Friday, April 12, 2013

Kurdish Village Guards Face Uncertain Future - Al-Monitor: the Pulse of the Middle East

Kurdish Village Guards

By: Ilnur Cevik for Al-Monitor Turkey Pulse Posted on April 11.

The government of Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan is going ahead with the much-heralded peace process that it hopes will end the terrorist war waged by the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) for the past three and a half decades while questions remain about the fate of a huge army of village guards who have been recruited to fight the Kurdish militants along with the Turkish army.

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