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It Could Happen Here Weekly 95

Behind the Bastards

CHAPTER

The Middle East Right Is the Only Democracy in the Middle East

Kurdish education centers are designed to divert young people from becoming fighters. This isn't just an attack on like individual women it's an attack on the state which is genuinely at least attempting to establish a new form of democracy. The PKK mostly operates in the mountains of southeast Turkey and it's been fighting this asymmetrical war against the Turkish state since 1984. It's very hard to see this as not helping that lick that ISIS insurgency that they're fighting and hindering their operations.

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