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2016-10-28 The Grand Turk

Violence flares in Turkey's tense southeast after mayors' arrest

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Posted by trailing wife 2016-10-28 00:00|| || Front Page|| [2 views ] Top
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#1 Turks keep pushing this, the whole southeast will go over to the PKK and affiliated groups. If the Kurds ever get unified and armed, they'd be able to fight for, and achieve, a partition that takes out much of Turkey's best mineral and oil resource areas.

Posted by OldSpook 2016-10-28 18:34|| 2016-10-28 18:34|| Front Page Top

#2 Erdogan Bey "the much beloved" can't help pushing, or so it seems to me. The alternative, in his mind, is watching while the Kurds take over by dint of a higher birth rate.

Posted by trailing wife 2016-10-28 23:01|| 2016-10-28 23:01|| Front Page Top

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