Thank you, Skunk.
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Under Turkey's constitution, Kurds are prohibited from speaking their language publicly, giving their children Kurdish names and practicing any customs that might betray their identity.
Promised reforms by Ankara's Islamic oriented government - educational rights and two hours of Kurdish broadcasts every week - have failed to be implemented. And, say human rights activists, all the signs show that the war has given rise to renewed repression.
Most Turks claim the towns of Kirkuk and Mosul as their own. It was, they say, only because of successive rebellions by the perfidious Kurds in their republic's early years, that the oil-rich region ended up being part of modern Iraq, under British administration.
It is testimony to the level of emotion evoked by the Kurdish issue that while Turks are overwhelmingly against the war, they wholeheartedly endorse their army sending troops into northern Iraq in order to quash Kurdish nationalism.
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No better than Saddam if you ask me.
I'm sorry I forgot to add the Thanks when I posted. [img]smile.gif[/img]
[ 04-10-2003, 10:18 AM: Message edited by: Lil Lil ]