Saturday, September 12, 2015

Can Turkey pull back from brink of civil conflict? - Al-Monitor: the Pulse of the Middle East

Can Turkey pull back from brink of civil conflict?

"Turkey is on the brink of a civil war.” This is how Selahattin Demirtas, the co-chairman of the pro-Kurdish bloc in the Turkish parliament, the Peoples’ Democracy Party (HDP), chillingly described the spiraling violence that has engulfed Turkey after a two-year cease-fire between rebels of the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) and the Turkish army ended in July.

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