"Turkey should subsidise poor SE region - report
ANKARA, Nov 22 (Reuters) - Turkey should pay a monthly subsidy to around five million poverty-stricken people in its mainly Kurdish eastern regions to help kickstart the local economy, said a U.N.-backed report unveiled on Wednesday.
Incomes in eastern Turkey are about one third of the national average and as little as 7 percent of the average income in the European Union, which Turkey hopes to join."
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