Speaking today in an interview to a pro-Kurdish news agency, PKK field commander Murat Karayilan rejected Turkish demands that they declare a unilateral ceasefire, saying any return to a state of ceasefire would have to be mutual.
Turkish officials are demanding that before they will consider any ceasefire, the PKK totally disarm and all their fighters relocate to camps in Northern Iraq. Since Turkey launched strikes against PKK camps inside Iraq to end the last ceasefire, this appears to be a non-starter.
Karayilan says that he believes that the ruling Erdogan government started the war largely in an effort to try to gain votes for themselves and to drive down the pro-Kurdish opposition HDP, trying to drop them below the 10% threshold needed for seats in the Turkish parliament.
The HDP had gained 10% for the first time in the June vote, leaving the ruling AKP short of the majority needed to form a government. After unsuccessfully courting the overtly racist MHP, they scheduled new elections for early November.
Let's hope the Turkish people are smarter than Americans and continue withdrawing support from the thuggish Erdogan.
Back in ancient days .some men with brains were trying to figure out how to express his humanity towards s not just man women and little boys( they were Greeks after all) but all the defenseless animals they shared earth with.
Now they were not all aa intelligent as Solon, Archemedies and a lot of other guys who loved to don flowing togas and have some wine and bullshit about such serious things as WTF would an Angel want to sit on a pins point and my story is about you know the type talks with a drawl and the jack o lantern on porch
carved by his 11 year old wife, has more teeth than the man or woman of the house who sits their couch on the porch.
Well on a damnd cold day in mountains of Greece an originator of redneck gene pool was walking home after checking his still and crawdad traps, when he happened to seen this big old puff adder laying all coiled up and barelyshivering
from the cold.
Now he had sat at the village gate to hear his elders say all of us on earth are one with the creator and wanting to score some points so his mash did not freeze
he placed the frozen poor. Old adder in his shirt next to his warm belly.
It was not long when he felt the adder moving quite vigorously and then by golly that damn snake bit him a bunch of times and filled him full of poison.
Grabbing that adder he threw it on ground and asked it WTF did it bite him: and the addern replied ,” You knew before hand my n ature but yet you hoping to get glory points took a chance
I am an adder and my nature is to , bruise all mans heels.
Now that snake did not mean a tar hel , he was in the scorpion and the frog crossing the creek.
That puff adder historicly equates to Turkish nations perchance for treachery towards all those of non Turks.
Do not woder why any Kurd should ever chance being with in Turks striking range.
There has never been a reliable or honorable and humane Turkish government , they are racist to afault and will turn upon anyone they believe is weak.
The Ottoman Empire was and still is in it’s current incarnation o ne of most
corrupt and moraly decadent that everbwalkedbthe sands and ruled. In the ME and lower Central Asian lands.
They kill Kurds because they want to kill kurds and actually they care not who the factions are fighting for or against. They will let God sort out the remains.
Someb within Turkey a very very largefaction of them are pro warnand dreaming ofba newnEmpire carved out of the waeak peoplesbwho after fighting for years are even weKer and more disoriented today than they were 10 years ago.
Never have Turks kept word to Kurds , they just accomodate for awhile and then throw em into chaos and fear once more.
Turkey had no score to enter into this warfae and kiling fields , they are there because they enjoy being there.
WTF does everybody blame one fn man in every nation for committing all the atrocities, they all have fac tions within their populace who enjoy the power that dealiing death brings to their self esteem. In all lands no mattrr whose there are those who fawn to all the eye of those stronger than they to protect their
perverted natures
And those who murder may try to hide behind flags and jingos of dogmas Bull Crap and should be made to pay for their crimes