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US Gives Drones to Turkey For Use Against Kurdish Separatists « Antiwar.com Blog

US Gives Drones to Turkey For Use Against Kurdish Separatists
John Glaser, September 26, 2011

Last week, Turkey asked the US for assistance (read: weapons) in fighting separatist Kurds in southeast Turkey. As I mentioned in the piece, it wouldn’t be the first time and back when the Clinton administration “donated” arms to Turkey for this same reason, it resulted in a significant increase in violence and serious human rights violations.

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