Kurdishmedia-Since the Armenian genocide, Turkey has done very well to hide and disguise its dark history from the international community. But a shady past rarely dawns a bright future.
ANKARA, Washington Post- An imprisoned Kurdish rebel leader called on his guerrilla fighters to declare a new cease-fire as rebel attacks targeting civilians and foreign tourists have drawn global criticism, his lawyer said Thursday.
BRUSSELS / 4 September 2006 / by Dan Bilefsky
European Union lawmakers on Monday sharply criticized Turkey for its slow pace of reform and warned that failure to make progress in a dispute over Cyprus risked bringing entry negotiations to a halt.
Sep 8th 2005 | ANKARA Economist.com- THE history of Kurdish rebellions against Turkish authority goes back to the Ottoman era; there have been 29 of them in all. The latest—launched in 1984 by the separatist Kurdistan Workers’ Party, known as the PKK—has claimed nearly 40,000 lives. Yet, even at the height of that bloodshed, many ordinary Turks and Kurds, helped by a common Muslim faith, coexisted quite happily.
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Kurdishmedia-Since the Armenian genocide, Turkey has done very well to hide and disguise its dark history from the international community. But a shady past rarely dawns a bright future.
ANKARA, Washington Post- An imprisoned Kurdish rebel leader called on his guerrilla fighters to declare a new cease-fire as rebel attacks targeting civilians and foreign tourists have drawn global criticism, his lawyer said Thursday.
BRUSSELS / 4 September 2006 / by Dan Bilefsky
European Union lawmakers on Monday sharply criticized Turkey for its slow pace of reform and warned that failure to make progress in a dispute over Cyprus risked bringing entry negotiations to a halt.