Turkey: The Kurdish Problem
Although Turkey has gained greater prominence in the news due to the influx of Serbian refugees into its borders, it is also struggling with another problem, namely the ethnic tensions pertaining to Kurdish separatists besieging critical areas. Like many Middle Eastern nations, despite its relative close proximity to Europe, Turkey is home to a wide variety of different ethnic groups with various religious affiliations, including the Kurds. The southeast of Turkey is home to a majority population of Kurds, which has sown the seeds of a longstanding civil war. Kurdish separatists have long been engaging in violent resistance against the government of Turkey, demanding their own separate state. Although the violence has existed for many decades, recent skirmishes have been characterized as "the worst seen in the past two decades" (Tharoor 2016). This is due in no small part to the recently emboldened Turkish separatist groups within Syria itself. Turkey must tread a delicate balance between honoring the rights of the Kurdish minority while still curtailing separatist violence. It must also work to ensure that ethnic rivalries between Kurds and Turks do not become further enflamed and result in ethnic tensions becoming a source of discrimination against innocent minorities. Many of these goals put it in conflict with other Western powers, including the United States, who are mainly concerned about limiting the influence of the Islamic State within Syria and abroad and are less concerned about the growing influence of Kurdish militancy which could further destabilize Turkey.
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