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Biden says PKK, ISIS are both terrorist groups
 Joe Foreign Policy Whiz KidBiden The former Senator-for-Life from Delaware, an example of the kind of top-notch Washington intellect to be found in the World's Greatest Deliberative Body... said Saturday that the Kurdistan Workers´ Party or PKK is a "terrorist group" and there is "no difference" between them and the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not reallyMoslems.... and al-Nusra ...formally Jabhat an-Nusrah li-Ahli sh-Sham (Support Front for the People of the Levant), also known as al-Qaeda in the Levant. They aim to establish a pan-Arab caliphate. Not the same one as the Islamic State, though .. ... Biden's remarks came during a joint news conference with Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu in Istanbul. "They are simply terrorist groups and here in Turkey, they threaten and do harm and are of severe consequence to the interest of the people of Turkey and we do recognize that," he said, quoted by the local news agency Anadolu. The PKK has been fighting in Turkey during three decades for more rights for the Kurdish community, while the Islamic State and al-Nusra are fighting in Syria and Iraq and are affiliated to bad boy Islamic views. Biden was quoted by the agency saying that he believed that the vast majority of Kurds wanted to live in peace but that the PKK had shown no desire or inclination to do so. Reiterating that Ankara was a "strategic partner" of the US, Biden said Turkey has been taking "very important" steps to improve security in its border where ISIS is reigning terror. Biden said Turkey and the United States were coordinating ever more precisely on what is a "shared mission on the extermination of ISIL"(or ISIS). Biden also was quoted by the newspaper Hurriyet Daily News as saying that the United States and Turkey were prepared for a military solution in Syria against ISIS if a political settlement was not possible. "We do know it would better if we can reach a political solution but we are prepared..., if that's not possible, to have a military solution to this operation and taking out Daesh [Islamic State]," Biden said, using the Arabic term for ISIS. Davutoglu also said terrorism did not threaten only one country, rather it threatened all neighbouring countries. "Whichever ethnicity terrorism is coming from, it is a humanitarian crime. We do not see any difference between PKK, al-Nusra, DHKP-C (the Revolutionary People´s Liberation Party-Front), Daesh [Islamic State]," said Davutoglu. Davutoglu added both the US and Turkey were sensitive to the fight against all terror organizations. "Turkey sees three threats in Syria: One is the regime, another is Daesh [Islamic State], and third is the YPG (the armed Kurdish forces of the Democratic Union Party or PYD in northern Syria)," said Davutoglu, adding that the YPG (Kurdish People's Protection Units) was part of the terrorist organization PKK. The PYD is the Syrian affiliate of the PKK, which is listed as a terrorist organization by Turkey, the EU and the US. Davutoglu also said the PKK presence in Iraq required that Turkey bring the fight to the PKK and Daesh [Islamic State] in the region. Biden also talked with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan ... Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him... , in a meeting was closed to press. Posted by: trailing wife 2016-01-24 |
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