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fasttense Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-17-07 07:55 AM
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27. It seems that from the beginning, the Kurds were cheated.
"The Treaty of Sevres (1920) provided for an autonomous Kurdistan but was never implemented. Turkey has long considered Kurds to be merely “Mountain Turks.” A ban on speaking Kurdish in Turkey has been lifted and Kurdish broadcasts there are now legal, but other expressions of Kurdish culture are restricted."

http://www.cfr.org/publication/9241/

They ignore treaties then ban their culture, now they label them communist and socialist. I wonder if the Kurdistan Workers’ Party is really the threat Turkey seems to think they are?
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