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In Turkey, meanwhile, hardline Kemalists still wonder why it was the US which in 1999 delivered the separatist Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) leader Abdullah Ocalan to the Turkish authorities in Kenya. But last month Aytac Yalman, a newly retired commander of the Turkish Army and a hardline Kemalist, said that was part of a larger US master plan aimed to remove Ocalan as a potential rival to Barzani and Talabani. With Ocalan eliminated, he said, the two Kurdish leaders' room to manoeuvre would be enhanced as would their dependency on the US.
While many Turkish columnists ridiculed Yalman, Barzani and Talabani were giving expression to a deep sense of insecurity which many Turks, especially the hardline Kemalists, feel at the onslaught of change in their neighbourhood and at home. Change at home is being driven by EU-induced reforms and the prospect... |
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