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Sunday, April 09, 2006

Kurdish unrest stirs again in Turkey | csmonitor.com

"Kurdish unrest stirs again in Turkey
Underlying social problems remain in the Kurdish southeast, where protests turned violent last week.
By Yigal Schliefer | Correspondent of The Christian Science Monitor
DIYARBAKIR, TURKEY – Relative calm has returned to this city in Turkey's southeast after three days of violent clashes between Kurds and Turkish security forces. But the underlying tensions have not gone anywhere.

'We want to make peace with the government, but when we say we are Kurds and want the law to recognize that, they say to us that there are no Kurds and there is no Kurdish problem,' says a local student who took part in the clashes and is afraid to be identified."

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