Witness History: Archive 2014

Turkey and the Kurds


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In 1999, Abdullah Ocalan, the leader of Turkey's Kurdish rebel group, the PKK, was arrested. He has been in jail ever since. We hear why the relationship between the Turkish state and the Kurds is so fraught, from the Kurdish political activist Adem Uzun.

(Photo: Turkish Kurds hold posters of Abdullah Ocalan. Credit: AP)

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