US to debate Turkey genocide bill

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http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21553151/

"Boosted profile for ‘emboldened’ Kurdish rebels
Kurdistan Workers’ Party in spotlight after years of drifting, factionalism
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Now the Kurdistan Workers’ Party has commandeered debate over Turkey’s Kurdish ethnic minority with attacks that goaded the government into threatening a cross-border offensive against separatist hideouts in Iraq.
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The PKK, estimated to have 5,000 fighters, could benefit politically from an Iraq campaign by claiming to be the champion of all Kurds in the face of an invader with a history of human rights abuses. "

an invader with a history of human rights abuses (ouch)

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Al Jazeera film documents Armenian massacre of Turks

An interesting headline from Hurriyet online. The story's here