Saturday, July 05, 2014

Turkey’s Kurds see Erdogan as best hope for peace - FT.com

Turkey’s Kurds see Erdogan as best hope for peace

By Daniel Dombey in DiyarbakirAuthor alerts

Bollinger champagne features on the menu, a young crowd buzzes and looming above is a prison notorious for torture.

Welcome to the latest nightspot in Diyarbakir, the unofficial capital of Turkey’s Kurdish southeast. The $2m 400-seater restaurant that would have been unimaginable just a few years ago, today is a symbol of rising hopes of peace.

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