personally their vision of some vast empire in the middle east including much of Turkey and parts of Iran and Iraq is a bit grand and the blood lust they have is enormous. The are listed as terrorists:
http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/world/para/pkk.htm
But the media is painting a picture of a bunch of really nice guys just trying to farm and getting bombed:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070901/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq_tense_border
As always I am keen to learn your opinion especially if supported by some solid thinking.
2007-09-01 01:25:26 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
Dude, I am going to give you the benefit of the doubt and assume you are truly interested in learning something.
Those two organization you posted don't represent the Kurds at all. In fact, IIRC, those two both more or less hide out in the mountains and away from the normal Kurds. As someone else pointed out, those 2 are like the Kurdish equivalent of a KKK.
In any case, I served alongside the Kurds in 2004. They are great people and America's greatest ally over there. When we visited Dahuk we didnt need to wear our body armor or carry our rifles (just had side arms just in case). The people in Dahuk literally fell over themselves to hug us.
I can't say enough good things about Kurds. I wish you could see it for yourself.
2007-09-01 03:10:55 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
Seems you anti every thing so when do you bring your head out of the sand.
Or do you support the Turkish Government who committed Genocide on 1.5 million Christan Armenians as well as the Greeks and others in the Balkans.
The Kurds where a pat of this Genocide and they have been fighting the Turks ,Iran and Arabs trying to live with their Now large influx of Armenian blood in them as both the Turks and Kurds took young girls and enslaved them and so on.
The part of Turkey is Armenian not Turkey's or the Kurds. But the Kurds have helped us out where Turkey did not and Iran is our enemy.
And as a Turk saying goes kiss your enemy's feet till you can cut his throat. Keep them all close and take them all out. More war and less cowards here.
2007-09-01 01:35:59 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 6⤊ 0⤋
Kurds are good people, I know some here in the DC area.....their ancestral homeland has been split by an international border, same as the Palestinians, and they aren't happy about it.
Traditions and cultures in the Middle East span thousands of years, and the events of one century don't dictate any kind of permanent political structure.
2007-09-01 01:42:13 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 7⤊ 0⤋
The Kurds are screwed. No on likes them and no one wants them sitting on the oil fields of northern Iraq. The only thing that might temporarily unite the Shi’a and Sunni is joining together to get rid of the Kurds. Turkey will never allow anything resembling a Kurdish state on its border and will not hesitate to attack. Syria has a ‘Kurdish’ problem that it would like to see ‘go away’. And, if you have noticed, the violence in Iraq has already spread to the Kurdish area.
2007-09-01 01:40:36 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 2⤋
The Kurds were smart enough to ally with the US during the Iraq war. Because of this they are under US protection and bombing them would be an act of suicide.
2007-09-01 01:39:03 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 6⤊ 1⤋
Er, no the Kurdistan Worker's party are listed as terrorists. KURDS are not. Kurds are normal people. Are all americans terrorists because SOME americans are terrorists (KKK etc)
Personally I think genocide and murder of thousands of people based on their race is rather... heavy handed?
No wait - better phrase - completely and utterly unjustifiable, wrong, barbaric and dispicable. There we go.
2007-09-01 01:35:25 · answer #6 · answered by Mordent 7 · 7⤊ 0⤋
No we should continue giving them weapons so they can invade Turkey.
The Turks are cruel people and hate the Kurds because they speak the truth.
2007-09-01 01:46:25 · answer #7 · answered by man of ape 6 · 5⤊ 0⤋
Would you be interested in buying a Bridge in Brooklyn.
It's Kurd-free.
2007-09-01 01:30:42 · answer #8 · answered by Thomas Paine 5 · 7⤊ 1⤋
In the first Gulf War we were told that we were there to help stop Saddam's genocidal acts against the Kurds, so that's what I've believed.
2007-09-01 01:31:00 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 4⤋
It would be nice if you actually took the time to read your own linked sites.
The Kurds are possibly the only sane Iraqis.
2007-09-01 01:42:20 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 3⤋