Turkey Treats Kurds Fairly

I disagree with your editorial ``The Case for The Kurds,'' March 25.

The PKK (Marxist-Leninist Kurdish Workers Faction), which has been terrorizing the region for years, is based in Lebanon and Iraq, and these two countries have been exploiting the terrorist groups at the expense of the Turkish republic.

Turkey still hosts thousands of Iraqi Kurds who fled Saddam Hussein in Iraq in the late 1980s. The Turkish and Kurdish villages have survived hardships and misfortunes together throughout the centuries. Fuat Ulus, Altoona, Pa.

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