For fifteen years, and ending in 2002, the provinces Diyarbakir and Sirnak in Turkey had been under a state of emergency do to a Kurdish separatist uprising. Over 30,000 people were left dead after a decade and a half of riots and protests against the Turkish government. Finally, in 2002, military rule proved the Turkish Democratic Republican Government to be effective in suppressing the opposing forces and stopping Kurdish uprisings.
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