Turkey Haunted by Its Ghosts
NOV. 12, 2015
DIYARBAKIR, Turkey — “We don’t want Turkey to become Syria or Diyarbakir to become Aleppo.”
Those were the words of Tahir Elci, the president of the Diyarbakir Bar Association when I spoke to him after the recent Turkish election here in this troubled city of strong Kurdish national sentiment. On the night of the vote tires smoldered and the tear-gas-heavy air stung. In the center of the old city, rubble and walls pockmarked with bullet holes attest to the violence as police confront restive Kurds.
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