Turks-Koerdisch conflict

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Op zondag 20 juni 2010 17:21 schreef Hellas2009 het volgende:

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De hypocrisie van jouw held kent geen grenzen

Erdogan Vows: Death to the Kurds!

Turkey’s Prime Minister, who only two weeks ago reminded Israel of the commandment “Thou shalt not murder,” promised to fight the Kurdish underground “to the finish.” Erdogan condemned the Kurdish rebels’ “cowardly attack” that killed nine Turkish soldiers.

Turkey’s Prime Minister apparently forgot his own famous speech he gave in response to the events on the Gaza flotilla in which he accused the Israeli government of breaking the commandment “Thou shalt not murder.” Yesterday (Saturday), after armed Kurds killed 11 Turkish soldiers, Regep Tayyep Erdogan vowed to “wipe out” the Kurdish underground to utter destruction.

That last few months have seen an escalation in the armed struggle between the Turkish army and the underground Kurdish activists in northern Iraq. This weekend, an army official announced that more than a 100 armed Kurds have been killed in Iraq in targeted air strikes last month, including 43 soldiers.

The response was not late in coming: Yesterday, members of the Kurdish underground attacked a Turkish military outpost on the Iraqi border and killed 9 soldiers with an explosive device. An air force attack helicopter that was called to the area killed twelve members of the team. Later, two additional soldiers were killed after they stepped on a mine when chasing after the rebels.

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