Turkey Links Suicide Bomber in Istanbul to Kurdish Separatists? Summarize?
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/04/world/europe/04turkey.html?ref=turkey Can you summarize this so it's more understandable to an eighth grade student?
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The NY Times is only written at the 9th grade level. Is it really that difficult to understand? So like this Turkish dude who is from a Kurdish Region of Turkey (do you know who the Kurds are? If not do a quick Wikipedia) decided to strap a bomb to his a$$ and take out himself plus 32 other people. The only problem is that he wasn't very good at his job and he's the only one that met his maker. Before this very sad event, the Kurdish illegal rebel group (called the PKK) had been enjoying a 2-month cease fire with the Turkish Government. Even though the PKK denied the attack and wanted to extend the cease-fire by another 8 months, everyone knows that 24 year old (now dead) Vedat Acar joined this really bad gang in 2004. He was likely training at a PKK camp in Iraq before returning to Turkey on in August. The Kurds are Turkey's largest minority and many hope for a peaceful resolution to the current fight which has already killed 40,000 since the early 1980s. Read up on the Kurds which I think is the only confusing part of this article unless you are confusing the country where this happened and the bird you are getting ready to eat on Thursday. Very different.
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