"Turkey's identity dilemma
A push to expand the rights of Kurds has rattled the foundations of the modern Turkish state.
By Nichole Sobecki
Published: September 3, 2009 20:32 ET
DIYARBAKIR, Turkey — Leaving the airport in Diyarbakir, the largest city in Turkey’s mainly Kurdish southeast, one of the first things that you see is Mustafa Kemal Ataturk’s legendary phrase engraved on mountain slopes in bold, white letters: “Happy is he who calls himself a Turk.”"
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