They had benefited by the protection of the NATO alliance and the alliance with the United States. and they have been an important ally of ours. It is. frankly. a more complicated world in which we now live. When it was us and them. it was easy to point fingers at the Warsaw Pact nations and say they are awful. they are violating human rights. they are not allowing people to emigrate. and we were all united on that because after that. that was then. and we were us. It is. as the gentleman from New Jersey said. more difficult to look a friend in the eye and say. "Friend. youre not acting properly. youre not complying with the rules of the Helsinki Final Act of the Uniform Declaration of Human Rights. and you are abusing your Kurdish citizens." In fact. my colleagues. nonKurds in Turkey. if they happen to be in prison. have their human rights violated egregiously. I have met on countless times with the Ambassador from Turkey in private because it was not my desire to confront Turkey in a public way. But frankly. my colleagues. I do not believe the Prime Minister. Madam Ciller. is in control of the actions of the Turkish military as we see thousands upon thousands upon thousands of refugees created. warring on their own citizens. Yes. the PKK is a problem. They are terrorists. and the Turkish Government has a responsibility to its people and to its nation to confront that terrorism.
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