While most of Turkey’s military focus is on fighting against ISIS along the Syrian border, the nation is also facing soaring tension with its own Kurdish minority, both in its country and along the border. Turkish airstrikes against PKK targets in Iraq on Friday sparked the latest round of violence.
Turkey had a formal truce with the PKK for over two years before Friday’s attacks, and Turkish officials were quick to blame the PKK for a Friday car bombing that killed two Turkish soldiers in a Kurdish region of Turkey, following it up with more airstrikes in Iraq.
Now, Turkish police are clashing with Kurdish demonstrators in their capital city of Ankara, and the PKK says that the long-standing truce no longer has any meaning after the airstrikes, suggesting the multi-decade war against Kurdish secessionists may be once again heating up in a big way.
The 2012 truce was supposed to give way to talks on ending the PKK war with Turkey, but talks stalled fairly quickly, with both sides trading blame, and it seemed like only a matter of time before the fighting resumed.
This greatly complicates the situation in southeastern Turkey, as they will have to cope with another surge in anger from the Kurdish population there, even as the fighting picks up with ISIS.
PKK and ISIS are the same thing..Both are terrorist organizations powered by Israel.
And " turkovic " is an nti terrorism personality supporting NATO and Turkish reactions when Kurdish people are killed, Yet blaming all sides being Israeli agents that wants to rule the world of terrorists. Next on his list is PYK, and still on his list is Vietnamese people who were called "communists" that were fighting a militarism regime with its police state as social agenda, a capitalism regimes which would change color when and where it was necessary calling it democracy, where the system would change government chosen by people and calling it "for people's freedom" not being able to,explain what freedom and from what they are changing governments chosen by the people, turkovic he is so smart when such high intelligence unables him to distinguish between a terrorist group and freedom fighters, Turkish-Kurdish people, who wants to be free from a religious dictatorial regime that the bases of such politics is being attached to NATO, a militarism regime, as Israel militarism been killin Arab-Palestinians in last 65 years, the Kurdish regime has done the same. During First World War the Turkish regime massacred more than a million Armenian, the very same religious Turkish Erdogan regimes wouldn't mind repeating the history to Kurdish people.
So it's obvious what ISIS have to do – much the same as the game they play in Gaza with the Israelis. Namely set off a few roadside bombs, fail to claim them and then get the Turks to retaliate against the 'obvious' culprits, the PKK. Suits both ISIS and Erdogan's ambition to overthrow the new Kurdish-led democratic mandate against his autocratic ambitions, PLUS they get full US support for doing so. It's a bonanza for Erdogan and ISIS alike!
So the American air force is leading PKK into ISIS territory with air strikes, while behind them, Turkey is conducting air strikes against that same PKK. Now that Turkey is going to allow the US to use airfields in Turkey, maybe the planes can take off from the same place.
What the blank is wrong with these people? How far is this from Heller's Catch-22, in which Milo Minderbinder arranges for the Germans and Americans to save time and gas by just bombing their own airfields?