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February 7, 2013

A Kurdish Spring in Turkey?

The Guardian, The Guardian

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Optimism has broken out prematurely several times in the past 30 years of conflict between the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) and Turkey. An embryonic deal in 2009 on the return of 34 PKK fighters from Iraq ended in chaos. A popular demonstration proclaiming victory prompted government anger, a further wave of arrests, court charges and some of the fighters fleeing. Neither side had prepared. The same cannot be said this time.

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