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2005-07-19 Europe

U.S. Supports Turkish Operations Against PKK

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Posted by Fred 2005-07-19 00:00|| || Front Page|| [2 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 And if you were an ally, well then, just think how helpful we could be. But, alas, that's water under the bridge, eh? Stick you nose out an we'll send it back - in a bag. Otherwise, have a nice day!

Posted by .com 2005-07-19 00:58|| 2005-07-19 00:58|| Front Page Top

#2 The Kurdish insurgency??? where?

Posted by Rafael 2005-07-19 01:09|| 2005-07-19 01:09|| Front Page Top

#3 Pretty words of diplomats. What this actually says is that the US told Turkey that they better not chase the PKK into Iraq unless they want to deal with us.

Posted by 2b 2005-07-19 04:52|| 2005-07-19 04:52|| Front Page Top

#4 For those with short-term memory loss, a PKK suicide bomber just blew up in a Turkish resort town full of British tourists over the weekend. I suspect we're doing more than just the minimum this week on the subject of the freakazoid Marxist personality-cult in question. Or maybe not. Whoops.

Posted by Mitch H.">Mitch H. 2005-07-19 06:54|| http://blogfonte.blogspot.com/]">[http://blogfonte.blogspot.com/] 2005-07-19 06:54|| Front Page Top

#5 Turkey get the shaft from EU, in slides US.
There must be a buck to be had here.

Posted by bigjim-ky 2005-07-19 09:20|| 2005-07-19 09:20|| Front Page Top

#6 the pkk is a terrorist organization - I don't think anyone would disagree. And they will need to be dealt with in both Turkey and Iraq. But ditto what .com said.

Posted by 2b 2005-07-19 09:25|| 2005-07-19 09:25|| Front Page Top

#7 The PKK is a murderous band of Marxist thugs who all but worship Abdullah Occalan and live like it's Year 0 in addition to their penchant for suicide bombings. To conflate them with our Kurdish PUK and KDP allies (the former of which has periodically fought the PKK) would be a definite mistake.

Posted by Dan Darling">Dan Darling 2005-07-19 09:50|| http://www.regnumcrucis.blogspot.com]">[http://www.regnumcrucis.blogspot.com] 2005-07-19 09:50|| Front Page Top

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