Posted on 08/12/2010 6:41:07 PM PDT by edpc
Report: German newspaper says photos of dead Kurds confirm use.
BERLIN – German politicians called on Thursday for an international investigation into the reported use of chemical weapons by the Turkish military. The weapons were used against members of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), according to the online edition of the German weekly magazine Der Spiegel.
“Turkey needs to urgently look into these accusations,” said Ruprecht Polenz, chairman of the Foreign Affairs committee in the Bundestag and a member of Chancellor Angela Merkel’s Christian Democratic Union party.
Polenz recommended an international investigation to examine the deaths of eight Kurdish activists from the PKK. Claudia Roth, co-chair of the German Green party, echoed Polenz’s criticisms, seconding his call for an investigation.
MP Andrej Hunko urged the German Foreign Ministry to file a complaint against Turkey with the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons in The Hague.
A forensic report from Hamburg University Hospital confirmed that the eight Kurds had been murdered by “the use of chemical substances.”
(Excerpt) Read more at jpost.com ...
The last country that used WMD’s against Kurds was Iraq. May Turkey suffer the same fate.
This story just don't smell rite,,,
From what I could find the Turks could overrun the Kurds
in a few days,,,MAX,,,
“Army
Main article: Turkish Army
Turkey signed a memorandum of understanding to order an initial batch of 116+8 F-35 Lightning IIThe Turkish Army is one of the largest standing armies in the world and the second largest army of NATO.[6][7] The Turkish Army can deploy a sizable Army Corps to conduct joint operations at short notice.[33] The Army can conduct air assault operations with a lift capability of up to six battalions at a time, day and night.[33]
The modern Turkish Army has its foundations in remnants of the Ottoman forces inherited after the fall of the Ottoman Empire at the end of World War I, though official sources - the Commandership of Land Forces and others - date its founding to Mete Khan in 209 BC.[34] The rise of Turkish nationalism in Anatolia, under the leadership of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, led eventually to victory in the Turkish War of Independence, and subsequently to the founding of the Republic of Turkey, when these remnant forces were reorganized into the modern Turkish Army.[35]
The Turkish Army has around 402,000 active personnel.”
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Why would the Turks bother with gas when they could just
take out the Kurds in one sweep,,,?...
A bombardment containing both chem and explosives would. Chem weapons to make defenders try to leave their positions to get away, then hit with explosives when they're out in the open running from the chem attack.
(If that makes a difference)
More info here - http://www.fas.org/irp/world/para/pkk.htm
I’ve read the background on the PPK. Not defending them, at all. Mainly, I am more concerned with the potential use of chemical weapons by the Turks, who have become more bellicose and unpredictable recently under the current leadership.
Chemical weapons are very dangerous. Agree on concerns over their use. Just clarifying that the target is a dangerous group, not Sunday school teachers :-)
Yeah, and 99.9% of those "Europeans" are...surprise!...Turks!
Not really, most of them are native Europeans, seriously. I first came across the pheomenon in Glasgow, Scotland.Its the allure of cheap real estate, beaches, and low cost living.
Hmmm...now I’m surprised. I know a lot of Turks move back to Turkey for retirement or when they’ve looted enough in Europe.
Tried to find some hard numbers for Europeans moving to Turkey, but no luck. Got a link? 2 million seems a lot.
This is BS.
I remain skeptical.
Asiatic Muslim Turks are experts at murder and mayhem through...GENOCIDE!
They are at it again...never really stopped.
The sooner the Kurds kick out the Turks the better for the whole region. Turks need to migrate to the turkestan or even Azerbaijan hellholes.
The land they call “turkey” and occupy through genocide is not theirs by any stretch of the imagination. It rigthfully belongs to the Armenians, The Assyrians and the Greeks and Kurds from which they stole it through blood and horror.
And NATO needs expel them too.
Turkey is going all Muslim.
Turkey is going all Muslim.
not going...has been!
The parastate of Turkey has been “All Muslim” (99.9%) since the Christian Genocide (the first Holocaust) of the early 20th century. 4 million Christians destroyed and a culture of thousands of years before the Turk tribes ever showed up: Assyrians, Armenians and Greeks and other assorted non Muslims.
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