Thousands of Turks have been on the streets demanding vengeance for the rebel attacks
Posted on 10/23/2011 3:14:25 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
The Kurdish militants posed a "common problem" for Turkey and Iran, Iranian Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi said on an unscheduled trip to Ankara.
Turkey vowed jointly to "totally eliminate" the "terrorist threat"...
Turkish warplanes and helicopter gunships flew bombing sorties against the main base of Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) rebels in Iraq, the Qandil Mountain on the Iraq-Iran border...
"The air and ground offensives mostly concentrate within Turkey and in the Cukurca area, while air and ground operations are under way in a few areas across the border in northern Iraq," the military said in a statement Friday...
Tuesday's attacks, in Hakkari province, are thought to have inflicted the biggest loss on Turkish forces since 1993 and President Abdullah Gul has vowed to avenge them.
They were another ratcheting-up of a conflict in which tens of thousands of people [almost all of them, Kurds] have died since 1984...
In the past, Iran has shelled targets in the Qandil Mountain and reports suggest Tehran has been carrying out a major offensive against PJAK since July...
Analysts also point out that previous Turkish efforts to take on Kurdish rebels militarily have had short-lived results. Turkey launched a major ground offensive in northern Iraq in 2008, but PKK fighters were able to regroup and continue to stage attacks....
But Turkish leaders have been under pressure from many ordinary Turks to respond to Tuesday's attacks, with the normally measured President Ali Abdullah Gul vowing to exact "great revenge" for the bloodshed.
Tens of thousands of people, including school students, took to the streets in Turkey on Tuesday demanding action against the rebels.
Many have male relatives serving in Turkey's conscript army.
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Thousands of Turks have been on the streets demanding vengeance for the rebel attacks
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So which side does obama bomb?
And the sun is rising in the east as we read and post.
But the joke is that Turkey has truly been taken over by the Kurds.
Domesticly the secular Turks are everywhere on the run, defeated by the Kurdish dominated muslim liners.
Oh, he has bombed, period.
? There are Moslem-believing Turks too...
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Duh..
Turks are not of the semetic race, they only “use” islam.
In their history they made good use of islam for their national advancement.
Acting from a position of centuries of power in islam, as State policy they just as willingly adopted western Christian attitudes and systems to promote their national interest as political reality required , a very un-islamic attitude.
The Kurds likewise are not semetic people, and they likewise are using islam as a lever, club, axe against the Turk, and very sucessfully.
The Turk has I fear found that islam is, like the Mafia, a club which one can never leave alive.
well, for a race that has only “used” Islam, they’ve used it to conquer and destroy the Bulgarians, Greeks, Romanians, Hungarians, Armenians, Georgians, Assyrians etc. — and with Timur’s example to slaughter millions of Hindus...
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