Related: P.J.A.K.
"Turkey marks 25 years of Kurd rebellion; Explosion kills one in Istanbul" by Christopher Torchia, Associated Press | August 16, 2009
ISTANBUL - Turkey marked 25 years yesterday since the first Kurdish rebel attacks, with political leaders calling for reconciliation, though the government has yet to offer a new plan for ending the conflict.
How many years was it of government oppression?
The fighting has died down since the 1990s, but the Kurdish conflict remains a drag on Turkey’s drive to modernity and an obstacle to the country’s joining the European Union.
The fighting began Aug. 15, 1984, when separatist rebels attacked police and military units in the southeastern towns of Eruh and Semdinli before fleeing to bases in northern Iraq. Since then, some 40,000 people have died as the rebels seek autonomy for Kurds concentrated in Turkey’s southeast.
Yes, MOSTLY KURDS!
Again, the OMISSION says MORE than the STATEMENT!
Kurdish activists held a festival yesterday in Eruh, where extra security forces were deployed.
Speakers appealed for peace, and crowds listened to traditional music at an open-air concert.
Of course, with the MSM approving of a "protest" if you will, it seems like they are playing both sides of this coin, 'eh?
Parliament Speaker Mehmet Ali Sahin called for reconciliation with the Kurdish minority.
“I see a great advantage in putting aside all prejudice,’’ he said on Turkish television, dismissing nationalist claims that allowing Kurds to have more rights would “divide Turkey.’’
You know, I AM NEVER AGAINST PEACE and FREEDOM!
Interior Minister Besir Atalay met delegates of 20 nongovernmental organizations in Ankara as part of a government effort to rally support for a peace plan that has yet to be announced.
I'm not checking my watch for any government peace plan.
Abdullah Ocalan, imprisoned leader of the Kurdistan Workers Party, or PKK, is expected to release his own peace proposals soon through his lawyers.
On Friday, Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan said the “time has come for a radical solution’’ for ending the conflict, and urged the nationalist opposition to back the effort.
“Turkey has to face this problem and solve it through democracy,’’ Erdogan said. “We will take steps at any cost.’’
The question of how to persuade thousands of rebels to give up their weapons remains in deep dispute. Demands of the rebel PKK include amnesty for its top leaders, but such a deal would infuriate many Turks.
I see a deal collapsing; can a false-flag operation be far behind?
Late Friday, a blast in a trash container killed a night watchman and injured another person in Istanbul. Istanbul’s police chief, Huseyin Capkin, said that explosives caused the blast, but that it was unclear whether it was an act of terrorism. Kurdish militants have carried out attacks to mark the anniversary in past years, but radical leftist and Islamic groups have also staged bombings.
Again, NOTICE who is NOT FINGERED!
Any TURKISH NATIONALISTS in there?
CUI BONO?
If it were "Al-CIA-Duh" wouldn't the paper be screaming without the but, if, may be, could have been, etc?
Turkey has taken some steps to assimilate Kurds, who account for about 20 percent of the population of 75 million and are predominant in the country’s southeast.
Is that what you call killing them now?
Assimilation with what?
The soil of the grave?
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I doubt we will here much about Turkey's genocide of Kurds again.
Seems to be a pattern developing given what happened to the Armenians.
