Posted on 05/26/2017 6:41:23 PM PDT by Texas Fossil
Amid the war against the Islamic State, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is bombing our villages and soldiers on an entirely false pretense.
Last month, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan bombed and shelled our villages in northern Syria. The strikes killed our soldiers and unnecessarily escalated the conflict between Turkey and us at a time when we are engaged in a historic battle alongside U.S.-led international coalition forces to retake Raqqa and end the Islamic State’s reign of terror.
I am a member of the Movement for a Democratic Society (TEV-DEM), an umbrella organization made up of six political parties and civil society institutions, including the Democratic Union Party (PYD), the leading Kurdish party in northern Syria. We are recognized by the PYD, as well as the People’s Protection Units (YPG) and Women’s Protection Units (YPJ) as their political leadership. We are devoted to building an egalitarian, democratic, and ethical society where Arabs, Kurds, and Syriacs — along with Muslims, Christians and Yazidis — all live peacefully side by side and where women are treated equal to men.
In justifying this egregious attack on northern Syria, Erdogan used a common refrain. The PYD and the Syrian Kurds, he said, are the same as the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), making them terrorists.
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Informative article, but I already knew that Erdogan is a monster.
Yes.
It is hard for some to believe that a NATO member country could be as deceptive as they really are. The more you read, the worse it becomes. So much reinforcement of facts.
It has been this way to some extent since WWI when “modern” Turkey began.
The PKK is communist. I have watched vids of them educating their new recruits on the doctrines of anti-capitalist society.
How old was the video?
I’m not defending them. But they did teach the Syrian Kurds to survive and to defeat ISIS.
YPG and PKK are not the same.
The Syrian Kurds are very different from those in Iraq.
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