Plainclothes police officers tear down a billboard with a picture of imprisoned Kurdish rebel leader Abdullah Ocalan in Diyarbakir February 11, 2014. The face of jailed Kurdish rebel chief Ocalan briefly beamed down from billboards in southeast Turkey until police tore down the posters, a mark of official unease over his enduring influence among Kurds as local elections loom. The slogan on the billboard reads in Turkish and Kurdish " With free leadership to free life". Picture taken February 11, 2014. To ma

Is fate of Kurdish issue tied to Erdogan's future?

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Plainclothes police officers tear down a billboard with a picture of imprisoned Kurdish rebel leader Abdullah Ocalan in Diyarbakir February 11, 2014. The face of jailed Kurdish rebel chief Ocalan briefly beamed down from billboards in southeast Turkey until police tore down the posters, a mark of official unease over his enduring influence among Kurds as local elections loom. The slogan on the billboard reads in Turkish and Kurdish " With free leadership to free life". Picture taken February 11, 2014. To ma

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