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ANKARA, Turkey — Turkey’s government is planning a broad series of investments worth as much as $12 billion in the country’s largely Kurdish southeast, in a new economic initiative intended to create jobs and draw young men away from militancy, Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan said.
The program is intended to drain support for the militant Kurdistan Workers’ Party by improving the lives of Turkey’s impoverished Kurdish minority, Erdogan told The New York Times on Tuesday.
