Bridget
2008-03-16 15:21:21
Rich, Turkey isn’t exactly a comparable example. For decades, the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), a Marxist-Leninist rebel group intent on taking part of Turkey for its own, has waged a violent campaign including thousands of assassinations, bombings, and, as Amnesty reported in 1997, killing 124 schoolteachers in Turkish villages. Fittingly, the PKK is regarded as a terrorist group by the U.S. and EU. The PKK is also not representative of the vast majority of Iraq’s Kurds, who a) prefer democracy to the hammer and sickle, and b) disapprove of the PKK’s violent tactics.
