Turkish and Kurdish Sites Burned in Nights of Unrest
by Sam Hardy on November 4, 2014
When Turkey held its armed forces — and its citizen volunteers — back from intervening in the Islamic State’s assault on the Kurdish town of Kobani in Syria in early October, protests erupted. Among other places, on October 7, Varto, Muş Province — which was the stage for Christopher de Bellaigue’s history of the past century of conflict in the region — endured troubles yet again, as did Diyarbakır, Siirt, and Yüksekova (in Hakkari Province).
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