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Members of the minority group worry that messy politics and crushing poverty will only prolong their plight.
Kurdish militia fighters launched a major offensive to retake Sinjar from the Islamic State group.
Some 7,500 peshmerga fighters are closing in from three fronts in an effort to take control of the town and cut off a strategic supply line used by the Islamic State militants.
Forming a new government may be Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi's only chance of successful reform.
WHAT'S HAPPENING
President Erdogan, whose AK Party won back a parliamentary majority on Sunday, had pledged to continue operations against the Kurdistan Workers Party.
Nearly a dozen people were injured before police quelled the skirmish.
The Kurds have an enemy at their door, but they're preoccupied with internal power.
"A country at peace has suddenly found itself at war both against the Islamic State and the Kurds."