Turkey
Turkey is a country, which is located between two continents. These are Europe and Asia. Its neighbors are Greece, in the west, Iran and Iraq in the east, at north lies Russia, and in south is the Mediterranean Sea. It is a very geologically important country. The reason for that is that Turkey controls three different seas, which are the Black Sea, the Aegean Sea, and the Mediterranean Sea. The country has a very long history. It is the continuation of the old Ottoman Empire, which has ruled the whole Europe, part of Africa, and most of the Middle East for over three hundred years. This great history makes most of its neighbors very uncomfortable. Over these years, Turkey has been faced with a lot of problems from its neighbors. One of these is the Kurdish problem.At this point, I would like to introduce you the Kurds. The Kurds are the people who live in the Northern part of Iraq, southwest of Iran, and southeastern part of Turkey. The Kurds claim that they are a nation and after the Serv Agreement they requested a considerable piece of land from those three countries. However, the land that they claim theirs is almost half of Turkey and the north part of Iraq. Both countries deny this and they both stated that not
On the other hand the Kurds will not stop doing terrorist acts until they get what they want. After researching and writing this paper, I understood better that even if it takes Turkey to lose another fifty thousand people, it will not help the Kurds to get what they want. In my opinion, what the Kurds should do, is to use the opportunity given by the Turkish government to them, and live with in Turkey having the same rights as the rest of the Turkish citizens. I realize that Turkey as a whole will not give a square foot of land of their land to the Kurds or anyone else, especially terrorists because it was very hard for them to earn their independence and land. The Turkish army has been fighting with Kurdish terrorists (PKK, Kurdish Independence Party) for over fifteen years now. In this regional war, Turkish government has spent ninety billion dollars and lost fifty five thousand civilians and soldiers. The war between the PKK and the Turkish army has no rules. Turkish villages have been attacked, bombed, burned to the ground, and most importantly the residents of these villages have been shot in front of their children by PKK. As a conclusion the problem between the Turks and the Kurds really evolved approximately twenty years ago, and is growing rapidly. The Turkish government has accepted the PKK as a terrorist group and they are refusing to sit down and discuss anything with them. Another important information that caught my attention was that a person may get the death penalty, but their sentence may be changed to life in prison without parole. The reason for this is, it takes two thirds of the Turkish Parliament's vote to decide the fate of the person being accused, or to carry out the death penalty. The records that I requested from the Turkish justice department, show that in the past twenty five years, with seventeen people on trial, no prisoner has yet to be put to death by the Parliament. However, Ocalan is considered the jackal of Turkey, and it is now a huge controversy whether the death penalty will or will not be approved. As of 1996 the Turkish army crossed the Iraqi border, and began battling with the terrorists. On the other hand, the Kurds were broadcasting untrue information, claiming that the Turkish army was killing regular Kurdish citizens.
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Approximate Pages = 10 (250 words per page double spaced)
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