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Hezbollah lashes out against Turkish PKK airstrikes
2015-07-28
[RUDAW.NET] Turkish attacks on both the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) and the Revolutionary People's Liberation Party-Front (DHKP-C) are The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire....
's attempt to weaken those forces battling 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 Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems....
, Hassan Nasrallah, the Secretary General of Hezbollah, said Monday.

"In a bid to protect ISIS from any harm, Turkey has targeted the freedom fighters of both the PKK and DHKP-C," Nasrallah said in a statement released by Hezbollah media.

Nasrallah lambasted the Turkish government and refuted Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan
... Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him...
's claim that ISIS was a threat to Turkish national security.

"I have no doubt that Turkey helped ISIS, and sheltered it. Turkey opened its borders for ISIS gunnies and facilitated the group economically," said the Hezbollah leader.

"It's an illusion if the governments of Soddy Arabia
...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face...
, the US and Turkey think that they can maintain control over such a group," he said.

Following the ISIS attack on a Turkish army base near the Syrian border, the Turkish government--which was long reluctant to join the fight against ISIS--launched several aerial attacks against the group in Syria.

However,
Switzerland makes more than cheese...
near simultaneously, on Friday Turkish F-16 jets also targeted the PKK stronghold of Mount Qandil in northern Iraq, reportedly killing four guerrillas and injuring more than 10 others.
Posted by:Fred

#1  nothing on this at al-manar so it may be that rudaw made some of it up
Posted by: lord garth   2015-07-28 22:14