Putting his foot in it: Turkey. (Turkish Prime Minister Necmettin Erbakan's visit to Libya)

The Economist (US) | October 12, 1996 | Copyright

ANKARA

BE CAREFUL what you say about Kurds in Turkey. Turks unwise enough to suggest publicly that the country's big minority deserve a state of their own can be swiftly put in jail. The Turkish army has spent the past 12 years at war with the Kurdish Workers' Party (PKK), a war in which more than 20,000 guerrillas, soldiers and civilians have died. Libya's mercurial Colonel Muammar Qaddafi, however, has no time for such sensibilities.

On October 6th, at a press conference, the colonel said the unsayable, bluntly telling his guest, Turkey's prime minister, ...

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