peaceful community living there?

The answer lies in the impunity Turkey has enjoyed for its past and current crimes. Throughout its history, Turkey has never been held accountable for the many actions that have gravely violated human rights and international law. Hence, the question is: Will Turkish impunity continue? Will the Trump administration, and the West in general, let the Turkish military kill and abuse Kurds, Christians, and Yazidis in Afrin, and thereby encourage Erdoğan to wage full-blown war in the region?

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Uzay Bulut, a journalist and political analyst born in Turkey, is currently based in Washington D.C. She is an associate fellow of the Philos Project. Her journalistic work focuses mainly on Turkey’s ethnic and religious minorities, political Islam, and the history of Turkey. Follow her on Twitter: https://twitter.com/uzayb.

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The town's earliest settlers chiefly comprised English Quakers from Dutchess County, New York, as well as a group of settlers who were originally from the town of Kent, Connecticut.

The village of Delanson within in the town of Duanesburg was an important stop for the Delaware and Hudson Railroad. Major freight traffic carried Pennsylvania coal northeast through Duanesburg and on to Albany, Boston, and other major eastern cities. In the flat-bottomed valley east of the village of Delanson were huge coal storage piles over  high. The village of Delanson had a rough reputation at the time, catering to "rowdy" railroad men. Many densely packed wooden shops lined the village