FEATURE - Son of Batman seeks change in Turkey's darkest corner


BATMAN, Turkey (Reuters) - Unable to get a job in Istanbul, 26-year-old Kemal came home to Batman and now hopes another returning son can bring some of western Turkey's prosperity to the conflict-ridden Kurdish southeast.

Since Mehmet Simsek, Turkey's 44-year-old finance minister, left in the mid-1980s to go to Ankara University, his hometown has become known for incidents of Kurdish militancy and for a high number of unexplained suicides among women and girls.

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