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| Barzani urges Turkey's Kurds to choose peaceful path to rights |
| 2015-07-27 |
| [RUDAW.NET] On the second day of Turkish ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... "What you can achieve through peace won't be achieved through fighting," Barzani said in a personal message, explaining he wanted to clarify his and Kurdistan's role in helping the PKK negotiate peace with Ankara. His message came as Turkey carried out a number of "I found it necessary to express my own attitude regarding the PKK-Turkey tensions, because there were wrong interpretations and information being given in my name," Barzani said in his late night message. "I am not interested in conflict, and I have never supported it even for a second," he said. Barzani noted that the Kurds had made headway in their pursuit of greater political and cultural rights in Turkey with the creation of the Peoples Democratic Party (HDP), which brought the Kurdish cause to the center stage. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #4 See THE HINDU > TURKEY PROBING CLAIMS THAT IT HIT [third-party = non-IS] FORCES OTHER THAN ISLAMIC STATE IN SYRIA. E.g. the Kurdish YPG. * GROONG > [Panorama] KURDIS PRESIDENT BARZANI CALLS ON TURKEY [Erdogan] TO STOP ATTACKS ON PKK. |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2015-07-27 21:54 |
| #3 I'm not sure the Kurds should be taking advice from Don Barzini. |
| Posted by: SteveS 2015-07-27 19:41 |
| #2 Seems that the US use of the Turkish airbase at Incirlik was a quid pro quo. We let you use the base, you shut up while we bomb the Kurds. |
| Posted by: Clyde Borgia7976 2015-07-27 09:28 |
| #1 YPG Command released an official statement that their Euphrates Volcano positions were shelled for two days by Turkey resulting in 4 injured personnel. The official statement warned Turkey that the YPG will retaliate if this happens again. Edrogen has called for a NATO conference for Tuesday regarding the Kurdish situation. |
| Posted by: Ebbomosh Hupemp2664 2015-07-27 02:01 |