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MADem

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6. Most certainly--it's not welcoming terrain at all.

Reply to DFW (Reply #5)

Sat Oct 10, 2015, 05:58 AM

Oct 2015

As for the Kurds, there are elements in Turkey who remain dissatisfied with the government, and Poot might be able to find troublemakers in the PKK elements, though the moderate Kurds have been getting a better deal in recent years and the persecution has abated considerably.

Turkey has been a pretty good NATO ally down the years, too. That point is salient.

We would 'owe' them, make no mistake.

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