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On the recordMay 25, 1994
I would like to highlight some elements of this change in priorities. One important provision in this bill that addresses post-cold-war realities, conditions 25 percent of Turkey's military assistance on the Departments of State and Defense reporting on Turkey's treatment of its Kurdish citizens, which account for 20 percent of its population. Turkey has repressed the Kurds for decades, but in the last 18 months the government instigated violence has reached unprecedented levels.
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John Winston Porter
Illinois
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Discussing foreign assistance and human rights in relation to Turkey during a House floor debate.

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