If the Turks ban the language of the Kurds, it is all right. But just because NATO failed the Kurds does not mean it should fail the Kosovar Albanians. What Milosevic's forces have done to the Kosovar Albanians is indeed terrible, but it is not quite genocide. And what the Turkish government has done to the Kurdish people is bad, but it is not quite as bad as what Milosevic has done in Kosovo. The U.S. feels no need for such verbal gymnastics.
Turkey is a democratic country, committed to seeking a peaceful solution to the Kurdish issue.
The comparison is grossly unfair. Rubin obviously has not visited the State Department's own web site recently. A 29-page document there dated February 26 details human rights abuses against Turkey's Kurdish population. Extrajudicial killings, including deaths in detention from the excessive use of force, 'mystery killings' and disappearances continue. Most estimates agree that 2600 to 3000 villages and hamlets have been depopulated.