There are hundreds of inmates and their relatives, Leftists, Islamic, and Kurdish on Hunger Strike today. This has been going on for over nine months now. The death toll reached over twenty, without the government trying to even consider their demands. Drug trafficking is another serious problem that faces Turkey. The officials are closing their eyes at the Kurdish Lords who are smuggling the drugs and actually mercenaries of the State in fighting the Kurdish uprising.
Illegal immigration is another problem that faces Turkey every day.
There are hundred of thousands of people from Turkey and other Asians and Middle Eastern, especially Kurds from every part of Kurdistan who are running away from political persecution, seeking refuge in European countries. Turkey also is facing the new trend and tendency of the world to accept the Armenian claim of Genocide that was committed by the Ottomans on 24 April 1915. They claims that the Turks massacred over 1.5 million of Armenians. After the French Parliament passed the proposal recognizing for the first time that massacre as an act of Genocide by the Ottomans against Armenian people, Armenian lobby is pushing its case in every European country, especially after the proposal failed in the U.S. Congress with the last minute intervention of the former President Bill Clinton before leaving The White House. What frighten Turkey most is that other European countries will follow the lead of France in recognizing the Armenian Genocide.