The growing risk of civil war in Turkey
By David Ignatius March 3 at 6:32 PM
A top Kurdish leader warned in an interview that Turkey faces a “serious risk” of civil war as it battles Kurdish militants near its southern border. Selahattin Demirtas, the leader of the People’s Democratic Party, or HDP, spoke of the growing danger in a telephone interview Thursday from Diyarbakir, the area in southeastern Turkey that has seen sharp clashes between Turkish security forces and militants from the Kurdistan Workers’ Party, or PKK, which Turkey regards as a terrorist group.
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