[SunkenCiv]

Trench Warfare in Turkey -- This isn't the formerly besieged Syrian hamlet of Kobani or another Middle Eastern war zone -- it's Cizre, an overwhelmingly Kurdish town situated on Turkey's southeastern border with Syria and Iraq. These battles between the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) and Turkish security forces now threaten to undermine peace talks between Ankara and the PKK's jailed spiritual leader, Abdullah Ocalan, aimed at ending Turkey's 30-year Kurdish insurgency. The bloodshed in Cizre is a testament to the difficulties both sides have faced in burying the conflict after decades of violence. The crisis began in October, when massive protests erupted in the southeast over Ankara's refusal to aid Kurdish defenders in Kobani, which recently withstood a four-month siege by Islamic State jihadists.

[House Atreides]

TURKEY IS THE ENEMY OF AMERICA AND OF AMERICANS, HAVE NO DOUBT OF THAT FACT.

[Steely Tom]

Kurd Kobane?

[lump in the melting pot]

We should have given the Kurds their own state in 2003, in return for Turkey denying us overflight privileges during the Iraq invasion.