The Kurdish Problem in Turkey
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Table of Contents
- Introduction.
- Turkey's key internal conflict.
- How do aspiring democratic societies extend democratic discourse into the sensitive realm of security issues?
- The late President Turgut Ozal: Impact in reversing Turkey's traditional policy of denying the existence of the Kurds.
- Kurdish assimilation into the over-all Turkish population.
- Why did the Turkish authorities begin to reassess their position?
- The response of many Turks to Ozal's proposal to rescind Law 2932.
- The reforms made by Ozal.
- Conclusion.
- Bibliography.
Abstract
The "kurdish issue" is turkey's most difficult and painful problem, one that presents a vast moral dilemma for the country. The issue feeds turkey's continuing inflation and is the major source of human rights violations and the biggest irritant in turkey's relations with the European Union. Its most pronounced manifestation, the war in the southeast against kurdish insurgents, has left countless thousands dead and many hundreds of thousands displaced. Despite the massive Turkish military effort and some significant gains in coping with the kurdish Workers' party (PKK) insurgency, the fighting continues after forty years, although it has not reached the major cities of turkey and many have long predicted. (Gunter 2004). The kurdish conflict is in essence an ethnic problem, and not one of simple terrorism or economics, although both terrorism and economic hardship are indeed part of the current crisis.
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