Turkey's Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan has pledged to end a 25-year-old Kurdish rebellion by giving more rights to the minority Kurds.
But a ban on the country's main Kurdish political party — over alleged links to Kurdish rebels — is exacerbating tensions.
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