"Resurfacing in Turkey: Deadly old hatreds
By Ian Fisher The New York Times
THURSDAY, APRIL 6, 2006
DIYARBAKIR, Turkey Violent clashes between Kurds and security forces reignited in Turkey over the last week, jolting memories here back to an old problem that still stands as a dangerous block on the nation's path toward greater prosperity and democracy.
After a decade of calm, at least 20 people were killed in protests, most in the guerrilla battleground of the Kurdish southeast but also in cosmopolitan Istanbul. Among the dead were a 6- year-old boy and a 78-year-old man, Halit Sogut, whose relatives asked on Tuesday how this was still possible in a nation that saw its rightful place in the European Union."
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