Kobani Shakes Fragile Turkey-Kurd Relations

Kobani Shakes Fragile Turkey-Kurd Relations

Could Turkey be about to return to the bad old days of armed conflict with the Kurds?

Troops on the streets, curfews for the first time in 22 years, protests in almost 30 cities and state buildings attacked - the situation is dangerous and escalating fast.

Some of the fighting is among Kurds, between Turkey's Islamist Hezbollah group - which backs Islamic State (IS) - and supporters of the PKK, the banned Kurdistan Workers' Party, which is vehemently opposed to IS militants.

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