Kurdish farmers caught up in Turkey's scorched-earth anti-PKK offensive
By Tony Cross
The victory of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s Justice and Development Party (AKP) in 1 November’s election means that violence in the Kurdish-majority south-east of the country is unlikely to decline any time soon. It flared up again earlier this year when the government ended peace talks with the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) guerrilla movement and launched a military offensive, declaring "security zones" in sensitive areas. I visited one of them in Diyarbakir province on the day before the poll.
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