Turkey in fresh Iraq air strikes
Turkey has launched fresh air strikes against Kurdish rebels in northern Iraq, the Turkish military says.Who are the PKK?
Fighter planes attacked positions held by the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) in a 35-minute raid, according to a statement on the army's website.
Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK)
The PKK’s goal has been to establish an independent Kurdish state in southeast Turkey, northern Iraq, and parts of Iran and Syria.Roots of the Kurdish struggle run deep
The PKK is as much of a threat to Iran as it is to Turkey. In February, the London Sunday Telegraph wrote that the US was funding ethnic separatist groups (non-Persian, which make up nearly 40% of Iran's 70 million) inside Iran to create trouble for the Iranian regime. This was backed by several editorials written by investigative reporter Seymour Hersh in The New Yorker, claiming that the US plans to weaken the Islamic Republic through separatist movements operating from within Iranian territory against the Tehran government. These include Kurds, Azeris and Ahwaz Arabs.Recapping is tricky.
This won't break the Tehran regime, they believe, but might exert enough pressure on Grand Ayatollah Ali Khamenei to abandon his nuclear program. One of the many factions receiving external support to apply pressure on the mullahs of Tehran is the PKK. Last year, Iran launched operations into Iraqi territory to track down members of the PKK operating on the Iranian-Iraqi border, arresting 40 Kurdish rebels.
There is the understanding that the US is trying to destabilize Iran by supporting ethnic separatist groups in the region and the PKK fall into that category.
Yet the PKK also want part of Turkey, Turkey being the long time ally of the US.
Do you see the screwy conflict. We are both supporting a group, The PKK, that is messing with Iran, yet that same group, The PKK, is messing with Turkey. So we are also working to prevent the group from going into Turkey by allowing Turkey to bomb them.
The US is both supporting the PKK and giving the go ahead to Turkey to bomb them. Who invents this stuff?
4 comments:
The pic. is great. Looks like a diagram of the BV$H foreign policy doesn't it?
That's what I was thinking, when I picked it. My google words were something like "arrows pointing anywhere"
I did a quick check, but it looks like the first Turkey attack on the PKK in Iraq occurs after the release of the NIE.
It almost looks like they caved in on nuke weapons in Iran, and in the process gave up the PKK who they were previously supporting, who they were also using to distract the Iranians in power.
It would be fun to be a bug on the wall in the CIA and the White House to get the full info. Eventually it will come out.
Their all a bunch of EVIL MFers if u ask me. They KILL between cocktails. We've morphed into a later Roman Empire redux and it sucks. Where's Madame Defarge when we need her?
In spite of it all, people still could hold the power, except at this point they willingly and blindly give it away.
The elite play with people's lives, they seem to believe they are gods. Its not pretty.
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