The EU's Culture War With Turkey
Daniel Bender in Global, Europe 3 hours ago
Turkish forces have once-again assaulted the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) in southeastern Turkey and northern Iraq in retaliation for a recent attack that killed 24 Turkish soldiers and left more than 100 wounded. The renewed military operations represent the first real Turkish offensive against Kurdish rebels since 2005, when Turkey and the European Union began negotiating Turkey’s accession to the EU Such a conflict has undoubtedly raised eyebrows across Europe, whose leaders would like to see their populous Muslim neighbor kowtow to European demands, but never be fully included.
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