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Turkey's strong reactions to rising Kurdish nationalism thus far only aggravate the feelings of alienation among its Kurdish-speaking population. Turkey's recent offensive against Kurdish rebels in northern Iraq prompted Kurdistan's Prime Minister Nechirvan Barzani to question whether the Turkish government was actually trying to target more than just the Kurdish rebels.

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