No one does it better than Turkey.
Related: Kurds Battle Al-CIA-Duh in Syria
The Turks had a huge head start, and the Kurds are not exactly blameless. Being a CIA station and base for Israeli intelligence that launches attacks on Iran doesn't help matters.
"Turkish forces kill up to 115 Kurds" Associated Press, August 06, 2012
ANKARA, Turkey — Turkey’s security forces have killed as many as 115 Kurdish rebels during a major security offensive during the past two weeks, the country’s interior minister said Sunday.
Idris Naim Sahin said the rebels were killed in an airpower-backed offensive near the town of Semdinli, in Hakkari Province along the border with Iraq. He said the offensive began July 23.
Sahin provided few details of the ongoing operation but said the security forces were trying to block the rebels’ escape routes into northern Iraq.
Private NTV television said earlier that as many as 2,000 troops were involved in the offensive and that public access to some roads in the region were blocked.
Earlier Sunday, rebels fired on military posts in Hakkari province, including the paramilitary station near the village of Gecimli, about 12 miles from the frontier, according to a statement from the Hakkari governor’s office.
Governor Orhan Alimoglu said that attack led to clashes that killed 22 rebels, soldiers, and village guards. At least 15 soldiers, another village guard, and five civilians were also injured in the attack.
The attack comes some six weeks after a similar raid on a military unit, also in Hakkari Province, killed 18 rebels and eight soldiers, prompting Turkey’s military to send warplanes and attack helicopters to hit Kurdish rebel targets inside Iraq.
The rebels of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party, or PKK, are fighting for autonomy in Turkey’s Kurdish-dominated southeast and maintain bases in northern Iraq from where they launch hit-and-run attacks on Turkish targets. The rebels took up arms in 1984.
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"Girl, 12, is 9th victim of Turkey blast" by CHRISTOPHER TORCHIA | Associated Press, August 22, 2012
ISTANBUL — A 12-year-old girl became the ninth victim Tuesday of a bomb blast in Turkey’s southeast, which has highlighted fears that Kurdish rebels seeking self-rule are becoming emboldened by moves toward autonomy by the Kurdish minority in war-torn Syria.
Deputy Prime Minister Besir Atalay said that the girl had died of her wounds and that three other children were among those killed when a bomb concealed in a vehicle exploded Monday night near a police station in the city of Gaziantep, near the Syrian border, where tens of thousands of refugees are sheltering in Turkish camps.
Dozens more were wounded in the blast, which occurred on a Muslim holiday and came amid an increase in fighting in recent weeks between Turkish forces and Kurdish rebels who took up arms in 1984.
Hmmmmm! When it occurs on a Muslim holiday I suspect very much that western intelligence agencies were involved. Didn't this occur at a time when Israel and Turkey were allegedly feuding?
There was no claim of responsibility, and Firat, a pro-Kurdish news agency, cited militants as saying they were not involved and guerrilla forces would not attack civilians.
The HALLMARK of a FALSE FLAG!
However, Turkish Interior Minister Idris Naim Sahin said any disavowal by the rebel Kurdistan Workers’ Party, or PKK, was not credible, according to Turkey’s NTV television. Kurdish militants have targeted civilians, and the PKK is deemed a terrorist group by Turkey and its Western allies.
‘‘The fact that the PKK has not claimed the attack does not mean that it didn’t do it,’’ Sahin said during a visit to Gaziantep. ‘‘The attack has links within and outside of Turkey.’’
Turkey has conducted periodic air strikes against Kurdish rebel bases in the mountains of northern Iraq, but is now concerned that the guerrillas are organizing in Kurdish-dominated parts of Syria sympathetic to their cause, and where regime forces have pulled back.
Fighters from a Syrian Kurd group have set up checkpoints and hoisted Kurdish flags in areas near Turkey, and Turkish forces have staged several drills on their side of the border in a show of force.
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"Turkey blames Kurd rebels for blast" by Christopher Torchia | Associated Press, August 23, 2012
ISTANBUL — The Turkish government blamed a Kurdish rebel group Wednesday for a bomb attack that killed nine people near the Syrian border, amid concerns by ruling party officials that the militants may be developing links with the regime in Syria and its civil war could have a destabilizing effect on Turkey.
Wow, the AmeriKan jewsmedia is trying to link them to the Syrian government there.
The explosion in the city of Gaziantep on Monday followed an escalation in fighting between Turkish forces and the rebel Kurdistan Workers’ Party, or PKK, which had close ties in the 1990s to then President Hafez Assad of Syria, father of current leader Bashar Assad. Turkey, which seeks the ouster of Assad, is sheltering about 70,000 Syrian refugees and has urged the United Nations to set up camps inside Syria for the displaced, a step that would require the intervention of a security force and pose a direct challenge to Syrian authorities.
Turkey is doing more than sheltering poor refugees created by AmeriKa's Al-CIA-Duh intervention in Syria; they are a base from which Syrian insurgents operate.
Some commentators, however, have warned that Turkey misjudged the resilience of the Assad regime and is being pulled into a wider conflict with implications for the most vexing issue on its domestic agenda — a resolution of the state’s conflict with Turkish Kurds who want self-rule in the mostly Kurdish southeast part of the country.
They did. They hooked their star to the EUSraeli Empire on this, and it is likely to end the way it did for those who collaborated with the Nazis.
The PKK has denied any role in the Gaziantep blast, which included several children among the dead, but Turkish officials, including President Abdullah Gul, cited the group’s hand in past attacks as a sign that it was the perpetrator.
This is reeking more and more like a false flag, possibly even from Turkish intelligence. Waving dead kids at people is usually a hallmark of a covert government operation.
‘‘The incident is totally the work of the PKK,’’ said Gaziantep governor Erdal Ata. ‘‘Certain information has been attained. It may not be right to share it now, but evidence is being assessed.’’
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Related(?):
"An explosion and blaze triggered by an accidentally dropped hand grenade killed 25 soldiers during a stock check at a Turkish ammunition depot, the government said Thursday."
"1 killed, 18 wounded in bomb attack in Turkey" Associated Press, November 05, 2012
ANKARA, Turkey — Kurdish rebels detonated a car bomb in southeast Turkey on Sunday, killing an 11-year-old child and wounding 18 other people, officials said.
Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan said the explosion occurred as an armored police vehicle was traveling on a road in the town of Semdinli, near the border with Iraq. The bomb went off close to a wedding celebration.
Erdogan blamed the attack on the Kurdistan Workers’ Party, or PKK, which is fighting for self-rule in Turkey’s southeast and is active in Semdinli.
The attack comes amid a surge in violence by the rebels in recent months. Hundreds of Kurdish inmates are on a hunger strike to demand increased rights for Kurds and the PKK has staged some its most audacious attacks in years.
That's the Zionist Jew narrative of things anyway. Odd how little I've seen of that hunger strike.
Tens of thousands of people have been killed since the PKK took up arms in 1984.
Mostly Kurds.
The government is alarmed by recent indications that Syrian Kurdish groups sympathetic to the PKK have reached an unofficial agreement with Syrian President Bashir Assad allowing them to govern sections of northern Syria.
That change has allowed Kurdish separatists to refocus their attention on Turkey, with bold new attacks and a campaign aimed at kidnapping teachers and burning down schools.
Okay! Now we KNOW it is a COVERT INTELLIGENCE PROVOCATION because NO REVOLUTIONARIES fighting for their freedom and independence do that! Whoever did that did it to GIVE the REBELS a BAD NAME! Now who would want to do that?
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"17 soldiers killed in helicopter crash
ANKARA — A Turkish military helicopter carrying soldiers on a mission against Kurdish rebels crashed because of bad weather on Saturday, killing all 17 troops onboard, officials said. Thirteen soldiers and four military crewmembers were killed in the crash in a mountainous part of southeastern Turkey, where the rebel Kurdistan Worker’s Party is fighting for self-rule. President Abdullah Gul said the soldiers were on their way ‘‘to help their friends’’ in an operation against the rebels (AP)."
And who do you think did this?
"Three Kurdish activists are found slain in Paris" by Dan Bilefsky and Alan Cowell | New York Times, January 11, 2013
PARIS — The three Kurdish women were slain, two with bullets to the head, the third with a shot to the stomach. It was a carefully planned killing in a nondescript building in central Paris.
It looks like an intelligence agency assassination team.
When the bodies were found early Thursday, the office was locked from the outside. Three bullet casings were found on the floor. Blood was splattered on the door.
[Kurds blame Turkish intelligence, while Erdogan denies guilt, claiming that “It could be an internal score settling,”. Sources report that the entrance was locked from the inside. There have been no reports of bullet holes in windows within the first-floor facility, which might have come from balconies across from 147 Rue la Fayette.] -- Three Female Kurdish Workers Assassinated, All Shot In The Head In Paris Kurdish Institute
One of the dead women was a founder of the Kurdistan Workers Party — or PKK — a Kurdish separatist group that has waged a guerrilla war against Turkey since 1984. The other two were Kurdish activists who may well have died because they were simply in the wrong place at the wrong time.
There were competing theories over who was responsible, and outraged Kurds poured into the street in Paris, blaming Turkey. Officials there said the killings were likely a dispute among Kurds, perhaps intended to derail new peace talks between the government and the PKK’s jailed leader, or to settle a score.
But these were theories. The evidence spoke only to a well-planned job.
“No hypothesis can be excluded at this stage’’ about the motive, said Agnes Thibault-Lecuivre, a spokeswoman for the Paris prosecutor’s office. Visiting the crime scene on Thursday, Interior Minister Manuel Valls called the killings ‘‘intolerable’’ and said they were ‘‘without doubt an execution.’’
The shootings took place in the gritty 10th district of the city, near the Gare du Nord railroad station, in a working-class immigrant neighborhood of Turkish kebab shops and African hair salons. The killings prompted outrage, raised fears of violent revenge violence, and opened a new chapter in the often murky annals of Kurdish exile life.
When the AmeriKan media uses the word murky it means they are hiding something.
The bodies were found about 2 a.m. inside the Kurdish Information Center that is used to promote Kurds’ political and cultural agendas. Someone would have to have known the office was there; there was no plaque outside. And the front door could only be opened with a digital code — or if the occupants buzzed someone in, the manager of the center, Leon Edart, told reporters.
That possibility led to many questions. Did the women know their killer? Did the killer slip in behind a welcomed guest? An organization called the Federation of Kurdish Associations in France, representing many of the estimated 150,000 Kurdish exiles in the country, added to the intrigue, saying in a statement that the victims might have been killed with weapons equipped with silencers.
An intelligence agency hit team.
“Why anyone would want to do this is unclear,’’ said Rusen Werdi, a Kurdish lawyer who knew two of the women. ‘‘It was an ambush.’’
The bodies, she said, were discovered after friends became concerned about the women because cellphone calls had gone unanswered and none of them had returned home.
Thibault-Lecuivre said the antiterrorism department of the prosecutor’s office would oversee the investigation.
The authorities confirmed the identity of two of the victims: Leyla Soylemeza, a young Kurdish activist, and Fidan Dogan, the head of the Kurdish Information Center and a representative of the Kurdistan National Congress. News media reports said the third woman was Sakine Cansiz, a founder of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party.
But for all the intrigue, Werdi said, it appeared that the target was Cansiz, a founding member of the PKK. The other two victims may well have been killed because they were there with her.
Werdi said that at least one of the women had been under surveillance by the French police because of her activism. She said that Cansiz had been keeping a low profile in recent months and it was rare for her to be at the information center.
Well, THAT REALLY STINKS! Under surveillance by the authorities, yet the KILLER(S) got away? And it was rare for her to be there?
Question: Did French police alert someone regarding her location?
The PKK is no stranger to infighting and internal strife. Hurriyet, a Turkish daily newspaper, said Cansiz was ‘‘known for her opposition to the alleged head of the PKK’s armed wing, Syrian citizen Ferman Hussein.’’
Oh, okay. So the French had a peaceful woman opposed to militarism under surveillance?
Cansiz had been in Paris since 2007 after the authorities in Germany arrested and briefly held her before turning down a Turkish request for her extradition.
Kurdish activists said she was very close to Abdullah Ocalan, the head of the PKK, who has been jailed since 1999. Cansiz was imprisoned in Turkey in 1979 and freed in 1991, after which they said she became active in the organization. She played a leading role garnering financial and political support for the Kurdish cause in Europe.
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"Thousands mourn slain Kurds" by Mehmet Guzel | Associated Press, January 18, 2013
DIYARBAKIR, Turkey — Tens of thousands gathered Thursday for the funeral ceremony of three Kurdish activists who were shot dead in Paris in an attack many believe was an attempt to derail peace talks. Kurdish legislators, meanwhile, vowed to support peace efforts to end the decades-long conflict between Turkey and autonomy-seeking Kurdish rebels.
The three female activists, including Sakine Cansiz, a founding member of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party, or PKK, were slain last week at a time when Turkey is engaged in talks with the rebels’ jailed leader, Abdullah Ocalan, to persuade his group to disarm.
Related: Abdullah Ocalan: Is The Famed Kurdish Leader A Double Agent Working For Turkish Intelligence Against His Own Party, The PKK?
Also see:
Kurdish rebel leader offers cease-fire proposal to Turkey
Kurds’ leader declares truce in Turkey
I'm always for peace, and am perturbed when it is a ploy.
Up to 50,000 mourners assembled behind the victims’ coffins draped in PKK’s flags in city of Diyarbakir for a funeral ceremony. The chairman of the pro-Kurdish Peace and Democracy Party, Selahattin Demirtas, told the crowd that the killings would not deter Kurds from seeking peace.
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Related: Driver held in Paris slayings of Kurds
I never saw another word about it, and that speaks volumes as to who the real perpetrators were.
"Rebels abduct Turkish lawmaker" Associated Press, August 13, 2012
ANKARA, Turkey — Turkish troops launched a search Sunday for a lawmaker kidnapped by Kurdish rebels near the eastern city of Tunceli, authorities and the lawmaker’s party said.
Huseyin Aygun, from the main opposition Republican People’s Party, was abducted Sunday evening at a roadblock between the town of Ovacik and Tunceli, party spokesman Haluk Koc said during a televised news conference....
‘‘For the first time, a lawmaker has been kidnapped by the terrorist organization,’’ Koc said. ‘‘It shows where the level of terrorism has reached.’’
The rebels of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party are fighting for autonomy in the Kurdish-dominated southeast region and maintain bases in northern Iraq from where they launch hit-and-run attacks on Turkish targets.
The group is considered a terrorist organization by the United States and the European Union.
Turkey has raised concerns that the rebels could now also exploit a power vacuum in neighboring Syria, and has warned it will ‘‘not tolerate’’ any rebel threats from Syrian territory.
Just itching to go in there, aren't they?
The Turkish government said last month that the rebels have seized control of five towns along the border in collaboration with Syria’s Democratic Union Party — an ethnic Kurdish grouping. Turkey has launched military drills near the frontier in a show of strength.
So who benefits from the alleged kidnapping?
NTV television reported Governor Mustafa Taskesen of Tunceli Province as saying that Aygun was kidnapped under orders from Kurdish rebel command, which is based deep in northern Iraq.
How does this help Kurds?
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"Kurdish rebels halt withdrawal from Turkey" Associated Press, September 10, 2013
ANKARA, Turkey — Kurdish rebels said Monday that they are suspending their withdrawal from Turkey into bases in northern Iraq over what they say is the Turkish government’s failure to advance peace talks aimed at ending a nearly 30-year-old conflict.
And the Paris assassinations also monkey-wrenched the talks. Hmmmm.
The Kurdistan Workers Party, or PKK, declared a cease-fire in March and began withdrawing fighters from Turkey in May. Turkey, in turn, was expected to enact reforms to improve Kurdish rights. But a PKK statement, carried by the pro-Kurdish Firat news agency, accused Turkey of failing to honor the bargain and called on it to take steps toward ‘‘democratization and the resolution of the Kurdish problem.’’
The group said the cease-fire would stand.
Deputy Prime Minister Bekir Bozdag dismissed the rebel statement and said Turkey was determined to end the conflict. ‘‘Whatever the terror organization does is up to them. But Turkey will do whatever needs to be done.’’
This is a politically sensitive time for Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who is facing local elections in March and may be reluctant to take controversial steps that may be seen as concessions to the rebels.
Erdogan’s government has said it is working on reforms but has delayed bringing proposals to Parliament. The government has also argued the rebels have not fully pulled out of Turkey.
The PKK said it wants the government to ease the isolation of the party’s imprisoned leader, Abdullah Ocalan, and change antiterrorism laws to ensure the release of hundreds of Kurdish activists. Ocalan is serving a life term on a prison island and has limited access to lawyers and Kurdish politicians involved in the peace talks. Other demands include the education of Kurdish school children in their mother tongue.
The conflict between Turkey and the autonomy-seeking PKK has claimed tens of thousands of lives since 1984. The group is considered a terror organization by Turkey, the United States, and European Union.
About 40,000 for anyone who is counting.
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"Turkey issues proposals to boost rights" by Desmond Butler | Associated Press, October 01, 2013
ANKARA, Turkey — Turkey’s prime minister on Monday unveiled a long-awaited package of proposals aimed at democratic reform, including lifting some restrictions on the use of the Kurdish language.
The changes are seen as key to the political prospects of Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who has faced down a flurry of protests by Turks weary of what they consider his heavy-handed rule.
Related: Turkey's Protests End
Or so I was told.
Erdogan and his party face a series of elections over the next two years, but it is unclear whether the new rules will go far enough to appease his critics, energize his conservative base, and help restore momentum to peace negotiations with a Kurdish minority that has been seeking more autonomy.
Erdogan called the changes a historic step in solidifying Turkey’s democracy.
‘‘Turkey is progressing in an irrevocable way on the path of democratization,’’ he said.
The unveiling of the package has been delayed several times as talks with Kurdish leaders stalled. Kurdish rebels said this month they were suspending their pullout from Turkey into bases in northern Iraq, arguing that Erdogan’s government had not made good on promises to enact reforms to improve Kurdish rights.
The plans had been kept under wraps until Erdogan announced them before reporters in Ankara. They stopped short of some expectations.
Kurdish groups had also demanded that Erdogan go further on liberalizing restrictions on the use of their language, so that Kurdish children would have the right to education in their mother tongue.
Kurds see current restrictions as one of the key tools of cultural repression. Kurds make up 20 percent of Turkey’s nearly 75 million citizens.
Erdogan’s proposal would allow private schools to have some classes in Kurdish. The reforms would also allow the letters q, w and x, which are part of the Kurdish alphabet but not the Turkish one, to be used in official documents.
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Related: Kurdish rebels: Turkey reforms not enough
I also see that Kurdish terrorists can now take a direct flight from Turkey before attending school in Boston, but there is no need to worry says my Boston Globe.
