what's all about that pkk??

Answer 1

PKK is the Kurdish separatist group which is essentially fighting for the establishment of a Kurdistan. The ethnic Kurdish region of the area covers parts of Turkey, Northern Iraq and Northern Iran.

PKK has been around for decades mostly fighting the Turkish who have been brutally repressing the Kurd in Turkey. During the period between the first Gulf War and OIF, the Turks roamed freely into Northern Iraq to attack the PKK.

During OIF, the Kurds of Northern Iraq helped the US Special Forces open the second northern front and defeat Saddam Hussein. This stopped Turkish incursion into Northern Iraq and gave the PKK and even better safe-haven.

I could go on, but the story of the Kurds and the PKK would require writing essetially a book...

Answer 2

The two previous posts do cover what the PKK is about, but did not mention recent activities. The PKK, which is listed as a terrorist organization by the US State Department, has recently been conducting attacks on Turkish forces on Turkish soil. And Turkey also has reason to be annoyed by the US' recent condemnation of the Armenian genocide back during WWI, which was led by Democrats for the sake of party politics and to no benefit to US foreign policy (we need all the allies we can use).

So the Turks, who have good reason to believe that the PKK has safe haven in Iraq, had a resolution passed that allows their military to cross into Iraq to destroy PKK targets. Of course this upsets the powerful Kurdish politicians in Iraq who implicitly (and sometimes explicitly) support the PKK, and the US (despite the PKK being a terrorist organization on their books they have neglected that area until now) has tried all it could to keep the Turks out of Iraq, which seems to be working as long as the PKK doesn't provoke the Turks too much.

Answer 3

Its P. K. K. and the initials stand for the Kurdistan Worker's Party, (classed as a Terrorist Group) seeking to set up a homeland for the Kurds, in territory that spans the Turkish, Iraq, Iran Border areas.

The conflict is something along the lines of the problem in Northern Spain and Southern France where the Basque Separatist Terrorist want to have their own country.

Answer 4

Kurds in South-Eastern Turkey (North-Kurdistan) are treated as second class citizens. They are not allowed to give their children Kurdish names, they are not allowed to be thought the Kurdish language, they are forced to swear loyalty to the Turkish flag and call themselves 'Turkish' rather than 'Kurdish'. The Kurdish areas are extremely underdeveloped and kept poor. The Turkish government steals all the natural resources in South-Eastern Turkey (Kurdish inhabited areas), to develop the Turkish (touristic) areas. The Kurds do not benefit from this. 

Answer 5

Decode this lyrics " Say you say me"
"The young one" with blunders and slip-ups with human errors who were good grave diggers of failures and horrors of the past at loss and blurr on what the Liberation of Freedom for the good of mankind after world war two with the creation of peace on earth goodwill to men in making a mess with the loss of peace on earth out there.
Luke 9.60
Getting kick on the butts as casualty of the dead Mummy in not worshiping God.
Luke 6.39-40,41-45,46-49
What do you think?

Answer 6

they are a Kurdish Liberation group that the US has supplied, harbored and protected since the days of Saddam and the first Gulf War

now we have declared them a terrorist organization becuase they are no longer useful to us