Thursday, October 29, 2009

Turkey: Kurdish Peace Initiative Builds Momentum

"TURKEY: KURDISH PEACE INITIATIVE BUILDS MOMENTUM
Nicholas Birch 10/29/09

Turkey’s government is vowing to push forward with an initiative aimed at ending a 25-year Kurdish war. Changing geopolitical circumstances are helping to make Kurdish militants more open to a lasting peace deal.

'We will press ahead with this process ... and with luck we will complete it,' Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan said during a mid-October visit to Siirt, a majority Kurdish district in southeastern Turkey."

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