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Turkey and the Kurds
Fifteen years ago, Abdullah Ocalan, the leader of Turkey's rebel Kurdish group was arrested. We hear why the relationship between Turkey and the Kurds has long been fraught.
In 1999, Abdullah Ocalan, the leader of Turkey's Kurdish rebel group, the PKK, was arrested. He has been in jail ever since. We hear why the relationship between the Turkish state and the Kurds is so fraught, from the Kurdish political activist Adem Uzun.
(Photo: Turkish Kurds hold posters of Abdullah Ocalan. Credit: AP)
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Thu 23 Oct 2014
07:50GMT
麻豆社 World Service Online
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