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To: SilentZ who wrote (225241)	3/20/2005 2:59:34 PM
From: tejek	Respond to of 1572408

"In Turkey, a civil war between the Kurds and Turks has been going on for the last ten years; approximately 15,000 people have been killed so far ("Time to Talk Turkey, p. 9, 1995). The Turks launched an invasion they called Operation Steel against the Kurds in March 1995, sending 35,000 troops against them, but the plan backfired, as only 158 Kurdish rebels were killed in the first week (Possant, Doxey,& Borrus, p. 57, 1995). To sum up the Turks attitude toward the Kurds,Tansu Ciller, the Turkish prime minister, said, "Turkey has no Kurdish problem, only a terrorist problem" (Marcus, p. 9, 1994)." studyworld.com "The British newspaper 'European' published pictures of Turkish soldiers proudly posing with the decapitated remains of fallen Kurdish guerrillas. The pictures published here are evidence of a savagery that took place in April 1995 in the district of Hakkari in the Kurdish regions of southeastern Turkey." diaspora-net.org These are many of the human rights violations that have kept Turkey out of the EU. Turkey has a violent and aggressive history. Just in the twentieth century, they have gone after the Greeks, Armenians, Assyrians and now the Kurds. I suspect that because they want into the EU so badly, the genocidal killing of Kurds has probably stopped. However, the fighting between the Kurds' PPK and the Turks continues in southeastern Turkey. ted