Turkey breaks new ground in southeast reconstruction
Ankara will be entering potentially hazardous territory in its unprecedented plans for reconstruction in the Kurdish southeast.
Turkey faces numerous political land mines as it prepares to rebuild war-torn areas of the Kurdish-majority southeast.
The country continues to be preoccupied by the fighting that broke out in July between government armed forces and the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK). Over the past three months, their battles spilled over from rural areas into town centers in the southeastern part of the country, which has a Kurdish majority. Government troops have cleared some populated areas of the PKK, prompting Ankara to announce plans for reconstruction of a kind it has never previously attempted.
