"Turkey's fickle friends Arrogant acts by the country's generals, the Bush administration and the EU have doomed prospects for peace with the Kurds
The democratic revolution that has brought unprecedented levels of freedom to Turkey in recent years will not be complete until the festering Kurdish problem is resolved. When I toured the Kurdish region two years ago, a solution seemed tantalisingly close. Kurds were overflowing with optimism. Now that optimism has crashed back into frustration and anger. What happened?"
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