Three Kurds Murdered in Paris: Turkey-Kurd Conflict Heating Up?
Turkey is currently deeply concerned by the emergence of an enclave in northeast Syria which is dominated by the PYD, the franchise of the PKK among the Syrian Kurds. The Turks are doing their utmost to enfeeble and impoverish this new Kurdish autonomous area. Evidence has emerged of Turkish support for Islamist elements among the Syrian rebels — including the al-Qaeda linked Jabhat al-Nusra group — who have clashed with PYD fighters on the edges of the Kurdish enclave.
In addition, Ankara has made use of its flourishing relationship with Massoud Barzani — head of the more established autonomous Kurdish area in northern Iraq — to secure the closing of the borders between this area and the newly established Syrian Kurdish autonomous zone.
Barzani needs Ankara’s support in his face-off with the government of Nouri al-Maliki in Baghdad. Against this background, he is evidently unable to refuse Ankara’s request regarding the border, though this means mid-winter hardship for Kurdish residents of northeast Syria.
So there are now Kurdish autonomous zones in both Syria and Iraq, stretching along a massive border with Turkey. The Syrian zone is controlled by elements close to the anti-Turkish insurgents of the PKK, and in the Iraqi zone, the PKK also operates from the border area with the tacit acceptance of Barzani.
Ankara has every incentive to try to neutralize the problem.
Diplomacy and political processes form part of its effort to do so. But since Ankara is unlikely to offer anything more substantial than an amnesty for PKK members in return for their disarmament, greater powers for local authorities, and a liberalization in policy toward education in the Kurdish language, Kurdish ambitions can probably not be contained within this framework.
Erdogan wants to commence a political process vis a vis the Kurds before the issue transcends boundaries which he can control. Ankara’s overtures are an indication of how far the Kurds have come, and how much the region is changing.
The murders in Paris may well also be a harbinger of things to come, as powerful regional forces move to disrupt and stall Kurdish gains by making use of familiar, brutal means.
Kurds murdered in Paris…cinematographer Theo vanGogh slaughtered in Amsterdam….Catholics savaged in the Philippines…Ahmadiyya brutalized in Indonesia…infidels and Hindus blown up in Bali (twice)…rape epidemic in Sydney… journalist Daniel Pearl decapitated…Buddhists in Thailand routinely assassinated…Hindus and Sikhs ravaged in India…religious apartheid in the Maldives…Jews attacked in Mumbai/Toronto/Seattle/Caracas//Buenos Aires…gays, women, Zoroastrians, Christians & apostates subjugated in Iran…Chaldeans persecuted in Iraq…civilized humanity savaged in Afghanistan…
Jews threatened with extinction in Israel…Copts ravaged in Egypt…embassies attacked in Libya/Kenya/Tanzania…animists and Christians slaughtered in Sudan/Somalia/ Mali/Uganda…Christians mass murdered in Nigeria…train commuters blown up in Spain…tube commuters blown up in London…soldiers assassinated on a bus in Frankfurt…airport blown up in Scotland…Jews slaughtered in Munich Olympics…office workers blown up in New York (twice)…pedestrians in Times Square targeted…defense workers in Washington killed…recruiters in Little Rock gunned down…soldiers at Ft. Hood assassinated by a traitor…
All of these attacks have one thing in common….ISLAM….Muhammad’s sociopathic ideology of devolutionary hatred and violence.
By any objective standard this would be classified as a world war…in fact and truth that is what it is. But this isn’t a numerical world war like World War 1 or World War 2…no…this is THE ISLAMIC WORLD WAR.
THE ISLAMIC WORLD WAR….inspired by Allah, mandated by the anti-Christ Muhammed, commanded in the Koran…an existential conflict against all non-Islamic peoples and civilizations in very corner of the globe…Islamic intolerance, violence, terror and subjugation wherever the followers of Islam live…not for the advancement of human dignity and individual liberty but to force submission of the entire world to the anti-god Allah.
History shows that Islam is savage and relentless, and is only stopped when it is stopped. We must stop it.
THE ISLAMIC WORLD WAR – it’s real.
~ The Infidel Alliance
Our political an military leaders are lying to us….It’s not ‘The War on Terror.’
It’s an ideological war waged with guerrilla tactics on a global scale.
Our enemy is Islam.
The war is with Mecca.
It is THE ISLAMIC WORLD WAR.
Islamo delende est…..or we lose….
~ The Infidel Alliance
You forget the French convert to Islam with Al Qeada ties who shot up a Jewish school in France. Of course, “Islam had nothing to do with it” declared Sarkozi.
Crap, I missed it. I was wrong, you did cover it.
Why the surprise? All conflicts have an ending. All conflicts are based on different political goals. In today’s world, violence as a means of conflict resolution is not seen as legitimate in the civilized world. Moreover, using military force to impose one’s will on the other are mostly self defeating when one of the parties involved is a nonstate actor: It provides political legitimacy to the use of violence by the nonstate combatant. Turkey’s conflict with PKK is complex. Internally, PKK has evolved into a marxist leninist party representing the kurdish poor. Rich kurds vote for AKP. Thus, for domestic legitimacy PKK can no longer count on violent resistance. Poor kurds want what rich kurds have. Politics is the only means of achieving that. Externally, PKK represents tougher challenge for turkish governments. Externally, PKK is part of a kurdish national movement which aspires for international recognition of kurdish rights. Kurdish national movement is not uniform: it is riddled with linguistic, tribal and economic rivalries. Kurds of Syria speak mostly the same dialect as those in Turkey and western iraqi Kurdistan. Syrian kurds are not ideologically or economically a force in kurdish movement. Some ally with PKK, some with KRG and some with Baath. Bulk of PKK’s core cadre are old socialist turkish kurds. PKK’s guerilla force however are mostly from Syria, Iran and Iraq and europe. PKK thanks first and foremost to the US and then Iraqi kurds for the safe haven they provided. But, that is changing. The US has left Iraq so it does not need PKK to pester Iran, Turkey and Syria. When US left Iraqi kurds have rediscovered that they need turkey for access and protection. Again, that makes PKK presence in KRG area a difficult proposition. These days PKK is externally isolated. They opt for Erdogan+Barzani route to subsuming into BDP or look for a new patron. In the old days, Iran and Syria used to give them refuge and paid for it. These days there does not seem to be any takers for PKK. We’ll see.
So much for strict gun control laws in France. Had these women been better protected (either by being armed or by being with guards that were armed), maybe they would be alive today. If this does represent a new crime wave in France, they may want to re-think their objections to guns. But I doubt that will happen. This is not the first example of political assasinations being caused by Muslims or radical Islamists. The Iranians, especially, are famous for doing this in France. Well, I guess the French don’t mind seeing criminals killing people, rather than having their own citizens defend themselves. Pay attention, America. This is where we are headed.