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| PKK planning to resist US-Turkish attack |
| 2005-08-29 |
| Amid reports that the United States and Turkey are preparing an attack against the Kurdish Workers' Party (PKK)'s headquarters in Qindil hills of northern Iraq - an area which borders Iran and Turkey - a Kurdish leader has warned that the separatist group will put up a fight. Muhammad Fa'iq Kawalbi, president of Iraqi Kurdish party, Democratic Solution, told a Sulaymaniyya-based Kurdish newspapaer, Aso, that "if American troops attack PKK headquarters on Qindil hills, Kurdish fighters will descend from the mountains into Iraqi and Turkish cities and lead similar operations to those conducted by terrorist groups such as [the al-Qaeda linked Kurdish group] Ansar al-Sunna." Washington considers the PKK a terrorist organisation, but according to Kawalbi, while the PKK has wrongly killed innocent people, the US are behaving far worse in Iraq and the PKK "has not even committed half the number of terrorist attacks that Turkey has," Kawalbi said. Turkey, in exchange for its supports to Washington's Middle East policy, has asked the United States to back its fight against the PKK by labelling it a terrorist group, he said. Reports of a possible US-Turkey strike against PKK positions in Iraq come in the wake of a recently announced truce by the PKK and an apparent softening by Ankara of its position towards the Turkey's Kurdish minority's demands for greater autonomy. Turkish prime minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, recently described the issue as "Kurdish problem", in contrast to the official line which views the Kurdish question only as a "terrorism problem." |
| Posted by:Dan Darling |
| #3 PKK doesn't seem to be a group of Kurds I'd like to see us supporting, Elvis. Th eremainder, yes, autonomy, yes. Communist, no |
| Posted by: Frank G 2005-08-29 22:46 |
| #2 So not all terrorist groups are bad.. |
| Posted by: Paul Moloney 2005-08-29 22:14 |
| #1 Interesting turn of events. Dangerous game we play when we deal with the PKK or any Kurds. Do we help them acheive autonomy, do we chastise them, do we attack them? Kurds don't know how not to fight I think, they need someone to be pissed at. They've been fighting for a homeland too long to sit still/ I say screw the Turkish, keep the peace in Iraq. Call this payback for not letting us launch the Iraqi invasion across Turkey and let the Kurds cause a little trouble for Turkey, Syria, and Iran. EP |
| Posted by: ElvisHasLeftTheBuilding 2005-08-29 17:49 |