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...member states, a key condition for the talks. "The government has lost its focus," says Cengiz Aktar, a political scientist at Galatasaray University. The result is an increasingly divided society and, in Turkey's volatile southeast where most Kurds live, a greater number of abuses by the authorities, claims Selahattin Demirtas of the Human Rights Association in Diyarbakir. "The verdict by the European Court on Ocalan only reinforces the idea [in Turkish minds] that Kurds are to blame," he says. E.U. officials monitoring Turkey's pro-gress toward accession talks say the recent problems are no reason to push...
...Turkish security forces have limited their crackdown after Kurdish militants called off a cease-fire in June. And the promise of democratic reform has helped undermine the rebels' justification for violence. "Turkey has made more progress in the past two years than in its 80-year history," argues Selahattin Demirtas, head of the Human Rights Association in Diyarbakir, which in the past has sharply criticized government abuses. It's ironic that these successes are thanks largely to the efforts of a conservative, pro-Islamic government. Erdogan was jailed in 1998 for violating Turkey's ban on the mixing of religion...
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