Country Overview - Turkey

addition, they called Turkish authorities, and claim the responsibility for these bombings. Since that time, the Turkish government has declared that PKK is a terrorist group, and there would be no negotiations with them. Above all of this, in 1991 the Turkish intelligence has learned that other European countries have supported the PKK. Countries such as Greece, Germany, Syria, and Iraq have been helping them with their ammunition and artillery supply. In addition the Turkish intelligence has found out that PKK is selling drugs to the European countries and earning incredible profits in hard currency. After a couple of years, PKK announced that their headquarters is in Syria, and their leader is Abdullah Ocalan. Immediately following this, the Turkish government contacted the Syrian authorities and asked them to get rid of the PKK terrorists. However, the Syrian government denied all of these allegations and didn't make any effort in locating these terrorists.
             In the past couple of years, the Turkish and Kurdish problem has grown rapidly with thousands of casualties from both sides. On the other hand, Turkey has accepted Kurdish people and given them Turkish citizenship and equal rights as any ordinary Turkish citizen has. This didn't stop PKK from their terrorist attacks. The problem actually got worse because those Kurds that chose to accept the citizenship, angered the remaining Kurds that will settle for nothing less than the land that they feel is theirs. The terrorist attacks were done only in the country region, and not in the major cities like Istanbul. These attacks took place at night. The terrorists would come from Syria at night, and sneak over the Turkish border. They would then attack the villages, killing the civilians and soldiers before crossing the border back to Syria. Their advantage was to know the region's landscape to the best of their knowledge. The region was a rugged terrain full of mount...

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