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Turkey: Kurds constitute 20 percent of Turkey's 60 million citizens.
Now it is the Kurds who are defined as the "other" by Turks, Iranians, and Iraqis.
The piece also includes this ringing assessment from another expert: "The only military skill [the Iraqi Kurds] have ever demonstrated is the ability to fight each other over smuggling rights."
A story that had been lurking in the back pages for weeks--the saga of on-the-lam Kurdish leader Abdullah Ocalan--explodes today into everybody's lead with Ocalan suddenly in Turkish custody following his dramatic capture by Turkish operatives in Kenya, and Kurds across Europe rising up in often violent protest.
With no Iraqis to fight, the Kurds turned on each other . Civil war broke out in 1994, and more than 2,000 Kurds were killed before the United States brokered a peace in 1995.