Posted on 12/19/2015 9:08:00 AM PST by McGruff
Four days of clashes in southeast Turkey have reportedly killed at least 69 Kurdish militants and two members of the Turkish security forces. Turkish jets also reportedly bombed several Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) camps in northern Iraq on Friday, destroying shelters and fighting posts.
In July, a two-year ceasefire between Turkey and the militant PKK crumbled, triggering a relapse of violence in Kurdish territories in southeast Turkey and northern Iraq. More than 40,000 people have been killed since the Kurdish insurgency began in 1984, and the peace process recently fell apart after the PKK claimed responsibility for the fatal shootings of two Turkish police officers near the Syrian border city of Ceylanpinar.
Speaking in the southwestern city of Anatolia earlier this week, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan vowed to continue ramping up military efforts to subdue the PKK. "You will be destroyed in the houses, apartments and trenches that you have dug," Erdogan said, according to local news outlets. "All the Turkish security forces, soldiers, police officers and voluntary village guards will continue to fight until everywhere in [the southeast] is cleansed [of PKK militants] and until an atmosphere of peace is ensured there. We will not stop! We will fight with the same determination."
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If anyone knows how to ethnically cleanse, it is Turkey
Our ally
Of course the Kurds are also our “ allies”
But hey Erdogan is a man obama and his saudi masters can do business with
Our NATO ally.
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Yep, our ISLAMIST NATO ally.
“If anyone knows how to ethnically cleanse, it is Turkey”
They’ve done it before, and they can do it again.
Give the Kurds a boatload of Stingers. That should do it.
The US, actually try and stop ISIS? Please!! What is the Russian version of the Stinger? Putin needs to ship them those by the truck load.
Putin is happy to let the Kurds get killed by the Turks -- give the Turks a black eye, and undermines the Kurds' ability to hang on to the parts of Syria they control. Russian troops are in Syria to help the murderer Assad, after all.
Guess how they vote.
Well I`ll take the Russian ally, the ‘murderer Assad’, any day of the week over the US`s ally ISIS.
Well we know how these guys https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Standard#/media/File:Flag_of_Jihad.svg vote.
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