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Apr 25, 1996 Syrian-sponsored PKK urges Turkish Kurds to rebel and secede. Thus does Assad, at no cost to himself — indeed, at a profit From Iranian cash and …
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9501EEDF1639F936A15757C0A960958260
October 27th, 2007 at 8:11 pmJune 23, 1997
Russian smuggling ring arms Kurd rebels in Turkey: Moscow-based gang has few problems crossing borders.
A group of up to 20 Russians based in Moscow have been smuggling arms to Kurdish terrorists using Poland, Bulgaria, Slovakia and the former Yugoslavia as transit points, according to a U.S. intelligence report.
The report, obtained by The Washington Times, says the smugglers, including former Red Army soldiers, work on behalf of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party, known as the PKK, to obtain the weapons as part of an organized-crime operation involving high-level Russian government officials.
“The smugglers have encountered no problems whatsoever at the border crossings,” …
October 27th, 2007 at 8:15 pmDRUG MONEY FUNDS KURDISH REBELS BOOMING HEROIN HABIT IN WESTERN EUROPE, U.S. MEANS BIG BUCKS FOR DEADLY TERRORISTS
Published on December 16, 1996.
Associated Press
The West’s growing heroin habit pours up to $500 million a year into the hands of some of the world’s deadliest terrorists, financing kidnappings and bombings that have killed thousands, U.S. drug agents say.
The Kurdistan Workers Party, known by the initials PKK, demands protection money from heroin labs in eastern Turkey, the crossroads and processing center for Afghan heroin on its way to Europe and North America.
October 27th, 2007 at 8:26 pmGreat, just what we need.
October 27th, 2007 at 8:28 pmCOMMUNIST Islamo-facists.
Why is it that every time I turn around more and more terrorist shit has a hint of the scent of Russians?
October 27th, 2007 at 10:12 pmYa know how liberals are always screaming how bad old America “drives people into the arms of the Communists”? Well, that old saw IS TRUE regarding the Turks and PKK.
Turkey commenced slaughtering the Kurds in the 1920’s, betraying the Kurdish support for the Turks vs the British. Massive, USSR-style village massacres (Ataturk was an ally of Lenin and Stalin, remember) totalling tens of thousands of deaths continued for decades. The Kurdish language was outlawed. Let me say that again: THE KURDISH LANGUAGE WAS OUTLAWED. FOR SEVENTY YEARS.
In the seventies some leftist Turks began to sympathize w/the Kurds, but in 1980 another coup gave the Turkish military power again. A very harsh (by TURKISH standards) purge began in the Kurdish region, with thousands of detainees tortured in Diyabakir prison. A lot of those released alive then took up arms w/the Soviet-supported PKK.
Turkey has been using us for a long time, and we need to re-evaluate our relationship w/that quasi-fascist regime. We know the PKK is bad, but why then do the Turks murder or imprison non-PKK Kurds who try to work peacefully within the system? BECAUSE THEY WANT TO PRESENT THE WORLD WITH AN EASY CHOICE: EITHER SUPPORT BAD KURDS, OR GOOD TURKS.
My fellow neo-cons need to open their eyes. Turkey is using them. My eyes were opened after our “NATO ally” stabbed us in the back in 2003 and forced us to Plan B in OIF. Why wd a real ally do that?
October 27th, 2007 at 10:36 pmFebruary 03, 1999 Chechen warlord field commander Salman Raduev denied that the PKK is a national liberation party and claimed that it is funded by Russian intelligence.
October 27th, 2007 at 11:25 pmjewish Odysseus,
can you provide me a link for your info ?
I got some friends who had like to know more about these evenments
thanks
October 28th, 2007 at 5:38 amHe is right. I have been traveled throughout Turkey and know people there. Leave it to Reuters to not tell the whole story.
Turkey models themselves after 1930’s-ish European Fascism. They completely oppress the Kurds. But here is the problem for them. How can they continue to oppress the Kurds and present an image that would be pleasing enough to the west to be allowed to join the EU? (they think they have a chance) Well, they start painting the Kurds as unreasonable terrorists. Then they can do what ever they want with them and in the process, possible get some support from us. This allows them to not do anything about a lot of their other problems because they can say that they are tied up fighting this “insurgency.”
The PKK are just as Commie as the Mujahadeen in Afghanistan, fighting the Soviets, were Capitalists. Also, the Kurdish resistance is not just the PKK. They are not that well organized and as well funded as you might think.
So, while it is true that the Kurds have resorted to acts of terror against Turkey they should not be judged so harshly and we should not be so quick to fall for what ever story that Turkey is trying to sell us.
October 28th, 2007 at 10:18 amhttp://www.bolshevik.org/Pamphlets/Kurds/kurd_1.html
Kurds history seen from an “international left” point of view
http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/Read.aspx?GUID={53F0CDC9-AC20-4BB7-89B6-8055FEA71044}
Kurds revendications seen from a nowadays US governemental point of view
I tend to agree with Grumpy’s conclusion
October 29th, 2007 at 4:48 am