"Rights Groups: Abuses on the Rise in Turkey's Kurdish Regions
By Amberin Zaman
Batman, Turkey
19 April 2006
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Turkey has in recent years adopted a series of democratic reforms in an effort to meet European Union standards for membership. But human rights groups say they are seeing increasing human rights abuses in the predominantly Kurdish southeast of the country that could undermine Turkey's membership negotiations. The concerns arise from increasing violence between security forces and rebels of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party, PKK."
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