Turkey and Kurds in Iraq
Filed under: George W. Bush, Iraq, Kurds, NATO, PKK — Michael van der Galien, Editor-in-Chief on March 30, 2007 @ 7:24 pm CEST
A good article at the Washington Times about the PKK, the Iraqi government, Turkey, the war in Iraq and America. In short: it’s a complicated situation - the Kurds have already killed approximately 30,000 Turkish soldiers, diplomats and, yes, civilians.
More and more Turks are demanding action. How would Americans react if a Mexican terrorist organization crossed the border regularly and killed 30,000 Americans since 1990?
Exactly.
Obviously, a Turkish invasion of northern Iraq would create tremendous problems: it might cause a war between Turkey and Iraq, it will, most definitely, destabalize Iraq’s most stable (and peaceful) region, it will create an immense difficult situation for America, that’s forced to support both Turkey (NATO) and Iraq, in short: potential chaos.
Doing something against the PKK is of the utmost importance, especially considering the fact that the Turkish elections are approaching.
1 Vladimir
March 30, 2007 @ 10:23 pm CESTMaybe you should read some human right reports about this issue instead of writing about something you don’t know anything about, like a lot of bloggers do!
It were mostly Kurds that died in the conflict, not Turks. Both the Turkish army and the PKK killed civilians. It was Turkey that has denied the Kurdish identity for years and called them mountain Turks. PKK also committed a lot of violence, but it comes from both sides.