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Thursday, August 13, 2009

Top Turkish minister visits pro-Kurdish party - Taiwan News Online

"Top Turkish minister visits pro-Kurdish party
Associated Press

A senior Turkish minister has visited the headquarters of a pro-Kurdish political party in an unusual gesture of reconciliation.

Interior Minister Besir Atalay's meeting Thursday with Ahmet Turk, leader of the Democratic Society Party, is part of a wider government effort to forge a national consensus capable of ending a 25-year insurgency rooted in Turkey's predominantly Kurdish southeast."

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