As Turkey continues to pound the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) everywhere, the focus has become particularly intense on northern Iraq, where several PKK-held villages are being targeted, and reports are emerging of civilian deaths.
The Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG), the government of Iraqi Kurdistan, has issued a statement over the weekend calling for the PKK to withdraw all of its fighters from Iraqi territory “to ensure the civilians of Kurdistan don’t become victims of that fighting and conflict.”
The KRG, as well as Iraq’s central government, have both condemned Turkish airstrikes against northern Iraq as a violation of sovereignty, but there is no indication that Turkey plans on slowing down any time soon. They have been at war with the PKK for decades, and this latest round of attacks marks the end of a two-year ceasefire.
The KRG also seems irked at the PKK however, complaining that PKK forces had sabotaged the oil pipeline in northern Kurdistan. Iraq’s oil goes through that pipeline into neighboring Turkey, to a port on the Mediterranean. The money from that oil is hugely important to the KRG, and even if it hurts the Turkish government to attack it, the PKK risks alienating its allies by targeting the pipeline.
The PKK are for a Revolution that gains freedom for all, whereas, rulers of the Iraq Kurds have their oil wealth and could care less who has freedom. And this is the corrupting influence of the West pumping immense into the Middle-East, as it makes rich those who did nothing to earn it, most inflating to the pride and most corrupting to the moral fabric of society.
NEW LAW
No one shall own wealth unless they endure the sweat, stress and pain of manual labor to earn it.
Sorry the world does not work that way . It is nice when the people that do the work get the money .But first they have to pay for their insurance . After their insurance , education , police protection and important administrative expenses . They do get the money if anything is left . However if their fixed costs are too high often their is nothing left .