"Kurdish PKK Fighters To Abandon The Fight Against The..." Topic

…Islamic State.

"TURKEY has killed 260 Kurdish militants in a week-long air offensive on targets in northern Iraq as regional Iraqi authorities said it was time the Kurds withdraw from the front line with ISIS as concerns grow over civilian casualties.

Turkey said it had launched a probe after pro-Kurdish media reports said nine civilians had been killed in a botched air strike, as the military pressed on with its relentless air bombardment campaign against Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) militants in northern Iraq.

Ankara has launched a two-pronged "anti-terror" offensive against Islamic State (IS) jihadists in Syria and PKK militants based in northern Iraq after a wave of attacks inside Turkey…"
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Turkey is making it very clear that of the two …. the Kurds are a bigger threat to them than the Islamic State.
Bad!!

Amicalement
Armand

So the Turks are defacto helping Deash … no real surprise there. The Turks letting the US use bases in Turkey is just their way of "" ! … No surprise there either, I guess …

Well … better "snipped" then DH'd … I guess …

I have heard of a us special ops raid on ISIS that found paperwork that showed that ISIS was being supported by the Turks . That the oil ISIS was selling was being bought by Turkish officials.

Now the Turks are going to create a buffer zone to put the Syrian refugees back in Syria and to keep the Kurds from controlling thev border. Now the Turks are rounding up Kurdish politicians and imprisoning them. They are trying to drive Turks away from the Kurdish party that won over 10% of the vote. What's his name is still trying to become the next Sultan.

What a treachery!… poor Kurds!.

So, Turkey (NATO) is allied of ISIS?… the rest of the European nations said/do nothing about that?

Now… who is going to stop those crazy murderers?.

Amicalement
Armand

Think we all understand that IS has no future, whether 5-10-30 years, they cannot sustain themselves in the long run. It is just a matter of how much pain a country suffers to destroy them.

The Kurds, however, are an indigenous national movement. The Turks have reason to fear them.

I am "pro Kurds" btw, I just see why the Turks fear them.

If anyone recalls, Saladin was a Kurd. I don't think Turkey wants to see another Kurd like him arise.

"Think we all understand that IS has no future…".

I hope you are right, but suspect that is wishful thinking, especially given their current vector, large expansion of territorial control and followers, and the dreadfully weak response to combat them.

Now… who is going to stop those crazy murderers?.

Why, no one will.

I also had heard the Turks were buying bootlegged oil from Deash at a very cheap price. And yes, the Turks have no love for the Kurds. For a number of reasons, valid or not to us in the West. We seem to be pro-Kurd in the West or at least in the US. As we like people who can fight for themselves and are good at it. Like Patton, said, "Everybody loves a winner !" … We see many in the rest of the region as weak and ineffective, etc. … They can't even combine to make a joint effort to purge the "crazy murders" of their own kind. Many in that region say the US has no respect for them. They don't understand … respect is earned not given out lightly. They think "honor" means killing your sister or daughter because she fell in love with someone you don't approve of, etc. … In many cases they are a primitive culture it appears to us in the West. For better or worse …