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Three years ago Mr Erdogan promised to address Kurdish demands but has done little other than lift some restrictions on the use of the Kurdish language. These gestures have been outweighed by the arrest of several thousand Kurdish activists, politicians and academics, often for the flimsiest of links to the PKK. The arrests mean that the rebels retain strong support and a steady flow of recruits from the country’s 15 million Kurds. Many observers fear hopes for a political settlement are fading. The younger generation of Kurds, embittered by growing up in the midst of a 28-year-old conflict, are more radical than their elders.