After the 2+ year ceasefire collapsed with Turkish airstrikes against Kurdish targets in northern Iraq, the resumed war between Turkey and the PKK seems to be picking up dramatic steam, with a major PKK ambush killing at least 15 soldiers over the weekend.
This has Turkey beating the war drums even more, with Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu vowing to see the military “wipe out” the PKK outright, saying the country would never be discouraged from its war on terror against the Kurdish faction.
The war against the PKK has lasted over 30 years at this point, but there was considerable hope in 2013 when the two sides agreed to a ceasefire and peace talks. The talks stalled pretty quickly, but the peace endured, at least for awhile.
While President Erdogan railed against the “treacherous attack by the separatist terrorist organization,” however, it was actually his order to attack the PKK in Iraq earlier this summer that killed the peace, a move that was part of an effort to convince an overtly racist nationalist party to join his coalition. This effort failed, but the war continues.
This kind of rhetoric by Erdogan regime is nothing new, the enemy of the Kurdish people again and again been proven to be the present and turkey militarism regime. Such language is yet another war in confessing that Erdogan regime has been defeated and is about to collapse, otherwise, they would respect the peace and democracies principals by not using such idiotic language. Hitler wanted to wipe out the entire Jewish population, so as 1920s Turkish regime wanted to wipeout the entire Armenian people in Armanistan, now is time for this Turkish government to "wipeout" Kurdish people. One thing is for sure here, the Erdogan regime is showing his true fascistic face by using such word, so as proving to the world that his regime is THE supporter of ISIS rather then being Islamic democratic.
Turkey will ever be able to wipe out PKK kurds for the one reason being it is a political, and nationalistic idea that stems from the loss of homeland for all Kurdish peoples.
While the Kurds in Iraq are being treated as a US/Israeli Protectorate and as proxy holders of the major energy fields have been given autonomous control over a large part of old Iraq nation, the Kurds as a people are spread over a very large area covering Iran,Turkey, Iraq,Syria.
No matter the place the PKK shows up they are super nationalist and are but part of a much larger ethnic group that other than in Iraq are a minority in every other place.
In Turkey they had a conciderable following for formation of a political party representing but one small part of Turkeish lands, a revolt and the resulting brutalcrushing of it placed them on US terrorist list as we supported the larger group in IRAQ as a wedge to gain energy fields.
While Turkey claims war upon only PKK there is no difference in ethnicity and from ranks of all Kurds the killing of any part of them by Turkey may well bring even more recruits to PKK cause.
Nationalism by ethnicity is hard to deny no matter the peoples all seem to crane an Identity, and when one identity sets out to destroy a lesser identity by ethnicity destruction it is genocide. pKK wants political identity, Turkey wants them dead.
Turks will win but look for an even greaterconflict that could spread even to a wider land mass as Turkey will never accept the ethnicity of Kurds, even it the ones in Iraq are US/Israeli ass kissers.