November 1, 2007
The effects of northern Iraq on Turkey 's Kurds are more complex than they seem STANDING by the stream that separates the hamlet of Ovakoy from northern Iraq , Hisyar Ozalp, a young Kurdish lawyer, gestures towards a cluster of pink houses on the opposite bank. “That is Kurdistan ,” he says. “And so is this.” Any conversation in Ovakoy shows why Turkey is so nervous about the effect of the Iraqi Kurds' semi-independent statelet. “I don't like Turkish, it's no good,” declares Fatma, a five-year-old, using the commonest Kurdish dialect. A gaggle of Turkish conscripts stares in mute incomprehension. Full Text
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