"Major shift in Turkey on Kurdish problem
Thomas Seibert, Foreign Correspondent
* Last Updated: August 24. 2009 11:48PM UAE / August 24. 2009 7:48PM GMT
ISTANBUL // The emergence of the Kurdish problem as issue No 1 in Ankara has started to affect the political game in the Turkish capital. After 25 years of war between the military and rebels of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party, or PKK, which has cost around 40,000 lives but has not produced a clear victory for the state, there is a growing consensus that the conflict should be brought to an end by peaceful means. That development has political parties scrambling to find their place in a changing political landscape."
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