Fears Grow Turkey Will Intensify Crackdown on Kurds

Despite seven deaths Monday in Turkey’s predominantly Kurdish southeast the Turkish government has promised no let up in security operations against the Kurdish rebel group, the PKK.   Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu says Turkey will take the fight to Kurdish militants to prevent them from “spreading fire."   Senior Turkey researcher Emma Sinclair Webb of the U.S. based Human Rights Watch has recently visited the center of the conflict in the predominantly Kurdish...

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