Posted on 07/26/2015 8:22:22 AM PDT by george76
Turkish government is using ISIS as a pretext to attack the PKK (Kurdistan Workers' Party).
Turkey just announced that its air base at Incirlik will soon be open to coalition forces, presumably to fight ISIS. But the moment Turkey started bombing, it targeted Kurdish positions in Iraq, in addition to targeting ISIS positions in Syria.
In Turkey, millions of indigenous Kurds are continually terrorized and murdered, but ISIS terrorists can freely travel and use official border crossings to go to Syria and return to Turkey; they are even treated at Turkish hospitals.
If this is how the states that rule over Kurds treat them, why is there even any question as to whether the Kurds should have their own self-government?
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On July 24, Turkish media sources reported that Turkish jet fighters bombed Kurdish PKK (Kurdistan Workers' Party) bases in Qandil, in Iraqi Kurdistan, as well as the Islamic State (ISIS) in Syria.
Turkey is evidently unsettled by the rapprochement the PKK seems to be establishing with the U.S. and Europe. Possibly alarmed by the PKK's victories against ISIS, as well as its strengthening international standing, Ankara, in addition to targeting ISIS positions in Syria, has been bombing the PKK positions in the Qandil mountains of Iraqi Kurdistan, where the PKK headquarters are located.
There is no ISIS in Qandil.
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The U.S. government cooperates with oppressive regimes -- including the terrorist regime of Iran, under which Kurds are forced to live -- to the detriment of the Kurds, to the detriment other persecuted peoples, and to the detriment of the future of the West.
Many Middle Eastern regimes are ruled by Islamist, often genocidal governments -- so there is not much to expect from them in terms of human rights and liberties.
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It seems the Kurds get screwed from all sides, including US.
Yes.
Like I keep saying (and will keep saying) all of this is factional warfare and settling of old scores. Turks and Kurds have been at it since WWI. Add in the mix of hundreds of other tribal groups in the region all taking sides and switching sides (as they have done for over a thousand years)
None of it is our fight.
I read, on some blogs, that the Turks are bombing the Kurds near Kobane, and thus supporting ISIS.
It is weird that Turkey is being reported to be against ISIS, when in fact it is getting stuck into the Kurds, who have actually managed a few wins against ISIS.
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