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Turkey President furious at Kurdish referendum
President Erdogan accuses the Kurds of "treachery" after independence referendum.
President Erdogan accuses the Kurds of "treachery" a day after an independence referendum was held in the autonomous region of Kurdistan. He warned that the push for independence risked dragging the region into war.
Also in the programme: assessing risks of anti-epilepsy drugs to pregnant women and three Israelis killed in West Bank attack
(Picture: Soldiers hold a Turkish and Iraqi national flag while standing in the turret of a Turkish armoured vehicle participating in a military exercise near the Turkish-Iraqi border in the Silopi district, in Sirnak City, Turkey, 26 September 2017 Credit: EPA)
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