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- WORLD, Page 47World NotesREFUGEESBallot by Bullet
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- When Turkish Premier Suleyman Demirel ruled out granting full
- autonomy to 10 million Turkish Kurds last week, his decision
- marked yet another crushing blow to this long-suffering Muslim
- people with a distinct language and history of its own.
- Demirel's announcement came in the wake of the worst fighting
- between the Turkish government forces and Kurdish guerrillas
- since 1984.
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- Just across the border to the south, Iraqi President
- Saddam Hussein was reported to be rushing reinforcements for yet
- another possible bloody crackdown on his country's nearly 4
- million Kurds. Iraqi Kurds are worried that Saddam may be
- planning to mount a full-scale offensive to regain his control
- over their territories, which he lost after the gulf war.
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- The Kurds have been pinning their hopes for self-rule on
- elections for an independent assembly. But many fear that unless
- international pressure stops Saddam's army, the soldiers could
- cast the decisive ballots.
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