Turkey slave pen: Sisters against brothers in a country torn by war

Portraits of Mevlude Gungen's two eldest children hang just above the television, the only piece of furniture in her living room. On a recent day, the set was tuned to the station run by a Kurdish militant group, bringing her news of the conflict that has haunted her country, and her family, for years.

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Her daughter Emine ran away to join the militants two years ago, at the age of 14. Her son Ramazan, now 20, was drafted into the Turkish Army last year.

That has left the family, like so many others in this Kurdish corner of the country, stuck in the middle, caught between a guerilla movement fighting for minority rights and local autonomy and a central government that says it wants to make peace, but fears carving up the country.

"My other children do not understand where either of them are," said Gungen, 35, who has six younger children. "Sometimes I hear them saying, 'What happens if they face each other? Do you think Emine will kill Ramazan, or that Ramazan will kill Emine?' ''

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Turkey slave pen: Sisters against brothers in a country torn by war

Turkey slave pen: Sisters against brothers in a country torn by war

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