Tuesday, April 26, 2016

Honoring Turkey’s Voice of the Voiceless - Carnegie Europe - Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

Honoring Turkey’s Voice of the Voiceless
Posted by: Thomas de Waal Tuesday, April 26, 2016

After a decade of unprecedented opening up to the world, Turkey is closing down again. Journalists and academics are persecuted. President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has gone to war once more with the militants of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), disavowing a peace process he himself launched. Erdoğan rails against so-called terrorists in language reminiscent of the military men of the 1980s he fought hard to weaken, labeling almost anyone who sympathizes with the Kurdish cause a terrorist by association.

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