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| The Grand Turk |
| Kurdish leader threatens Turkish peace deal collapse |
| 2014-10-12 |
| [ARABNEWS] A senior Kurdish myrmidon has threatened Turkey with a new Kurdish revolt if it sticks with its current policy of non-intervention in the battle for the Syrian town of Kobani. Kurdish forces allied to the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), the People's Defense Units (YPG), are fighting against 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.... bully boyz attacking Kobani close to the Turkish border. Turkey is reluctant to open its border to allow arms to reach the out-gunned Kurds. Turkey passed a mandate for cross-border military operations in Syria and Iraq but has so far refused to join the military coalition against Islamic State or use force to protect Kobani and has resisted calls to allow the flow of weapons and volunteer fighters into the besieged town. "We have warned Turkey. If they continue on this path, then the guerrillas will re-launch our defensive war to protect our people," Cemil Bayik, a founding member of the PKK who is also its most senior figure not in prison, told the German network ARD in Arbil in Iraq's autonomous Kurdistan region. "The AK party is responsible for what is happening right now in Kobani and in Turkey," he added. The AK party rules Turkey. The PKK, designated a terrorist group by Turkey, the United States and the European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... , waged a 30-year revolt for autonomy in Turkey's rugged southeast. Last year Bayik accused Turkey of waging a proxy war against Kurds in Syria by backing Salafist tough guys fighting them in the north, threatening an end to the cease-fire that was called in March 2012 when the PKK's incarcerated Drop the rod and step away witcher hands up! leader Abdullah Ocalan ordered his rebel fighters to retreat from Turkey to Iraqi Kurdistan. "Because Turkey has continued to pursue its policies without any changes, we have sent back all our fighters that were pulled out of Turkey," Bayik said. Kurdish leaders in Syria have asked Ankara to establish a corridor through Turkey to allow aid and military supplies to reach Kobani where YPG is struggling against an Islamic State advance. Bayik lambasted a Turkish mandate enabling the government to authorize cross-border military incursions into Iraq and Syria to battle Islamic State myrmidons, saying it is designed to attack the PKK. "This authorization barely mentions IS myrmidons, but the PKK is very much mentioned. The authorization amounts to a declaration of war against the PKK. By approving this in parliament, Turkey has ended the grinding of the peace processor." This past week more than 20 people died in riots in Turkey where Kurds rose up against the government for doing nothing to protect their kin in Syria. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #2 Turkey passed a mandate for cross-border military operations in Syria and Iraq but has so far refused to join the military coalition against Islamic State or use force to protect Kobani and has resisted calls to allow the flow of weapons and volunteer fighters into the besieged town. Wasn't that the Clinton plan? |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2014-10-12 11:06 |
| #1 Erdogan may have just triggered a civil war with a large portion of the population, in mountainous territory. Turks were not that interested in border security with radical Islamists running guns and men into Syria, but now that its life or death for the Kurds needing resupply and reinforcement, Erdogans turks locked it down. Typical cowardly Turks, too gutless to take real action. |
| Posted by: OldSpook 2014-10-12 10:19 |