Israel Matzav

35 civilians killed in airstrike... Israel not involved... Who cares?

35 civilians were killed in an air strike on Wednesday night. No soldiers or terrorists were killed. But the world doesn't care. Israel had nothing to do with it.

The country that carried out the air strike was Turkey, and the victims were Kurds. For many years, the Kurds' army - the PKK - has been declared a terror organization by the US and the EU to keep Turkey's Muslim rulers happy. And Turkey feels free to do whatever it pleases to the Kurds (Hat Tip: Joshua I).

The outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) called today for an uprising after an air strike killed 35 villagers near the Iraqi border in what the ruling party admitted could have been a mistake.

As locals prepared to bury their dead, the admission from Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan's party did little to assuage their anger.

"Damn you, Erdogan ... One day you too will know our pain," shouted a group of protesters in Uludere, the main town in the region of the bombing.

And the call for a new "serhildan" (uprising) also served to ratchet up tensions further.

"We urge the people of Kurdistan... to react after this massacre and seek a settling of accounts through uprisings," senior PKK leader Bahoz Erdal said in a statement. "This massacre was no accident ... It was organized and planned.”

The PKK, which is listed as a terrorist organization by Turkey, the United States and the European Union, uses the term "uprising" for sweeping civil disobedience, as well as clashes with the police.

Turkey's military command said it carried out an air strike on suspected PKK militants after a spy drone spotted a group moving toward its sensitive southeastern border under cover of darkness late Dec. 28 in an area known to be used by militants.

The Kurds are indeed reacting. On Saturday, a Turkish government official was attacked by Kurds in a nearby village.

Let's go to the videotape.



But since Israel is not involved, no one cares. The same thing happened four months ago.

Labels: Turkish Kurds

posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 2:18 AM