Someone tell the Turks that the Persians are the next country over.
Posted on 12/17/2007 11:46:27 PM PST by HAL9000
300 TURKISH TROOPS ENTER NORTHERN IRAQ OVERNIGHT -SENIOR IRAQI MILITARY SOURCE
Someone tell the Turks that the Persians are the next country over.
Yes. They're targeting the PKK, a group considered a Kurdish terrorist organization by the United States, Britain, and even the EU. Clashes with the PKK have killed tens of thousands of people in Turkey since the 1980s.
PKK has stepped up its terrorist activities after the Iraqi war, with hopes of taking over southeastern Turkey to create a Kurdish nation.
Many PKK members are based in Iraq, and have been illegaly crossing over the border into Turkey to committ terrorist acts against Turkish civilians and soldiers.
Liberty, I am totally lost on this issue so I understand what you mean.
JMO, but I bet these “terrorist” PPK members are also the ones that helped the US carry out operations in the north during the Invasion of Iraq. Bet they were instrumental in eliminating Iraqi troops along side the US forces.
Again, JMO, I bet it was the Kurdish who P.O.’d a few state department folks and GW when they decided they wanted to form their own government and claim the oil in the north as their own.
So our intelligence and that of the Turks is so great that they are only bombing the PKK bad Kurds while not affecting the good Kurds in the process.
Wasn’t it part of our reasons for sanctions against Saddam because he was killing the Kurds? Must have been the good ones because we are allowing the Turks to invade Iraq and eliminate the bad Kurds. Why did we not do it? Seems crazy to allow another country in.
Something just does not seem right. Once I read the articles UKTory you provided links to, I may have a better understanding of the matter at hand.
Done without any international process... from the same guys who tried to stop us and said us going there was not legal
how many times was this done before AP decided it was news worthy
Before 2003, Saddam used the Ansar al-Islam jihadists and al Qaeda encamped in northern Iraq to keep the PKK in line. Now they’re all dead and the PKK has had a free reign to kill Turks. This was a well-known risk during the run-up to the invasion.
Our little “friends” the Turks are trying to stop any stabilization in Iraq because they want to continue to surpress their own Kurdish minority and take over Kurdistan - or at least part of it.
Let’s see if the Kurdish civilians will resist the Islamofascist Turks invading Iraq.
The PKK are not our allies.
All Kurds are not the same.
Correct, but Turkey’s legitimate fight against PKK is only a pretext of destabilizing and ultimately subdueing ANY Kurdish self-ruling entity next door.
Turkey, Iraq and Iran all have a problem with a self ruling Kurdish entity.
So why can't we strike into Pakistan to get Al Qaeda members?
No, you would be wrong.
Think of the drug smugglers as the Marxist PKK terrorists -- including a time in the future when 20,000 or so Americans have been killed by the drug smugglers trying to establish control over portions of the U.S. The 20,000 is the approximate number of Turkish civilian casualties caused by the PKK since the 1980s. The total number of deaths is greater owing to Turkish counterattacks.
What would we do? If you think what Turkey did is wrong then surely you'll argue that we should do nothing except let more Americans be murdered by the drug smugglers.
I advise everyone here to read the links posted. They really help illuminate the situation.
As has been posted before, the PKK is a brutal, terrorist, Marxist group of thugs, is not affiliated with the Kurdish government, is not a true defender of the Kurdish people, have actively killed tens of thousands of Turks, and are not to be called our allies. I have no qualms about an actual ally (however strained relations are now) killing few terrorists.
Appreciate your vast knowledge on the subject.
Thanks, will do so. Hopefully the article(s) will answer some of the lingering questions I and others may have.
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