A FUNNY CRISIS POPE !

Erdogan “actually did more for the Kurds than anyone up until now,” said Hugh Pope, senior Turkey analyst with the ICG, in a CNN interview last month. “

(But) when a wave of massive arrests of legitimate Kurdish politicians began, that’s when I think young people especially lost hope and the PKK’s arguments for the legitimacy of armed struggle became persuasive to them.”

http://edition.cnn.com/2012/10/24/world/europe/turkey-kurd-hunger-strike/index.html