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2014-10-09 The Grand Turk

Riots In Turkey As Islamic State Renew Assault On Kurdish Town

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Posted by trailing wife 2014-10-09 00:00|| || Front Page|| [5 views ] Top
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#1 Kurds are getting the shaft. Again.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2014-10-09 01:23|| 2014-10-09 01:23|| Front Page Top

#2 Turks make a habit of repressing the Kurds. It may cost the a large chunk of territory eventually. I hope it does.

Posted by OldSpook 2014-10-09 07:55|| 2014-10-09 07:55|| Front Page Top

#3 Spengler pointed out some years ago that while Turkey's Turks are at a below-replacement birthrate, Turkey's Kurds' average birthrate is, as I recall, double that. And while Kobani may well be destroyed -- apparently it is not considered a strategic loss or something by our senior people -- Turkey has suddenly acquired a significant number of new Kurdish residents who may not be able to return to Syria.

Spengler argued that within two generations the Kurds may well inherit all of Turkey, or at least all of it that matters.

Posted by trailing wife 2014-10-09 08:55|| 2014-10-09 08:55|| Front Page Top

#4 The Kurdish areas just happen to have the oil, coal and much of the mineral resources. Wonder why the Turks keep them down? Hard to rob them if the Turks don't.

Posted by OldSpook 2014-10-09 20:21|| 2014-10-09 20:21|| Front Page Top

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