Village guard system
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village-guard-system-186-6604020
title:
Village guard system
text:
Village guards, officially known as Türkiye Güvenlik Köy Korucuları, are Gendarmerie General Command-aligned border guards involved in the Kurdish-Turkish conflict. They are mostly Kurds but also Circassians, Turks, Uzbeks and Kyrgyz people. Originally they were set up and funded by the Turkish state in the mid-1980s under the direction of Turgut Özal. Their stated purpose was to act as a local militia in towns and villages, protecting against attacks and reprisals from the insurgents of the Kur
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wiki
category slug:
encyclopedia
description:
Paramilitary security guards in Turkey
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Village_guard_system
date created:
2005-05-03T21:43:08Z
date modified:
2024-09-08T06:34:21Z
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