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What do the Kurds mean by "self-determination"?

Since mid-December 2015, the Turkish military has intensified its campaign against PKK separatist militants, focusing on those towns and cities in predominantly Kurdish south-eastern Turkey that declared "self-determination". But what do the Kurds mean by self-determination and do all Kurdish people want the same thing?

The World Tonight's Andrew Hosken has been to Turkey to report on the fighting.

(Picture: Kurdish woman at a rally. Copyright: AFP/Getty Images)

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