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Tuesday, July 13, 2010

Turkey:State policy against the Kurdish minority ..[ 1450 ]

Ankara reviews PKK recruitment

( UPI )Published: July 13, 2010 at 12:57 PM
ANKARA, Turkey, July 13 (UPI) -- State policy against the Kurdish minority and cultural repression of women is creating more recruits for the Kurdistan Workers' Party, intelligence reports say.

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in a conversation Monday with her Turkish counterpart Ahmet Davutoglu expressed her commitment to the fight against the Kurdish terrorist group known by its Turkish initials PKK.

Kurdish women taking water

"The PKK remains a common enemy of Turkey, the United States and Iraq and is a threat to the stability of the region," a U.S. State Department spokesman said. "And we continue to support efforts by Turkey and Iraq to deal with the problem of the PKK."

A report by the Turkish police academy's International Terrorism Center said migration from rural areas to urban communities was putting stress on families in the Kurdish south of Turkey. The report found that migration was being used as an incentive to join the separatist organization, Turkey's daily newspaper Today's Zaman reports.

"Anger at the state, some mistakes of the past, forcing people out of villages, threats from soldiers and public humiliation have caused immense resentment among the people," the report read. "Joining the PKK and taking up arms has been shown by the PKK as the only way to get out."
The report also found that women were finding the militant group attractive because its policies toward them was moderate compared to the general view in Turkey, Today's Zaman added

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