Turkey

The Turkish government has started broadcasting in Kurdish, a key signal that it is intent on implementing - rather than just introducing - reforms to improve minority rights in order to meet the Copenhagen criteria vital to its EU accession hopes. However, while we see little risk to the government's domestic political reform agenda, continued instability in Iraq, continues to pose a risk. Crucially, Iraqi Kurdish leaders appear to have been alienated by the exclusion of Kurds from the top two posts in Iraq's transitional government and, in a leaked letter to President Bush, suggested that they would push for

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