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Attacks threaten unusual Turkish outreach to Kurds - Saturday, June 19, 2010 | 9:51 a.m. - Las Vegas Sun

"Attacks threaten unusual Turkish outreach to Kurds

The Associated Press

Saturday, June 19, 2010 | 9:51 a.m.

Kurdish rebels have dramatically stepped up attacks in Turkey this month in an escalation that poses a dire threat to a remarkable attempt at ending one of the world's longest guerrilla wars.

World attention has focused on the nine Turks killed and hundreds detained late last month in the Israeli boarding of a Turkish vessel seeking to break the Gaza blockade. Inside Turkey, fury at the raid has been accompanied by alarm and anger over strikes on army units in the traditionally safer south and north, hundreds of miles from the poor, Kurdish-dominated southeast where the rebel fight for autonomy is concentrated."

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