The New York Times is derelict in so much today.
Here is one front the Times is silent on:
"Turkey keeps options open in dealing with rebel Kurds" by David Rising/Associated Press October 28, 2007
ANKARA, Turkey - Turkey's top military commander promised yesterday to make Iraq-based Kurdish rebels "grieve with an intensity that they cannot imagine."
That has frightening implications!
What do you think he means, and should we ask an Armenian?
General Yasar Buyukanit, the military chief:
"We are determined to make those who cause this sadness grieve with an intensity that they cannot imagine."
That is a chilling statement given past Turkish history.
The bellicose comments were made amid an increasing nationalist fervor in Turkey. Thousands took to the streets of several Turkish cities, condemning the PKK and pushing for action. About 1,000 people chanted "down with the USA, down with the PKK" outside the US Embassy in Ankara and said they were ready to fight the Kurdish rebels.
Hundreds more people marched in Istanbul, while 1,500 more took to the streets of the predominantly Kurdish city of Sirnak, in southeastern Turkey near the Iraqi border.
Military helicopters shuttled more troops in to the mountains near Iraq, while patrols secured roads and checkpoints. In a show-of-force exercise about 20 miles from the border, near the village of Ikizce, a group of Turkish tanks fired 10 rounds into the mountains toward Iraq.
Elsewhere, Turkish forces shelled two Iraqi areas along the western portion of the 205-mile border, Iraqi border guard officer Colonel Hussein Tamr said."
Why would the Times want to keep that quiet, readers?
