on the Syria crisis has inflamed ethnic and sectarian divisions at home, most notably with the Kurdish minority, which accounts for up to a fifth of Turkey’s population, even as Ankara was hoping to bring to an end the country’s Kurdish conflict that killed 40,000 people in three decades.
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