Turkey’s Wars: Quelling Kurdish Uprisings, and Suffering From Terror Attacks<br />Government tanks rolled in last year to crush a Kurdish uprising here<br />and in several other places, leaving little behind — some of these city centers are practically ghost towns, and the Kurds who still live here seem haunted, too.<br />"This place is very dangerous."<br />He rolled up his sleeve to show the scar he carries after one attack here by the P.K.K., the Kurdish separatist group<br />that encouraged last year’s uprisings in this region and is widely listed as a terrorist organization.<br />One big attack in particular — when an ISIS gunman killed 39 people early New Year’s Day at Reina, a<br />noted Istanbul nightclub — seemed to strike right at the city’s reputation as a hub for night life.<br />The mayor here was recently arrested and replaced by a state "trustee," one of more<br />than 80 elected Kurds who have recently been replaced by government edict.<br />"We’re just waiting." Turkey is suffering from two different terrorism campaigns: one led by the Islamic State, and the other by Kurdish separatists.<br />But their new landlord later needed their apartment for his own displaced family, so they moved to this village. Fearing<br />that both the security forces and Kurdish militants might harass them if the family were identified, they asked me not to use their names.<br />By PATRICK KINGSLEY In Kurdish areas of Turkey, fear<br />and destruction have returned as facts of life after government offensives leveled parts of rebellious cities.
