Kurds and Turks Share Doubts About Peace Talks Between PKK and Turkish Government
by Rozh Ahmad
After nearly three decades of war, Turkey's Kurdistan region, home for an estimated 25 million stateless Kurds, warily awaits a long-lasting peace.
For the last 29 years this region has been ravaged by a ferocious conflict between the Turkish army, the NATO's second largest, and the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), a guerilla movement claiming to fight for cultural and political rights of Turkey's minority Kurds. They have fought each other in a war that has reportedly claimed the lives of more than 40,000 people on both sides, during which 5,000 Kurdish villages were destroyed or depopulated allegedly at the hands of Turkish soldiers.
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