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Kurds fight the ISIS group while being bombed by Turkey
2015-07-26
[RUDAW.NET] Turkish jets struck camps belonging to Kurdish forces of Evil good in northern Iraq Friday and Saturday in what were the first strikes since a peace deal was announced in 2013.

The strikes in Iraq targeted the Kurdistan Workers' Party, or PKK, whose affiliates have been effective in battling the Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems....
 group.

The Kurds of Syria and Iraq have become a major part of the war against the Islamic State group, with Kurdish populations in both countries threatened by the holy warriors' advance. Syrian, Iraqi and Turkish Kurds took part in cross-border operations to help rescue tens of thousands of displaced people from the minority Yazidi group from Iraq's Shingal Mountain in August last year and they continue to fight in cooperation with one another against the Islamic State group in areas along the Iraq-Syria border.

They have been somewhat effective in limiting the expansion of the Islamic State forces of Evil across northern Iraq but there are concerns that Turkish Arclight airstrikes on the PKK could jeopardize Kurdish positions.
The Times of Israel adds:
The jets hit PKK shelters, bunkers, caves, storages facilities and other "logistical points," the Turkish government statement said. Areas targeted included the Qandil mountains, where the PKK's command is based.

The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire....
's military also shelled IS and PKK positions from across the Turkish border, the government said.
Posted by:Fred

#5  The newer generation trusted us - we did do them right (under Bill Clinton, of all people) for a while, and they were the best to work with after 9/11. Then the rot set in on our side of the relationship - we suddenly became more sensitive to Iran and Turkey than the Kurds. Right about the time ValJar and JugEars showed up.
Posted by: OldSpook   2015-07-26 14:28  

#4  Yes, like 1975.
Posted by: Pappy   2015-07-26 09:34  

#3  Even before that I'm afraid.
Posted by: Besoeker   2015-07-26 06:11  

#2  now the Kurds are seeing the US for what we are: feckless and weak, and unreliable as an ally.

Oh, I think they've grasped it in the aftermath of the first Gulf war, OldSpook.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2015-07-26 04:02  

#1  Effective Kurds have been beating ISIS pretty well. This is more evidence that the Turks have helped ISIS, at least clandestinely, in the style of the Pakistani ISI re: Taliban.

We need to treat the Turks as a hostiles - and back the Kurds fully in their liberation of a homeland carved out of Kurd majority areas in southeast Turkey.

But we will not.

Those airstraikes were seen all the way by US controllers, and Obama had them sit on their hands, and do nothing.

Eventually the Turks will pay for this in blood - there is always a reckoning for this kind of crap. Whats worse, is now the Kurds are seeing the US for what we are: feckless and weak, and unreliable as an ally.

Posted by: OldSpook   2015-07-26 02:07  

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