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Friday, November 28, 2014

Turkey and the Kurds

Turkey and the Kurds

by Uzay Bulut
November 28, 2014 at 5:00 am

For decades Turkey's official policy was: There are no Kurds -- so there is no problem.

"They wanted to send us a message through a beheading, a throat-cutting. This was an organized attack against our party. The [Turkish] state wanted to behead our party administrator in our party building. Behind this attack was the state itself." — Selahattin Demirtas, co-Chairman of the pro-Kurdish People's Democratic Party (HDP).

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