It's the GENOCIDAL WAY! This first report o.k.
"Turkish forces target Kurdish rebels in northern Iraq; Inflict heavy casualties, military says" by Selcuk Gokoluk/Reuters December 2, 2007
ANKARA, Turkey - The Turkish military said it inflicted heavy casualties on Kurdish rebels in northern Iraq yesterday in an "intense intervention" involving helicopters, artillery, and a cross-border raid by special forces.
A military official said about 100 ground forces crossed into Iraqi territory to hit the Kurdistan Workers Party, or PKK, a day after Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan announced the Cabinet had given a green light to such operations.
The army also fired long-range artillery and sent up to six helicopters to bomb a camp used by the PKK about 12 miles inside Iraq, the official said. The operation was launched after troops spotted a group of about 60 guerrillas there.
"The terrorist group had suffered heavy casualties," the army said on its website. It gave no estimate on the number of dead or wounded.
Turkey has amassed up to 100,000 troops near the mountainous border, backed up by tanks, artillery, and aircraft. Yesterday's strike did not appear to be the long-awaited major operation by NATO member Turkey to destroy rebel bases.
Speaking from Sulaimaniya, in northern Iraq, a PKK official who asked not to be named denied that there had been an attack and said the group had suffered no casualties. There are about 3,000 PKK rebels operating in the region.
The Turkish military official said the special forces returned to Turkish territory after the mission. "The operations will continue depending on the intelligence provided," the army said in a later statement.
That what we giving them!
It said the missions will "solely target the PKK terror organization and they are not against the people living in northern Iraq, or the local groups, as long as they do not make any hostile act against Turkish armed forces."
A spokesman for Iraqi Kurdish leader Massoud Barzani said the Kurdish leadership was not aware of the incursion by Turkish troops into the semiautonomous Kurdistan region of northern Iraq. The US military also said it was unaware of the incursion.
Do you believe those liars, readers?
"This is a limited operation condoned by the international community. I don't expect to see an escalation of violence," said columnist Semih Idiz of the Milliyet newspaper in Turkey.
The U.S. said it didn't know!!
Ankara has made many threats of military action but, under heavy US pressure, has so far shown restraint. Washington fears a large-scale operation could cause havoc in the most stable part of Iraq and possibly the wider region.
Yeah, but it was o.k. for us to go in and fracture the region!
Now they are killing the Kurds, who got screwed way back in 1918-19!
Didn't anybody think to ask them before arbitrarily carving up control borders for western colonial interests?
And it's continued throughout!
Betrayed them in 1975, turned them into desperate refugees in 1991 and NOW THIS!!!
And we are using them as "terrorists" against the Iranians!
How many triple-crosses can a U.S. government make?
Erdogan said before the army statement was issued that he hoped to get the most effective result from an operation. "Our armed forces were authorized as of Nov. 28. We will watch and follow the process after this," he said.
Turkey's Parliament approved a resolution Oct. 17 giving the government the legal basis to order cross-border military operations if and when it deemed them necessary.
The resolution, approved by an overwhelming majority of lawmakers, followed a series of deadly PKK attacks on Turkish security forces that fanned an angry wave of nationalism across Turkey, a NATO member that also wants to join the European Union.
That sounds like a CUI BONO government black-op job, folks!
Because that's what "TERRORISM" IS!! CUI BONO, readers?
It is valid for one year, and the Cabinet decision last week effectively frees the generals to act as they see necessary without seeking further political approval.
Which means the Kurds will be walking on eggshells for the next year!
Gonna be much, much sooner, judging from this action by the Turks!
Erdogan held emergency talks with President Bush on Nov. 5 in the White House, obtaining pledges of closer cooperation from him, including more intelligence sharing against a group that Washington also brands as terrorist.
Oh, REALLY!!!! So if we are using Kurds to attack Iran, blah, blah,. blah,.... I get tired of the U.S. stirring shit up and dealing out murder!
I'm tired of this charade of "terrorism" being used to kill indigenous populations for no good reason!
PKK fighters in northern Iraq have launched several attacks on security and civilian targets in Turkey in recent months, Turkish officials said. A few thousand PKK rebels are also believed to be inside Turkey.
The border region saw fierce fighting in early November in which three soldiers and 15 militants were killed. Twelve soldiers were killed in October, greatly increasing pressure on Turkey to send troops into northern Iraq.
Kurdish authorities in northern Iraq have taken steps to stop supplies reaching the PKK rebels in the mountains.
Ankara blames PKK for the deaths of nearly 40,000 people since the group began its armed separatist insurgency in 1984. The EU and the United States list the PKK as a terrorist organization.
Yeah, and they are MOSTLY DEAD KURDS!!!!
So explain that one, you genocidal bastards in Turkey!!!!
First witness called: Armenians!!!
Oh, yeah, Holocaust Deniers those Turks!!!!
How come that doesn't get you locked up like the questioning of the Jewish Holohoax?
Starting to get the picture of WHO REALLY RUNS THINGS, readers?
And the Turks just happen to be a very close ally of Israel! Huh!
And what is with the U.S.?
Our FRIENDS are "TERRORISTS?"
Ummmm, Georgie:
"Either you are with us, or you are with the terrorists. From this day forward, any nation that continues to harbor or support terrorism will be regarded by the United States as a hostile regime." -- George W. Bush, September 20, 2001
Better remove yourself, you mass-murdering bastard!
The Kurds are a non-Arab, mainly Sunni Muslim people living the mountainous area straddling the borders of Armenia, Iraq, Iran, Syria, and Turkey. They speak a language related to Persian.
Yeah, and it's like that for the reasons I said above!
Didn't bother taking the Kurds into consideration when the western imperialists carved up the region and installed their own puppets!
How little things have changed in nearly 100 years -- and how much worse they are!
For most of their history they have been subjugated. In modern times Iran, Iraq, and Turkey have resisted an independent Kurdish state and the Western powers have seen little reason to help establish one.
Case closed, reader!
But the Kurdish region of northern Iraq won autonomy from Saddam Hussein with US help in 1991, and has benefited from more than a decade of economic development. There has been some violence but it has not approached the levels seen in Baghdad.
The Kurdistan Workers Party, formed in 1978, took up arms against Turkey in 1984 with the aim of creating an ethnic homeland in the southeast. Since then nearly 40,000 people have been killed in the conflict.
Yeah, that's the SECOND TIME they said that -- as if it is the Kurds who are the ones responsible!!!!!
What disgusting "journalism!"
Those are KURDS being WIPED OUT by the GENOCIDAL REGIME of TURKEY!!!!
Come on, hey!!!! What is WRONG with this world?!
Why did Kurds have to be pit on throughout history?
And how come their story isn't shoved in our face every day like the alleged NaZionist suffering?
PKK leader Abdullah Ocalan was captured in 1999, tried and sentenced to death. That was reduced to life imprisonment in October 2002 after Turkey abolished the death penalty.
Fighting eased after Ocalan's capture, leading to a cease-fire and the withdrawal of rebel fighters from Turkey. Ocalan put new emphasis on seeking Kurdish rights through political, rather than armed struggle."
Yeah, but things like peaceful political change don't mean much to the Turks.
They don't want that!
Otherwise they would accept the cease-fire the Kurds offered!
See how AmeriKa's MSM LIES, readers?
Here is what the Times gives you:
"Turkey Says It Attacked Kurdish Fighters in Iraq" by SABRINA TAVERNISE and STEPHEN FARRELL
ISTANBUL, Dec. 1 — The Turkish military said Saturday that it had inflicted “significant losses” on a group of Kurdish guerrillas in Iraq, though it offered no evidence for its claim.
In a terse, vague statement on its Web site, the military said that it had identified a group of 50 to 60 fighters just across the border in Iraq, and that it had carried out “an intensive operation” against them.
Reuters cited an unidentified Turkish military official as saying that about 100 Turkish special forces had entered northern Iraq, struck the fighters and returned. The official military statement, however, gave no indication that troops had crossed the border. Iraqi officials denied that any incursion had taken place.
A Turkish member of Parliament from the governing Justice and Development Party indicated that the attack was part of a series of artillery strikes against rebel positions along the border that have been going on for months, and not the large-scale offensive that the American and Iraqi governments had feared.
Yeah, not the offensive we thought, just the offensive that became an ongoing slaughter!
This kind of "reporting" IS offensive and amazing!
“It’s not an invasion or a war in northern Iraq,” said the member of Parliament, who requested anonymity because he was not authorized to speak publicly about the developments. “This is just a limited operation for the moment.”
Good old lying, murdering Turks!
Turkey has been threatening to send its military into northern Iraq to attack fighters from the group, the Kurdistan Workers’ Party, or P.K.K., which is based in both countries. The group has fought the Turkish military for decades over demands for an autonomous Kurdish region there.
But a major incursion is viewed as unlikely, in part because it would require Turkey, a NATO member, to rebuff the United States, a strong ally. The Turkish military said it would use “other means” in the future, if required.
That sure is cryptic!
The United States military in Baghdad said it had no “operational reports” of a Turkish incursion. Haval Zagros, a P.K.K. spokesman, denied that the Turks had entered Iraqi territory or fired at its positions. “There have been no clashes between the P.K.K. and the Turkish Army,” he said. “Today, none of our bases has been struck by Turkish forces.”
Mohammed Amidi, a spokesman for the Kurdish Democratic Party, one of the main parties in the Kurdish regional government, and Col. Hussein Rasheed, the commander of the Iraqi border protection forces in Dohuk Province, both denied news media reports that Turkish special forces had crossed the frontier.
The operation occurred a day after the Turkish cabinet granted final permission to the military to make a cross-border strike. The authorization was largely a formality, but a Turkish government official said it gave the final green light for a full-fledged operation into Iraq.
Despite indications that Saturday’s attack was no different than previous ones, the military characterized it as the first of a series of possible cross-border strikes, and said as much in its Web statement. “The first operation was carried out on Dec. 1, 2007, and the operations will continue depending on intelligence,” the military said."
So the war is on! May God watch over the Kurds!
Notice how the Times doesn't even mention the deaths?!
