Posted on 10/14/2014 9:31:41 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
War against Islamic State militants in Syria and Iraq threatened on Tuesday to unravel the delicate peace in neighbouring Turkey after the Turkish air force bombed Kurdish fighters furious over Ankara's refusal to help protect their kin in Syria.
Turkey's banned PKK Kurdish militant group accused Ankara of violating a two-year-old cease-fire with the air strikes, on the eve of a deadline set by the group's jailed leader to salvage a peace process aimed at halting a three-decades-long insurgency.
At least 35 people were killed in riots last week when members of Turkey's 15-million-strong Kurdish minority rose up in anger at the government for refusing to help defend the Syrian border town of Kobani from an Islamic State assault.
"For the first time in nearly two years, an air operation was carried out against our forces by the occupying Turkish Republic army," the PKK said. "These attacks against two guerrilla bases at Daglica violated the ceasefire," the PKK said, referring to an area near the border with Iraq.
The unrest in Turkey raised serious concerns that a peace process between Turkey and its Kurds could be in danger of collapse, a new source of turmoil in a region consumed by Iraqi and Syrian civil wars and an international campaign against Islamic State fighters.
U.S. President Barack Obama, who ordered a bombing campaign against Islamic State fighters that started in August, was to discuss the strategy on Tuesday with military leaders from 20 countries, including Turkey, Arab states and Western allies.
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No. Who’s Adnan?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adnan_Oktar
He hates the Kurds too and calls them Stalinist. Are you enjoying their slaughter as the Turks look on?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PKK_(Kurdistan_Workers'_party)
Are you a fan?
And while I don't celebrate the ISIS slaughter that's going on in that region (you are obviously trying to put words in my mouth there - nice try, no cigar) that won't make me like *any* of that bunch down there any more. Sorry.
Given the choices, I like a secular Turkey and the Kurds. Given what we’ve got, yes I like the Kurds.
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