A Turkish War of Religion: Kurdish Activists Sense a Conspiracy

As a Kurdish columnist at one of Turkey's largest papers - himself a graduate of a Gulen school - told me in Istanbul, "Most of the people from the southeast, if they're here and if they're successful, chances are that at some point they went through the Gulen system." Fethullah Gulen's statements on the PKK have done little to allay tensions between his group and the Kurdish militants. The movement's aim, Vahap Coskun suspects, is to imprison and intimidate as many Kurdish activists and politicians as possible - to the extent that even those opposed to the PKK have landed behind bars. "Even if the terror comes to an end, the Kurdish problem will remain because 80-90% of it has to do with language and identity." In remarks that would place him closer to the Kurdish movement than to the Turkish political mainstream, Usak argued in favor of introducing Kurdish courses at schools across all of Turkey, restoring orginal names of Kurdish towns and villages, and even, if necessary, negotiating with the PKK. At an informal meeting of local Gulenists in Diyarbakir, Celal, a physiotherapist, struck an apologetic tone when asked about the recent attacks against the schools.
Source: TIME
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