"southeast" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- The army's scorched-earth policy in the mainly Kurdish southeast has given it great success on the battlefield, but has not won many hearts and minds.
- While coastal regions thrive, the mainly Kurdish southeast is impoverished.
- Like many of Turkey's problems, the human rights dilemma has its roots in the Kurdish southeast.
- Turkey's war against its Kurdish guerrillas has taken 20,000 lives since 1984, mainly in the Kurdish southeast.
- More than 30,000 people have died since 1984, when the militants took up arms for a separate state in the predominantly Kurdish southeast.
- But go to Diyarbakir, capital of Turkey's largely Kurdish southeast, and you are in the Middle East, surrounded by horse-drawn carts.
- Similar scenes were played on Friday in towns across the predominantly Kurdish southeast and in Istanbul, the country's largest city.
- People loaded the corpses onto donkeys which were led down the hillside to be loaded into vehicles to be taken to hospital in the mainly Kurdish southeast of the country.
- At the beginning of the 1980's there were 25,000 Chaldean Christians living around Mardin in the predominantly Kurdish southeast of Turkey.
- Mr. Ocalan, whose Kurdistan Workers Party is fighting an 11-year-old war for control of the mainly Kurdish southeast, said the cease-fire would take effect on Friday.
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