As It Is: "Wise People" Urge Peace in Turkey
06/06/2013
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Hello, again, and welcome.I’m Jim Tedder in Washington.Today we are off to Turkey to hear about the possibility of peace between the Turks and the Kurds.Then we travel east to Cairo to a part of the city that has huge ecological problems.We will hear about the animals that are part of the solution.And in about ten minutes, we will visit an American city whose citizens are celebrating the life of a “strange visitor from another planet.”“As It Is” is on the air!
Groups of professors, media stars and personalities have been traveling around Turkey for the past month. They all belong to the government’s “Wise People” movement. They have been explaining the government’s attempt to end fighting with the Kurdish rebel group, the PKK.
But the movement is becoming a subject of growing concern to Turkish nationalists. They fear that the peace process will lead to a self-governing state for Kurds inside Turkey, like the one in Iraq.
The leader of the Nationalist Movement Party, or MHP, strongly attacked the peace process at a recent gathering of tens of thousands of supporters. The leader, Devlet Bahceli, warned against the peace process as the crowd chanted.
“Tell us to strike and we will strike, tell us to die and we will die.”
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