"Positive Signs Between Turkey and the Kurds?
If you're going to fight terrorism with military force, you at least need to offer an alternative to militancy. After invading Iraq to fight the PKK, it seems Turkey intends to do just that:
Turkey’s government is planning a broad series of investments worth as much as $12 billion in the country’s largely Kurdish southeast, in a new economic effort intended to create jobs and draw young men away from militancy, Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan said.
As part of the push, the government will dedicate a state television channel to Kurdish language broadcasting, a measure that Kurds in Turkey have sought for years. The Turkish state has imposed severe restrictions on the use of Kurdish, arguing that allowing that freedom would strengthen the Kurds’ desire to form a separate state."
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