Posted on 10/14/2014 8:18:40 AM PDT by yldstrk
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Tuesday,October 14 2014, Your time is 10:15:56 AM Turkish fighter jets bomb PKK positions for first time since start of peace bid
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The targeting of PKK positions is the first such bombardment since the start of the Kurdish peace process at the beginning of 2013.
The targeting of PKK positions is the first such bombardment since the start of the Kurdish peace process at the beginning of 2013. Turkish fighter jets have bombarded positions of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) following militant attacks on military outposts in southeastern Turkey, in a first since the start of the peace process.
The Turkish General Staff ordered the bombing of the PKK’s positions in the Dağlıca district the southeastern Hakkari province late Oct. 13, Hürriyet has learned. The bombarded targets had reportedly been involved in “assassination, armed incidents and attacks on security bases” after last week’s nationwide protests.
Many provinces in Turkey’s east, as well as the largest cities of the country, saw violent protests against the government’s policies over the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant’s (ISIL) advance on the Syrian border town of Kobane. Some 37 people were killed and hundreds were injured in the demonstrations.
The Dağlıca military guard post had been attacked with rocket-propelled grenades by the PKK for three days, and the Turkish military airstrikes came after the last attack that took place on Oct. 13. F-16 and F-4 jets flying from Malatya and Diyarbakır bombarded PKK positions in the Dağlıca district.
The airstrike is the first broad operation against the PKK since the government initiated the peace process with Turkey’s Kurds in 2013.
Please remind me, who are the good guys and who are the bad guys?
The PKK are not the same Kurds that are fighting against ISIS. The PKK has a long history of terrorism.
I have mixed feelings about the Turks bombing communist Kurds.
Correct. The PKK represents only the far left Kurds. But they are still nowhere near as bad as ISIS. This is like FDR ordering bombings of Stalin’s positions when the Nazis were at the gates of Moscow.
“Please remind me, who are the good guys and who are the bad guys?”
In the Middle East there are no good guys. There are only various shades of bad guys. I’d say we need to steer clear until we have a president who will look after America’s interests first and foremost. Instead we have President Urkel who learned everything he knows from faculty lounge discussions.
I thought the Kurds in Syria had ties to the PKK, unlike the Kurds in Iraq.
And those Kurds in Syria are indeed fighting ISIS.
None of them are the good guys.
Please remind me, who are the good guys and who are the bad guys?
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You beat me to it. Hopefully some knowledgable Freeper will set us straight.
Bad guys battling worse guys.
Kurds have long been sort of driven to socialistic schemes, as they have little or no representation within Turkey, Syria, Iran or Iraq. The socialist promise held out to the Kurds, much like the socialist promises made to underdog ethnic minorities everywhere in the world, is supposed to give them a “level” playing field with the superior numbers and wealth of the majority within the country they find themselves. Never mind that socialistic schemes have NEVER delivered even one whit of the “prosperity for all” they promise, for the underdog, it looks like a straw to be grasped while drowning.
The Kurds have known nothing except persecution and oppression for centuries, and they have a huge and powerful sense of resentment, expressed in their fierce determination to resist when the opportunity for retribution comes along.
The nation once known as “the United States of America” probably gave the Kurds at least a brief sense of the possibility they may finally unite and rise against their oppressors, but alas, that land is no more, the territory now occupied with a foreign ideology, which has continued to neuter its potential and capabilities. The Kurds may expect little aid from that quarter.
Turkey’s reluctance to cross the Syrian border and defend Kobani is tied up very intimately with their hatred of the Kurds, not particularly their politics. The Kurds are the n****rs of the Middle East, and are more widely despised by the Muslims than even the Jews of Israel.
That's not quite true.
Assyrian Genocide
500,000 Armenians Said To Have Perished... Slaughter of Christians by Turks and Kurds.
Damn Turks are going to pull NATO into a war.
No Muzzie nation should be part of NATO— period. Can’t trust those backstabber tasbards.
Muslims bombing muslims. What’s the problem?..................
I didn’t say the Kurds were always on the same end of persecution and oppression. It is sort of like how the English managed the problem of both the Scots and the Irish - by setting the Scots as guards over the Irish (Ulster-Scots). The Scots, themselves hounded and harried by the English, were removed from the Highlands and transplanted to Northern Ireland, where they passed on the lessons they learned so well under the English, in controlling the Irish.
The Kurds were sort of in the position of the Scots, and the Armenians were in the position of the Irish.
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