You hope the Kurds armed and supplied? YOU DO NOT HAVE A CLUE WHO THESE PEOPLE (the Kurdish PPK) ARE DO YOU?
The PKK is listed as a terrorist organization internationally by a number of states and organizations, including the USA, NATO and the EU.[2]
Eric Rouleau in the November/December 2000 edition of ‘Foreign Affairs’ states:
According to the Turkish Ministry of Justice, in addition to the 35,000 people killed in military campaigns, 17,500 were assassinated between 1984, when the conflict began, and 1998. An additional 1,000 people were reportedly assassinated in the first nine months of 1999. According to the Turkish press, the authors of these crimes, none of whom have been arrested, belong to groups of mercenaries working either directly or indirectly for the security agencies.[3][4]
Human Rights Watch has stated that:
Consequently, all economic, political, military, social and cultural organizations, institutions, formations — and those who serve in them — have become targets. The entire country has become a battlefield.
The PKK also promised to “liquidate” or “eliminate” political parties, “imperialist” cultural and educational institutions, legislative and representative bodies, and “all local collaborators and agents working for the Republic of Turkey in Kurdistan.”[5]
It also notes that:
As Human Rights Watch has often reported and condemned, Turkish government forces have, in the course of the conflict with the PKK, also committed serious violations of international human rights and humanitarian law, including torture, extrajudicial killings, and indiscriminate fire. We continue to demand that the Turkish government investigate and hold accountable those members of its security forces responsible for these violations. Nonetheless, under international law, the government abuses cannot under any circumstances be seen to justify or excuse those committed by Ocalan’s PKK.[5]
Many who died were unarmed civilians, caught in the middle between the PKK and security forces, targeted for attacks by both sides.[6]
According to Amnesty International, the PKK killed and tortured Kurdish peasants and its own members in the 1980s. A number of Kurds have been abducted and killed because they were suspected of being “collaborators” or “informers” and it was a common practice for the PKK to kill their whole families.[7]
According to an article printed in the November 2002 issue of the International Socialist, monthly paper of the International Socialists, during the conflict (and still [as of 2002]), the Turkish army tortured, killed and “disappeared” civilians.[8] In 1997, Amnesty International (AI) reported that, “’Disappearances’ and extrajudicial executions have emerged as new and disturbing patterns of human rights violations ...” by the Turkish state.[9] According to an earlier (1996) report of AI, “in January 1996 the [Turkish] government announced that the PKK had massacred 11 men near the remote village of Güçlükonak. Seven of the victims were members of the local village guard force. Independent investigations suggested that the massacre was the work of the security forces”.[10]