Barrack Hussein Obama and Tayyip Erdogan
Posted on 11/06/2011 3:41:27 PM PST by markomalley
A Turkish human rights group is investigating claims by Kurdish activists that Ankara used chemical weapons in an attack on militants in the east of the country last month.
The activists are circulating gruesome pictures of some of the 24 rebels, from the PKK guerrilla group, killed in the Kazan Valley in air raids that began on October 19. Blackened and dismembered, the corpses lie in a morgue in a nearby town with weeping relatives nearby.
Their allegations have forced their way into the open in Turkey, which is usually fiercely nationalist when it comes to accusations of abuse by the Kurds, whose campaign for autonomy is a long-running sore. The prime minister, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, made a public denial of them as a "slander" while on his recent trip to the G20 summit in Cannes.
The activists say the only explanation for the type of burns exhibited is that some chemical agent was used. Their claims has now been raised by MPs from the legal pro-Kurdish party, the BDP, and taken up by the Turkish Human Rights Association (IHD).
"One of our branches in the area has acted to investigate whether chemical weapons were used or not," a spokesman said from IHD headquarters in Ankara. He said chemical samples had been taken from plants in the area, as well as from clothes from the bodies of 13 of those killed.
The PKK has led a long struggle for recognition for the Kurdish people, who have no state of their own but also inhabit large areas of Syria, Iran and Iraq. In Turkey alone more than 40,000 people have died.
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Barrack Hussein Obama and Tayyip Erdogan
Obama just HUGGED they this week...the photos are somewheres..
No bow?
The Kurds used to be known as the Medes. They were without a homeland even back then.
Pentagon wants to sell them 3 helicopters and some other weapons.
Turks gas the Kurds after repeatedly violating Iraqi territory, and simultaneously helping the opposition within disintegrating Syria, which is an ally of Iran...
Thanks markomalley.
If true Obama might sell them 6 Apache’s instead of 3.
That Tryptophan is definitely a problem.
Didn’t they refuse us air space during Iraq war??
Turkeys.
IIRC, they refused us ground transit for an armored division at the last minute, after initially approving it. It really changed the war planning and delayed the start.
I thought the Kurds were our allies in GW II. Sorry Kurds, no Arab Spring for you ...
My impression is the only 'chemicals' involved her are the ones in high explosives.
The Kurds and the Medes were not the same people, though they both share some linguistic elements of Parthian languages familiar to the area of Iran prior to the empire of the Medes. But the Medes spoke a Norheast variant and the Kurdish dialects all have more in common with each other than with the Parthian dialect of the Medes, and the Kurdish dialects are mostly from southwestern Iran and west of Iran.
The one consistency of the Kurds has been (even in ancient times) that no matter who has conquered the land and claimed sovereign rule over it, the Kurds remained, and remain, Kurds. At the time of the Median empire, and the later Persian Empire, a traveler could report back to their king that they had traveled in the land of the Medes, or the land of the Persians, but to a Kurd it made no difference; it was their land no matter what king they had to bow to. They kept their language and culture and remained the local majority in many areas they may have occupied for a few thousand years now. In any case, they were not the Medes.
I hope they complete the investigation before Thanksgiving.
The deadly Muzzie Hug dance and the kiss of death.
Oh...snap
Why would they resort to using that for only 24 rebels?
It seems like overkill.
If true...I’m with you.
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