ethnic cleansing in turkey

By the mid-1990s attacks on Kurds by Washington's Turkish ally reached new levels of violence; one index is the flight of over a million Kurds from the devastated countryside to the unofficial Kurdish capital Diyarbakir from 1990 to 1994, many more later. 1994 marked two records: it was 'the year of the worst repression in the Kurdish prvinces' of Turkey, Jonathan Randal reported from the scene, and the year when Turkey became 'the single biggest importer of American military hardware and thus the world's largest arms purchaser', using the gifts in ways that Saddam doubtless appreciated. The mounting terror, still underway, made an impressive contribution to the ethnic cleansing of the 1990s, leaving about 3,500 villages destroyed, tens of thousands killed, some 2 to 3 million refugees, right within NATO and under the jurisdiction of the Council of Europe and the European Court of Human Rights...