Wednesday, November 18, 2009

Turkey: Government Launches PR Offensive on Kurdish Question

"TURKEY: GOVERNMENT LAUNCHES PR OFFENSIVE ON KURDISH QUESTION
Nicholas Birch 11/17/09

Turkey’s political leaders are taking to the road to explain their plans to end a 25-year Kurdish war to the people. The PR offensive is opening amid rising political tensions and dwindling hopes of a multi-party accord on the initiative.

'We are ready to be stripped of all the offices and titles we possess,' Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan told an audience in the conservative eastern town of Malatya on November 14. 'Our only desire is that not another drop of [soldiers’] blood be spilt.'"

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