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This week a court case begins to decide whether Turkey's ruling party should be banned. The Justice and Development Party (AKP) is being charged with moving the secular nation towards Islamic rule.
Conditions may have improved for Turkey's Kurds but the future is still uncertain. Following pro PKK riots, 250 children are now facing lengthy prison sentences.
A brief overview of the Turkish Mevlevi Order and ita impact on electronic music as performed by Canadian/Turkish artist Mercan Dede. We see how the performance of the Whirling Dervishes is moving forward with modern times and how a young generation in Istanbul think about its influence and the Turkish society as a modern democracy.
Across South-East Turkey Kurdish homes lie crumbling, long abandoned to the elements.
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A harrowing account of political repression in Turkey and its horrific consequences. In a country where radical left-wing parties are banned and all criticism of the state is not tolerated, we meet the young people prepared to fast themselves to death to preserve their political integrity.
As Turkey gears up to build the GAP Dam project, ABC Australia asks at what price? Archaeological and historical sites are set to be drowned underwater, and Kurds' livelihoods destroyed.
The fight for a Kurdish state has been led for over forty years by wealthy landowners. But now a new force has emerged; the PKK, or Kurdish Workers' Party.
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