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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsRump, his bootlicker Rethugs, and Erdogan will spin it as a battle against only the YPG, PKK, and
their allies, and not a move against all Kurds.Turkey is already doing this.
Who Are the Syrian Kurds the U.S. Is Abandoning?
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-10-07/who-are-the-syrian-kurds-the-u-s-is-abandoning-quicktake
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Rump, his bootlicker Rethugs, and Erdogan will spin it as a battle against only the YPG, PKK, and (Original Post)
Celerity
Oct 2019
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roamer65
(36,745 posts)1. Turkey will be responsible for another genocide.
They will do to Kurds what they did to Armenians.
All thanks to Dump.
Celerity
(43,383 posts)2. they will claim their are only targeting 'terrorists', not the whole group
It is already happening.
LeftInTX
(25,337 posts)3. Most of the news sources in the screenshot are Turkish
Daily Sabah, Yeni Safak, Anadolu Agency and Hurriyet are all Turkish
The author of the Bloomberg article is Turkish. (I haven't read it cuz I've got horrible sciatica, but with his name I can predict what it says)
Did you do a search via Turkish sources???
This type of talk is exactly what I expect from Turkey. They've been talking like this for years...and ever since I encountered Turks on the internet 20 years ago. "Armenians = PKK = ASALA" is what I would read.
Celerity
(43,383 posts)4. thus my 'Turkey is already doing this' statement
that was the point
LeftInTX
(25,337 posts)6. That's what Turkey does
They've been doing this forever.....
Trump is stupid to listen to Erdogan.
LeftInTX
(25,337 posts)5. They're still comparing PKK to ASALA....
Geez....
From 2017
https://avim.org.tr/en/Yorum/RELATIONS-BETWEEN-THE-PKK-AND-ASALA
The relationship between the Turkish left on one hand, and Armenian and Kurdish nationalists on the other is not new. The political line of Bakırcıyans organization TİKKO is notable for its opposition to Kemalism and the Turkish nation building project. TİKKOs founder İbrahim Kaypakkaya was one of the first leftist leaders to categorize Kemalism as fascism and to introduce the Armenian issue into political discourse.[3] The foundations laid by Kaypakkaya still shape much of the Turkish lefts views on the Armenian issue.
This article argues that the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) emerged as an integral part of the Turkish left and its views on the Armenian issue have been shaped in accordance with the ideological current developed by Kaypakkaya.[4] Resultantly, the PKKs cooperation with Armenian terrorists was not strictly based on tactical necessity.