So where is Kurdistan?(treatment of ethnic Kurds by Turkey) From: The Economist (US) | Date: June 10, 2000 | COPYRIGHT 2000 Economist Newspaper Ltd. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

There's no such place, says Turkey's government. It has a point

AT THE time of the Kosovo crisis last year, Anna Lindh, the Swedish foreign minister, mused on the sort of human-rights abuses that might lead to the horror of ethnic cleansing. The first example she chose was that of the Kurds in Turkey, who, she said, "are denied their language, cultural identity and democratic rights". So is Turkey an incipient Serbia, and are the Kurds future Kosovars awaiting their Armageddon?

Not exactly. Under Turkish law, people can be sent to jail for broadcasting in Kurdish, ...

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