CNN airs pro PKK news story

[Peris]

the first video speaks itself about the US change of policy towards PKK



http://infognomonpolitics.blogspot.com/2008/10/cnn.html




http://edition.cnn.com/video/#/video/world/2008/10/05/damon.pkk.camps.cnn?iref=videosearch




http://edition.cnn.com/video/#/video/world/2008/10/06/damon.lok.pkk.camps.cnn?iref=videosearch

[kvk1]

What an absolute load of crap.

This says it best:

It is sad how this CNN article casts a favorable view of the PKK, only days after one of the PKK's most brutal attacks on Turkish security forces. The PKK is a terrorist organization because it practices acts of terror. It kills and maims Turkish citizens of both Kurdish and Turkish heritage, who do not agree with its social nationalist ideologies and practices. The PKK is the problem child of the Kurds, as it struggles for legitimacy in competition with the Kurdish PUK and KDP groups in Iraq.

The heroin of the CNN article, Rengin, says she joined the PKK on her own free will. But, the common practice of the PKK is to force Kurdish youth to join the terror campaign. Families who do not surrender their children to the PKK, are slaughtered. Eventually, the children who are abducted into the PKK, are brainwashed and learn to hate Turkey and everything not Kurdish.

A female terrorist's aptitude for violence should not be equated with emancipation. And, in the deep Kurdish southeast, where girls are not even counted among the children of a family, where marriages are arranged, where polygamy is condoned, where a recent survey showed that most find wife beating acceptable, the poor women of the PKK are nothing more than slaves in a Kurdish microcosm called the PKK -- nationalist cover organization for one of the world's largest, dirtiest crime syndicates.

[Peris]

What an absolute load of crap.

This says it best:

It is sad how this CNN article casts a favorable view of the PKK, only days after one of the PKK's most brutal attacks on Turkish security forces. The PKK is a terrorist organization because it practices acts of terror. It kills and maims Turkish citizens of both Kurdish and Turkish heritage, who do not agree with its social nationalist ideologies and practices. The PKK is the problem child of the Kurds, as it struggles for legitimacy in competition with the Kurdish PUK and KDP groups in Iraq.

The heroin of the CNN article, Rengin, says she joined the PKK on her own free will. But, the common practice of the PKK is to force Kurdish youth to join the terror campaign. Families who do not surrender their children to the PKK, are slaughtered. Eventually, the children who are abducted into the PKK, are brainwashed and learn to hate Turkey and everything not Kurdish.

A female terrorist's aptitude for violence should not be equated with emancipation. And, in the deep Kurdish southeast, where girls are not even counted among the children of a family, where marriages are arranged, where polygamy is condoned, where a recent survey showed that most find wife beating acceptable, the poor women of the PKK are nothing more than slaves in a Kurdish microcosm called the PKK -- nationalist cover organization for one of the world's largest, dirtiest crime syndicates.





i would like to see the source of your post.

[kvk1]

i would like to see the source of your post.

Does it matter? It was a passage in an e-mail sent out by a DC based Turkish-American organization.

Do you think anything in the paragraph is factually incorrect?

If so I would love to hear it.

[Vorian]

What kvk1 mentioned has probably enough grains of truth, force conscription and children abductions are common trait in many guerilla armies. I wouldn't know about the women but they seem pretty liberated to me from all the articles I've read without discounting the possibility of propaganda.

However we should also accept that for a succesful guerilla warfare (which PKK is waginf since the 80's) you need

a) a safehaven outside the borders (Iraq)
b)local tolerance and/or support

That's my 2 cents

[derkrieger]

a) makes one's dependence on b) less necessary nowadays Vorian.
You are classy as always, I must add.