After several rounds of airstrikes in northern Iraq, the Turkish military decided to stay a little closer to home today, carrying out a round of airstrikes in their own Sirnak Province against what they’re describing as “Kurdish terrorists.”
Beginning with Turkish airstrikes against PKK targets in Iraq on Friday, two years of ceasefire and peace negotiations came to an abrupt ending. Turkey’s ruling party today suggested the peace talks “might restart” if the PKK agreed to unilaterally disarm and withdraw from Turkey entirely.
Turkey and the PKK have been fighting an on-again, off-again war for decades centering around demands for Kurdish autonomy, and potentially outright secession, in the nation’s southeast. The recent round of peace talks had stalled, but had ending years of violence.
NATO endorsed Turkey’s attacks on ISIS in today’s meeting, but was somewhat tepid in its support for attacks on the Kurds, with several nations urging Turkey to consider another round of peace talks. Considering how this one ended, it’s going to take more than a demand to disarm to bring the PKK back to the table, however.
I'll be that peace with the PKK could also re-start if the Turkish govt disarmed.
In the eye of a thief, everyone is a thief one way or the other. In the eyes of a terrorists everyone is terrorists when they disagree with terrorists. The word as a legal loophole given to Erdogan-NATO militarism to kill those that are not in line with their inhuman acts towards nations, when it was about Yugoslavia or when it happened in Iraq-Afghanistan or when is about Syria nor when these Neo liberals-Neo fascism started their killings of people, innocent people in each and every of these country's that they have managed to ruin. Now they parading their flag of shame to yet another regime which willingly will massacre thousands upon thousands of Kurdish-Syrian people for European-American flag of warmongers.
Terrorist — Lovers of junky pickups
The legalized killers that patrol the slums of USA, as their only burden is to protect the wealth of the upper half of society from the impoverished laboring-class, they look upon anyone with a 5 year old car as a terrorist, as the poor are so filled with vengeance that at any moment they could explode.
Same situation with the ruling party in Turkey, as they have never been able to tolerate the slightest opposition.
this article should be removed! it’s for turkish cause!
[moderator’s note: It’s not for any regime’s “cause.” It’s a news piece – TLK]
Arm them in Syria and Iraq, but disarm them in Turkey. Bomb in support of them in Syria and Iraq, but bomb them in Syria too.
This could not possibly work out. It can only go bad.