Turkey to get tough with Kurds

[bemildred]

The Turkish prime minister has signalled that his government is planning a tough response to the mounting violence by Kurdish fighters in the southeast of the country.

In a televised speech on Sunday, Recep Tayyip Erdogan said: "We have so far tried to handle this issue with patience... to resolve this problem with a democratic approach... these are not acts that one can put up with."

The response came after a week in which 13 members of the Turkish security forces were killed by Kurdish fighters.

The latest clash took place overnight on Saturday in the Siirt province when seven soldiers and one member of the village guard, a government-paid Kurdish group supporting the Turkish army, were killed by fighters thought to belong to the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK).

al Jazeera

[AnOhioan]

1. Perfect time for Turkey to act....while the world is.....

preoccupied with the Israel/Lebanon conflict.

[bemildred]

5. Probably won't be that last to take advantage of this "opportunity" either

:nuke::nuke::nuke:

[BillZBubb]

2. When the Turks got into Iraq to get the Kurdish "terrorists"

Will Busholini and Condoliar just say "Turkey has a right to defend itself"?

[saigon68]

16. INTERESTING ?

[AX10]

3. Turkey has a history of attacking the kurds.

The kurdish genocide is never dicussed. I say to Turkey, DROP DEAD! :argh:

[AnOhioan]

6. Or the Armenian genocide either n/t

[Jeroen]

4. Let me guess: terrorists?

[HysteryDiagnosis]

7. What a bunch of turkeys..... ignoring the soverignity of a

neighboring nation.... look what they've done to your song george, look what they've done to your song...

[thepurpose]

9. Bastards!!! Just destroyed his song. Oh well just blame it on Clinton

all better.

[Monkeyman]

8. Hastert for some reason was reported to of stop a bill

That would of protected the Kurds

[CHIMO]

10. Turkey to get tough with Kurds

The Turkish prime minister has signalled that his government is planning a tough response to the mounting violence by Kurdish fighters in the southeast of the country.

In a televised speech on Sunday, Recep Tayyip Erdogan said: "We have so far tried to handle this issue with patience... to resolve this problem with a democratic approach... these are not acts that one can put up with."

The response came after a week in which 13 members of the Turkish security forces were killed by Kurdish fighters.

The latest clash took place overnight on Saturday in the Siirt province when seven soldiers and one member of the village guard, a government-paid Kurdish group supporting the Turkish army, were killed by fighters thought to belong to the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK).

http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/A279034F-787D-4151-835B-407B2FD6629E.htm

[dysfunctional press]

11. apparently, ww3 isn't catching on as fast as some might like...

and if there's no apocolyptic war in the middle east- how will jebus know when/where to find us?

[sam sarrha]

14. thats DubyaDubya3 .....

[sam sarrha]

15. getting tough while perpetrating a Genocide ... just genocide faster,??

[WCGreen]

12. In the chaos that is the middle east....

Why would Turkey not rise up to squelch a Kurd uprising..

This, my Friends, has wider implications...

Remember there are large, relatively autonomous Kurdish populations in both Iran and Iraq...

Could the Kurds get in the way of peace in the ME by striking now to form their own republic...

[nealmhughes]

13. That is every country's nightmare that has a Kurdish population!

An independent Kurdistan cannot be tolerated by Ankara, Damascus, Baghdad or Teheran. Why? Well, because they're Kurds!

There were historically Muslim, Jewish and Christian Kurds all throughout Kurdistan. Most of the Jews have left for Israel now and many of the Christians. A large number of Kurds are expressing an interest in Zoroaster's teachings as he was from the area. Saladin was a Kurd, not an Arab, although he commanded a Muslim army against the Crusaders in Jerusalem.

Evidently, Kurdistand and Kashmir/Jammu can't be left alone to have their own nation, but are always part of someone else's state(s)...

Then one gets militant groups like the Kurdish Workeers and various Kashmiri terrorist groups as a result of being minoritized in lands that have "always" been theirs.

Would an independent Kurdistan and Kashmir/Jammu really be that hard for Turkey, Iran, Iraq, Syria and India and Pakistan to swallow?

It's just lines on maps, folks...until the bombs and bullets start to fly.

[Karenina]

20. A young woman in my German course

announced, when it was her turn to introduce herself, that she was from KURDISTAN in a voice that compelled me to ask her many questions after class... :wow:

[Copperred]

17. Vive la Kurdistan....

The Kurds rightfully deserve their state.

[IronLionZion]

18. Let's all join the party, Mexico is looking tempting...

With all their illegal activities, it's time to respond proportionally with bombs and missiles.

:sarcasm:

[McCamy Taylor]

19. Opportunists. US is giving everyone a free pass to murder kids.