Good news: Turkey passes law to keep Kurdish children out of jail
Turkey passes law to keep Kurdish children out of jail
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The Kurdish Problem, Again
The signals coming out of Turkey’s predominantly-Kurdish southeast region and from along the border with Iraq are not comforting. In recent weeks, Turkish soldiers are being on an almost daily basis in attacks by the resurgent Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK). Turkey’s state-run news agency happily reports that 46 PKK members have been killed in the past month, failing to mention that most of them are also young Turkish citizens whose bodies will be returned home to be buried and mourned. Turkish jets have been bombing targets in Northern Iraq with increasing regularity, while Today’s Zaman reports that military checkpoints have now been reintroduced in the southeast and that a previously-abandoned ban on herders taking their flocks up to the region’s high plateaus has also been reinstated.
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