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[HyeFinder] Behind the Turkey-Kurdish Conflict | HyeFinder: Iran has also made similar complaints against the Pejak group of Iranian Kurdish guerrillas who are attacking Iran and Iran has already retaliated with incursions and attacks on their bases. (The Pejak group although formerly a terrorist organisation is supported by the CIA as part of US efforts to de-stabilize the Iranian regime.)

[More News of Turkey] Kurds threaten Turkish government with civil disobedience | More ...: The Kurds, who until recently were widely referred to not as a distinct ethnic group but as “mountain Turks”, want the right to use their own language in public and official settings and to be educated in their mother tongue. They also want more regional autonomy to be able to run their own affairs.

[Patrick Mac Manus's Blog] Kurds could revolt if grievances aren't fixed « Patrick Mac ...: The PKK, classified as a terrorist organisation by the European Union and the United States, waged an armed campaign against the Turkish state in southeast Turkey that aimed at independence for the Kurds. Compared with ETA in Spain and the IRA in Northern Ireland, whose armed campaigns killed hundreds respectively, the PKK’s armed insurgency was bloodier and the death toll has reached more than 40,000 people since 1984.

[TODAYonline] TODAYonline | Entertainment | Music | Turkey's Kurds slowly build ...: Concessions by the government of Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan in 2009 made way for the first Kurdish national TV station, and the government also permitted the teaching of Kurdish language classes in private universities (but not public ones). But Erdogan's government, guarding its tenuous majority in parliament on the verge of the elections, has assumed a more and more hawkish line lately.

[Patrick Mac Manus's Blog] Turkey: Kurds Boycott Mosques for Language Rights « Patrick Mac ...: Diay-der, a group of retired Kurdish imams and Islamic scholars, launched the boycott to change that status. Diay-der head Zahit Cirtkuran says that the protest started after Diyanet, the state body that controls and administers the Islamic faith, including the appointment of Turkey’s imams and the writing of sermons, ignored their appeals for reform.

[KurdNet News ekurd.net] Iraqi Kurds believe foreign interference is holding up Article 140: Kirkuki admitted that the neighboring countries such as Iran and Turkey as well the United States and United Kingdom and France can influence the situation, “but they say it is an Iraqi issue and Article 140 is part of the constitution, which should be respected.”

[Pacific Views] Pacific Views: Turkey vs. France. And the Kurds.: They are definitely opposed to the Kurds setting up an independent state that would then have even more leverage to encourage dissent among Turkish Kurds and support the Kurdish separatists in Turkey that freely cross .

[RealClearWorld - Articles] RealClearWorld - Can the Kurds Tip the Scales in Syria?: Stateless and suppressed under four decades of Baath Party rule and unconvinced by recent concessions to them by President Bashar al-Assad, a debate is raging among Syria's Kurds, the largest ethnic minority. The argument is over whether to throw their full weight behind the campaign to topple the regime, a weight opposition organizers hope could prove a tipping point.

[Transforming Eden - Praying for the Region of Biblical Eden] Kurdish-AKP Relations of Past 10 Years | Transforming Eden: Nevertheless, the Kurdish Peace and Democracy Party (BDP) emphasised that the new constitution should recognise autonomy for Kurds and education in the Kurdish language. Moreover, Abdullah Ocalan, who retains his power over the Kurdish movement even from his jail cell, warned that "all hell will break loose" if fully-fledged negotiations for a settlement between himself and the Turkish government do not commence after the elections.

[Patrick Mac Manus's Blog] Can the Kurds tip the scales in Syria? « Patrick Mac Manus's Blog: Stateless and suppressed under four decades of Baath Party rule and unconvinced by recent concessions to them by President Bashar al-Assad, a debate is raging among Syria’s Kurds, the largest ethnic minority. The argument is over whether to throw their full weight behind the campaign to topple the regime, a weight opposition organizers hope could prove a tipping point.

[wedding dresses for plus size women] Kurds Unite in Southern Turkey in Run-Up to Election: “We had this demand of the Diyanet which controls religion in Turkey to have the sermons in our native language, because according to Islam you’re obliged to listen and to understand what is being said. But our demands were ignored,”

[Karim .A.H.A. Hasan's Blog] In reference to the New York Times' article “For Kurds in Turkey ...: My reading which may not be 100% accurate, accurate enough to rely on, Turkey is under enormous pressure to adopt a new policy of democracy and openness internally and externally to resist popular uprisings which have dominated the Middle East since 2009 elections in Iran, which have materialized and accumulated more popular support this year in Egypt, Tunisia, Libya, Yemen, Jordan, Syria…etc. Turkey has been akin to this process and has been making possible effort to cool down Syria protest, which are more crucial and may pose danger to its dictatorial and uni-ethnic state identity.

[Patrick Mac Manus's Blog] Kurds' struggle: Dynamite under the ... - Patrick Mac Manus's Blog: Turkish officials feel that the United States does not want to antagonize Iraqi Kurds, perhaps the only genuinely pro-American faction on the tormented Iraqi battlefield. Turkish and Greek analysts, unusually in agreement on this issue, claim that Washington wants to establish a firm base in Iraq’s Kurdish areas in order to control Middle Eastern oil routes.

[BrothersJudd Blog] BrothersJudd Blog: THERE IS NO TURKEY:: For months pro-Kurdish activists have been staging rallies that during recent weeks have increasingly turned into violent confrontations with the police in this heavily Kurdish region of the southeast. Capitalizing on the Arab Spring and the general state of turmoil in that part of the world, as well as on Turkey’s vocal support for Egyptian reformers, the Kurds here have been looking toward elections to press longstanding claims for broader parliamentary representation and more freedoms, political and cultural.

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