Europe's Kurdish problem
In 1848, Karl Marx called Communism "the spectre haunting Europe." In 1998, European governments seem more terrified by an army of scarecrows: Kurdish refugees from Turkey and Iraq Albert Rochal
The arrival of several hundred Kurdish asylum-seekers on the southern coast of Italy in February sparked off a vast anti-refugee campaign across the European Union.
Governmental discourse revolves around the age-old clichés: Iraqi and Turkish Kurds seeking asylum are linked