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The West is betraying the Kurds and allowing them to be massacred
[TELEGRAPH.CO.UK] Stabs in the back don’t get much nastier than this.For the past year, Western leaders have feted the Kurds of Northern Iraq, praising them as one of the few forces gutsy enough to face down the death cult of Isil. Now, those leaders turn a blind eye, or even worse give an active nod, to attacks on Northern Iraqi Kurds by the Turkish air force. Heroes one minute; fair game for massacre the next. In the long list of Western betrayals of former allies overseas, this one feels especially grotesque. Last Friday, following months of negotiation with Washington, ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... launched its first-ever air strikes against Isil in Syria. A few hours later it started dropping bombs in Northern Iraq -- not on Isil, but on the PKK, the Kurdistan Workers’ Party, with which Turkey has been locked in bitter conflict since 1984. Posted by: Fred 2016-08-28 |
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