Thursday, September 2, 2010

Turkey’s Silent Crisis

Foreign Policy
By Henri J. Barkey
August 31, 2010
 
As he sat down to have coffee on a sweltering August day in Istanbul, the first words my interlocutor, a well-known Kurdish intellectual named Orhan Miroglu, uttered were about the death of his three cousins in his ancestral village in Batman, a province in the heart of the Kurdish region of Turkey. Full Text