Re: Kurds

Thank you, Karl.  Any input towards building a PHB for my Turks is
useful.

Brian B2

"The Irish are the only race of people on Earth for which psychoanalysis
is 
of no use."

				 - S. Freud

>From: KH.Ranitzsch@t-online.de (K.H.Ranitzsch)
>Reply-To: gzg-l@csua.berkeley.edu
>To: <gzg-l@csua.berkeley.edu>
>Subject: Re: Kurds
>Date: Mon, 3 Dec 2001 07:58:09 +0100
>
> > I never said things would be easy for my Turks.
> >
> > >
> > >I'm > assuming that Turkey maintains it's secular
> > > > attitude, and freedom actually > improves there.
> > >Although I've still to deal with > the Kurdish
> > >question.
> > >
> > >I've been assuming the Kurds threw in with the IFed in
> > >exchange for an autonomous Kurdistan. . .
> >
> > Sounds plausible.
>
>An alternative storyline would be that the Kurds have been accomodated
with
>an autonomy settlement and the conflict has died down to manageable
levels
>(i.e.it is being waged in court and ballot box rather than with car
bombs
>and bullets)
>
>Since the capture of Abdullah Öcalan, the violence seems to have died
down
>(at least it is out of the headlines over here) and you hear of
occasional
>steps by Turkish politicians towards greater openness.
>
>This course would be especially likely if you assume the Turks manage
to
>join the EU some day. They would then go their own way after the
canonical
>EU breakup.
>
>Greetings
>Kar Heinz
>

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