Posted on 07/30/2015 7:24:51 PM PDT by markomalley
The Defense Department is defending Turkey’s decision to bomb Kurdish rebels in northern Syria amid concern that the NATO member is using its alliance with the U.S. against ISIS as a pretext to defeat an old enemy, the independence-minded Kurdish Workers Party, or PKK, which also is assisting the U.S. against the jihadist army that has taken over large portions of Iraq and Syria, according to a report from Joseph Farah’s G2 Bulletin.
After the PKK claimed responsibility for the execution-style murder of two Turkish police officers near the Syrian border, Turkey bombed PKK fighters in northern Syria and non-PKK Kurdish fighters who are assisting the United States against ISIS. Turkey opposes the PKK’s aim to create a greater Kurdistan with portions of southern Turkey, northern Syria and northern Iraq.
Responding to G2 Pentagon spokeswoman Laura Seal insisted, however, there is no connection between “deeper cooperation against ISIL (ISIS) and Turkey’s strikes against the PKK.”
“We support the government of Turkey’s efforts to combat terrorism, even as we are mindful of the need to avoid tensions between those who are committed to and engaged in the fight against ISIL (ISIS),” Seal said in an email.
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The world is upside down. We should bomb turkey for attacking the one group in the region who can stop ISIS
The PKK is a Communist organization. I don’t think they’re our allies.
Thank you.
Another friend thrown under the bus by the mad muslim.
I don’t think the Kurds have the size or resources to beat ISIS, and I don’t think Turkey is going to reach very far past their borders. I think we need them both, and I don’t think they are going to work together.
The Kurds have been on our side a couple times, at least since ‘91. Things never seem to work well for them.
BUMP
No, we never seem to work well for the Kurds.
The Kurds have been getting the short end of the stick since the Partition.
They’re doing what islamists do, and what the enemy islamist in the White House wants them to do.
And which the enemy islamists and their facilitators in Congress merely kowtow to.
You are right. PPK is an offshoot of the Kurds. It is a communist organization. They don’t represent the Kurdish people.
give the Kurds Stingers
The Kurds are an awesome honorable people. This makes me so sad.
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