Posted on 10/18/2014 3:23:02 AM PDT by GonzoII
The PKK (Kurdish Workers Party) which has been the primary Kurdish group fighting against Turkey since the 70s is a Marxist terrorist organization.
PKK, specifically, has been influenced by soviet ideology, that much is true. But that isn’t reason to designate them a terrorist grp. The U.S. tends to designate non-nation-states as terrorists when they take up arms against a recognized nation-state to defend themselves, and when those nation-states request such a label to be assigned. Otherwise, mullahs in iran & erdogan’s turkey and SA should all be designated terrorist states based on their actions & often via terrorist proxies.
PKK is definitely a terrorist org. They have bombed civilian targets repeatedly.
I can sympathize with their goals while disagreeing strongly with their methods.
Agreed. Am also strongly against any grp or regime that is violent. I guess Turkish govt should’ve stopped killing Kurds too, before they became PKK. Not defending PKK methods, but they became an organized grp a reason. They started a peace process in 2012. Then ISIS came along and Erdogan has refused & still refuses to help the Kurds.
Equally PKK & YPG (their affiliate in Syria) were also the ones who significantly hepled Peshmerga & the Yezidis when the genocide of Yezidis in Iraq started by ISIS. A fact that was hardly publicized.
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