and that is exactly the reason why Turkey and Turks have welcomed tons of Kurdish and Yezidi refugees in their country. not once, but twice when including the 1,5m Kurdish refugees fleeing from Saddam in the past as well.
The Kurds you are talking about are a relative very small number of molotov and stone throwing young pkk members or supporters out of a group of 16m Kurds or so. pkk doesnt represent the Kurds. you'd be suprised, but Turkish Kurds are very conservative religious while pkk is marxist communist, i can't imagine Turkish Kurds living under such an ideology. There are ~16m Kurds in Turkey, if they had it so bad, Turkey would have been splitted up long ago due a potential 16m strong pkk, that would have been a real uprising/civil war. Secondly, more importantly, pkk fights against Huda Par (Kurdish sunni hizbullah) in Turkey as well. In fact most deaths during the latest protests in Turkey are between pkk and huda par, which basically means Kurds killing Kurds, and both have a bloody history of being terrorists and fighting each other. no need to call such parties representatives of Kurds, that would be an insult to the majority of average Kurds who distances themselves from such organizations. My gripe is basically that foreigners think like 'pkk = Kurds, Kurds = pkk', which is dead wrong.
The problem is foreigner' doesn't know shıt about Turkey but they act like know it all with their very limited knowledge. Like this indian guy.
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Okay, what ever you say chief.
Read it commander:-
Turkey's Erdogan May Be Changing His Attitude Toward Jihadists
Yes, I don't know about Turkey as I have never been there and my knowledge is documents spread across internet and Turkish friends here in Canada. If you say that all of these documents are propaganda and those people are unaware then I will agree on that but Turkish-Kurdish Conflict will remain fact.. isn't it?
how can it be a Turkish-Kurdish conflict when countless Turkish Kurdish soldiers/volunteering local village guards have fallen against pkk as well? When local Kurdish people were treated bad by pkk for not providing help to them or when about 50% of the Kurdish votes in the south east go to Turkish parties instead of hdp/bdp (pkk's political wings). if you would read more, you would understand the case better. US invaded several muslim countries and fights al qaeda, taliban, isis etc., yet the western media never claims that the US is waging war on muslims, so why do they then generalize and make it appear as if Turkey is against all Kurds in its war on strictly only the pkk? it's all about misleading foreign people and make them increase sympathy towards pkk's cause while pkk is ironically on the terror list of the west. this is called hypocrisy. The times i had to correct foreigners on this issue speaks volumes about how successful the western media is.
If you equate banning narcotics/drugs with banning movie theaters and female drivers, we have nothing to discuss.
