Improving Turkey's "bad neighborhood": pressing Ankara for rights and democracy.

From: World Policy Journal | Date: March 22, 1998| Author: Tirman, John | Copyright information

Turkey is the worst violator of human rights among all the stalwart allies of the US. Its persecution of Kurdish minority has lasted for decades and its curtailment of freedom of association, speech and religion has included non-Kurdish Turks as well. The US has chosen to ignore these violations due to the strategic importance of Turkey and its military partnership with Israel. Although the Kurdish situation is an internal conflict, the US can influence Turkey to settle its disputes with neig...

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