"Turks, Kurds Keep Ties Businesslike in New Iraq
Despite tension between the ethnic minority and the government over the border, Turkish firms are eagerly investing where Westerners won't.
By Solomon Moore, Times Staff Writer
April 29, 2006
SULAYMANIYA, Iraq — As they attempt to secure their hold on a semi-independent slice of Iraq and rebuild its economy, Kurdish leaders have turned in a surprising direction — toward Turkey.
For much of the last century, Turks and Kurds have been bitter enemies. Starting in the 1930s, Turkey banned the language of its Kurdish minority and violently suppressed Kurdish independence movements on its soil. Just in recent weeks, Turkish security forces and Kurdish protesters clashed in riots that claimed more than a dozen lives."
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