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Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan speaks to the media after a meeting with Ahmet Turk, head of pro-Kurdish Democratic Society Party, at the parliament in Ankara, Turkey, Wednesday, Aug. 5, 2009. Erdogan's government expressed readiness to grant more rights to the nation's Kurds in an effort to end the 25-year insurgency by Kurdish rebels.

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