"Turkey and the Kurds
Peace time?
Aug 27th 2009 | BATMAN AND DIYARBAKIR
From The Economist print edition
The Turkish government is preparing a serious plan to settle its Kurdish problem
ON MAY 1st 1920 Kemal Ataturk, father of modern Turkey, told the fledgling parliament that “north of Kirkuk there are Kurds as there are Turks, and we never discriminated against them.” Yet for most of the past 80 years those of Turkey’s 14m-odd Kurds who dared publicly to identify themselves as such have been brutally repressed, kicked out of their villages, tortured, jailed or killed."
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