Posted on 02/16/2017 1:46:58 PM PST by Texas Fossil
Turkish police have detained more than 800 people over alleged links to Kurdish fighters in nationwide operations, according to state media. Police conducted simultaneous raids in 37 provinces and taken 834 people into custody, state-run Anadolu Agency quoted police forces as saying on Tuesday, Aljazeera reported. Authorities received intelligence that the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) would escalate attacks after February 15, the day marking the 1999 capture of imprisoned PKK leader, Abdullah Ocalan. Along with the suspects, two Kalashnikovs, 11 guns, 15 rifles and ammunition were seized, police said. The operations come as Turks prepare to vote on April 16 on replacing the parliamentary structure with a system extending more powers to President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. The referendum will be held under a state of emergency imposed after an attempted coup last July. Tens of thousands of people have been arrested since the abortive coup over suspected ties to Fethullah Gulen, the US-based Muslim leader and businessman accused by Ankara of organizing the coup. The pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) said the raids are aimed at weakening it. “The basic goal of these operations ... is to hold the referendum without the HDP,” a statement from its executive committee said. Its statement, released before Tuesday’s arrests, said more than 300 of its members and executives had been detained on Monday, bringing those held this year to around 1,200. A dozen of its MPs and tens of Kurdish mayors from a sister party have been jailed pending trial. The government accuses HDP, parliament’s second biggest opposition party, of being a political extension of PKK. HDP denies direct links with the PKK and says it wants a peaceful settlement in Turkey’s largely Kurdish southeast.
AKP has NO INTENTION of allowing a fair election. NONE.
And if the referendum gives Erdogan his super powers, what will he do next? Genocide?
Certainly would not surprise me.
And he has no intentions of ever pulling out of his occupied territory in Syria and Iraq. NONE.
Very sorry for the bad formatting. Did not notice it when I Previewed the article.
Why should we care? Sure the kurds like us but they’re communist Muslim’s, two things I distaste more then anything else. Let em die.
You are actually incorrect on both observations.
Kurds are not all Muslim. They are communal in nature. But they are not Communist. There are Kurds who are Jewish, Christian, Assyrian, Zoroaster, Yzadi. Most of the Jewish Kurds have moved to Israel or Western Countries. With good reason. The percentage of these other religions among Kurds varies depending on which country they are in and the community in that country.
I have a number of them that I call friend.
They were the only people who sheltered Christians in Iraq after Saddam was overthrown. They have done the same thing in Syria.
There are sub groups of Kurds that exist in very remote mountain areas that are classified as terrorists in Turkey and the US. The US has in the past done that because Turkey is part of NATO. (for now)
Kurds are the largest ethnic (sort of) group in the world without their own country. Turkey would practice genocide again if they could. They would kill all the Kurds.
My point is, things are more complicate than what you stated.
Ok, ill correct to say that the vast majority are Muslim. But the PKK are communists, no doubt about it. They might have moved away from being soviet style but they still want collectivism and property seizure.
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