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Turkey's Ties With ISIL Continue to Arouse Suspicions

Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant militants continue to score victories across Iraq. For neighbor Turkey, there is growing concern over ISIL's growing power, particularly in its predominantly Kurdish southeast, which borders Iraq and Syria. In Diyarbakir, as in the rest of Turkey's predominantly Kurdish southeast, many Kurds are religious. That, analysts say, and decades of economic underdevelopment and conflict, with the Kurds fighting for minority rights, have helped make...

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