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I just saw this headline in my email a few moments ago:
BUSH PLEDGES TO HELP TURKEY FIGHT KURDS
President Bush pledged fresh help to Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan in
fighting Kurdish rebels, declaring them “an enemy of Turkey, a free Iraq and the
United States.”
Frankly I have to admit that there’s times when I’m not keeping up with what’s going on in the world but this is the first *I* have heard about the Kurds being our enemy.
As a matter of fact, I recall that when we went into Iraq to take care of Saddam, the Kurds were allies. I think it had something to do with Saddam’s government killing them by the thousands… You may have heard about the reports of mass graves? (then again, you might not, funny how people manage to forget things like that) A bunch of them were Kurds.
Now things have turned around so much that President Bush, who a few years ago was talking about how they were among the peoples that were being oppressed by Saddam’s regime, is now calling them “an enemy of Turkey, a free Iraq and the United States.”??!?! WTF is this?!?!
Tell me there’s more to this than what it looks like on the surface! Tell me that there’s some kind of legitimate thinking and reasons behind this, because it’s not looking so good right now.
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i think you are pretty narrow minded. The enemy is not the Kurds. Its PKK, which is a terrorist organization that killed more than 30000(majority of innocent Turkish and Kurdish people) people in 23 years. So get the facts right then write something about it. It is the same differentiation that Al-Qaeda is a terrorist organization and Arabs are not. But the Arabs who support the terrorist organizations are also terrorists. Turkey has more than 10 million people from Kurdish background who mostly are happy to live in Turkey. But i guess US citizens still cannot distinguish between the supporters of terrorists and innocent people. Please look under the surface. World is not as CNN portrays it to be.
Ilker it seems you are either a Turk or are the narrow minded one. Kurds happy to live under Turkish rule????!!! Like the Armeniens were happy in 1917 when the Turks murdered them. Are you nuts, the Turks will not even let the Kurds speak their own language or have their own culture. You must be an ignorant Turk if you believe the Kurds are happy.
Just like the KLA in Kosovo these “terrorist” groups eventually win over the people. Listen up Turk boy, the days of the oil rich southern section belonging to Turkey are numbered. The Kurds will eventually get what is owed to them, a country.
See this is a perfect example of bad karma: Turkey sends arms and troops to help out the Bosnian and Albanian separatists separate from Yugoslavia only to have the same problem happen to them.
Being a Kurd myself, I have to agree that it Ilker sure writes like a Turk. I guess He’d just rather we all be “good Germans” and go along with what his state-sponsored-terrorist-nazi-wannabe dictates.
No thanks. Let’s Kick the Turks out.