Why Did Turkey's Erdogan ‘Apologize’ for Kurdish Massacre?
Analysis
By Palash R. Ghosh: Subscribe to Palash's RSS feed
November 25, 2011 9:53 AM EST
A fascinating -- and perhaps unprecedented -- political imbroglio has erupted in Turkey over tragic events that occurred more than seventy years ago.
On Wednesday, in a televised address to officials of the ruling Justice and Development (AK) Party, Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan placed the blame for the ‘Dersim massacre’ -- a state military operation that killed almost 14,000 people (mostly Kurdish Alevis) during the late 1930s – entirely upon the principal opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) party.
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