Kurdish pawns bind Turkish rook
By M K Bhadrakumar
Kurdish insurgents have "constructively engaged" Turkey just as the government in Ankara was rolling up its sleeves for a bit of vigorous action in the Muslim Middle East bent on reclaiming its Ottoman legacy. Ankara has been compelled to train its eyes homeward - for a while, at least. This was also the course Turkey's founding father Mustafa Kemal Ataturk had exhorted the nation to follow - "Peace at home, Peace abroad."
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