"Turkey, the Kurds and Islam
A religious revival
Jan 31st 2008 | ANKARA AND DIYARBAKIR
From The Economist print edition
The AK government uses Islam to win over Kurdish support
A SIGN adorned with Ataturk's favourite adage, “Happy is he who calls himself a Turk”, hangs in Diyarbakir, south-east Turkey, as a reminder of Turkey's decades-old policy of forcibly assimilating the region's Kurds. The ruling Justice and Development (AK) party might prefer “Happy is he who calls himself a Muslim”."
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