http://www.bigtripblog.com/archives/80 Going around the world so you don't have to! Fri, 21 Nov 2008 16:00:44 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.4 http://www.bigtripblog.com/archives/80#comment-66 Sat, 04 Nov 2006 04:04:38 +0000 http://www.bigtripblog.com/archives/80#comment-66 It's hard to tell by just visiting, and nobody told us anything about what they felt toward the government. We knew about the situation with the PKK beforehand, so we could only assume that there are some people out there who feel very strongly. Apparently the way the parliamentary system works, the Kurds aren't likely to get enough votes to have their own party represented because of the minimum percentage. I'm sure wikipedia has much more info! It’s hard to tell by just visiting, and nobody told us anything about what they felt toward the government. We knew about the situation with the PKK beforehand, so we could only assume that there are some people out there who feel very strongly. Apparently the way the parliamentary system works, the Kurds aren’t likely to get enough votes to have their own party represented because of the minimum percentage. I’m sure wikipedia has much more info!

]]> http://www.bigtripblog.com/archives/80#comment-57 Sat, 28 Oct 2006 17:16:36 +0000 http://www.bigtripblog.com/archives/80#comment-57 Did you get any sense that the Kurds are persecuted by the Turkish government? Did you get any sense that the Kurds are persecuted by the Turkish government?

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