Turkey's Kurds | Can't they get along any more? | Economist.com: "Can't they get along any more?
Sep 8th 2005 | ANKARA
From Economist.com
Coexistence between Turks and Kurds is suddenly fraying
THE history of Kurdish rebellions against Turkish authority goes back to the Ottoman era; there have been 29 of them in all. The latest—launched in 1984 by the separatist Kurdistan Workers' Party, known as the PKK—has claimed nearly 40,000 lives. Yet, even at the height of that bloodshed, many ordinary Turks and Kurds, helped by a common Muslim faith, coexisted quite happily."
