Turkey’s War on the Kurds
The Turkish state is deploying the word "terrorist" to mask its brutal repression of the Kurds.
Articles by: Belén Fernández
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Belén Fernández is the author of The Imperial Messenger: Thomas Friedman at Work, Marytrs Never Die: Travels through South Lebanon, and, most recently, Exile: Rejecting America and Finding the World. She is a contributing editor at Jacobin.
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