Turkey to Split from Western Alliance?


	Turkey to Split from Western Alliance?

abailart

10-22-2007 3:25 AM

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turkey, secularisation, iraq, kurdistan

abailart says:

Turkey's 80 years project to enforce secularisation has always been disturbed by its Islamist population, and ethnic 'groupings' such as the Kurds (who make up a fifth of the people). This inherent instability is relevant to a nation that is seeking European membership on one hand, and looking to Syria as an ally in hunting down the militant Kurdish PKK>

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for Turkey’s Kurdish population. Yesterday, the PKK killed more than 17
Turkish soldiers, putting the Government under more pressure to act. A
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Recep Tayyip Erdogan, makes plain in his interview with The Times, the Turks
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