Meanings of kurdish separatism in English

Turkey, a key western ally, is fiercely opposed to Kurdish separatism.

Expressions of Kurdish culture and language were associated with Kurdish separatism, feared by the Turkish state.

Erdogan feared this would empower Kurdish separatism.

The powerful military has warned that Islamic fundamentalism rather than Kurdish separatism is the new threat to Turkey.

Neighbouring Turkey is holding army border exercises to underline its concerns Iraqi Kurdish separatism could feed insurrection on its soil.

A suicide bomb had gone off in Dyarbakir, the Kurdish -Turkish city two hundred dusty miles east, the centre of Kurdish separatism.

The Turks don't want the United States to arm the Congress's Kurdish members, fearing that it would encourage Kurdish separatism in Turkey.

Ankara views it as a terrorist group and does not want it making territorial gains that could stoke Kurdish separatism at home.

Yet religious conflict between the Shiite majority and the Sunni-controlled government, Kurdish separatism, and war with Iraq are among factors that threaten the nation's stability.