Tuesday, August 30, 2005

Turkey's Kurds languish in poverty | csmonitor.co

"Turkey's Kurds languish in poverty
The Kurdish southeast copes with unemployment, violence.
By Yigal Schleifer | Correspondent of The Christian Science Monitor
BISMIL, TURKEY – Outside a post office in this southeastern Turkish town ringed by cotton and wheat fields, men and women jostle for position, eager to read a list of names posted near the window. The names are of poor families with school-age children eligible for financial support from a World Bank program, giving each $7-14 per child every month."

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