The incorporation into Turkey of the Kurdish-inhabited regions of eastern Anatolia was opposed by many Kurds, and has resulted in a long-running separatist conflict in which thousands of lives have been lost.
東アナトリアのクルド人居住区のトルコへの編入は多数のクルド人により反対され、長期にわたる分離独立紛争が生じ、何千人もの命が失われた。