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Tuesday, May 04, 2010

‘What does the PKK want to do?’

"‘What does the PKK want to do?’

RUŞEN ÇAKIR

Mulling over the Kurdish question and the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party, or PKK, has always been difficult. No matter how democratized Turkey is these two subjects remain a taboo. Not only legal obstacles stand in the way. One can even say legal setbacks are becoming less important. But the real problem stems from public pressure; or perhaps I should say the “pressure of public opinion.”"

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