Kurds
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Can Turkey seize the ‘Kurdish card’ for itself?
By Soner Cagaptay, Special to CNN Editor’s note: Soner Cagaptay is the Beyer Family fellow and director of the Turkish Research Program at The Washington […]
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How Turkey Can Make Peace With the Kurds
in TurkeyHow Turkey Can Make Peace With the Kurds By ALIZA MARCUS THE assassination of three Kurdish activists in Paris last week has raised fears that […]
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Kurdish Leader: Turkey Will Impede Kurdish Aspirations in post-Assad Syria
in SyriaBy ADIB ABDULMAJID image Turkish troops deployed along the Turkish-Syrian border, Oct. 2012. Photo: AFP. AMSTERDAM, Netherlands – Turkey opposes greater political power for Syrian […]
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The Balkanization of Iran
in IranIran has always presented a thorn in the eye of Western policy makers since the Pahlavi dynasty and its resurgent nationalism. Being strategically located in […]
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Kurdish prisoners in Turkey end hunger strike
in TurkeyHundreds of Kurdish prisoners have ended a 68-day hunger strike after an appeal from jailed former leader Abdullah Ocalan. The prisoners were demanding more rights […]
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New Statistics Reveal the Size of Turkey’s Kurdish Population
in TurkeyThe most populated cities of Turkey are Istanbul, Konya, Urfa, Diyarbakir and Izmir, consecutively. Photo: AFP. DIYARBAKIR, Turkey – The Turkish Statistical Institute (TurkStat) recently […]