Turkey Kurd Peace: What Lies Beneath Turkey's Peace With Kurdish Rebels?
Oray Egin
At long last, it's peacetime in Turkey. The 30-year-old armed conflict between the Turkish state and the armed Kurdish Workers' Party, a rebel group better known as the PKK, is taking a new turn as the rebels withdrew from Turkey and headed into Northern Iraq on May 8. It marks an end to a violent era that has shed around 40,000 lives since the rebel movement launched its first attack in a small province in the Southeast of Turkey in 1984. But several lingering, contentious issues must be resolved before peace can truly be declared.
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