Why european states don't pay as much attention to the PKK terrorism as they do to Al Quaeda, ETA, IRA?

Question

It seems that many countries don't take it seriously, and that's why french authorities apparently don't do anything about PKK supporters who live in Paris and France.

By the way, check this question of mine, and the answers, and please can you also send a mail to the Turkish Consulate in Paris?

http://fr.answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=Ah9M_khLN7NGWQokAXNSeOM4Agx.;_ylv=3?qid=20071223050314AATWre7

What's your opinion?

Answer 1

They don't care ? Are you kidding? They are the biggest supporters of those terrorist formations. Why wouldn't they pay attention.

@Frank, there's a huge difference between freedom fighters and baby killers. Maybe you can't see that from that distance but i can see as a person in the middle of these. And so i can define the borders between humanity and just being puppets of nations who cannot see future thus is lack of consideration with today and tomorrow because they are effected by their racist minds but still acting as being non-racist and open. How pitiful.

You wouldn't be speaking your language if Turks were so tolerant to minorities,because your people were under Ottoman rule for almost 500 years i believe. Look what English did to Indian,Australian,Pakistani locals. Or Spanish and Portuguese to South American. Did you ever wonder why they speak English or Spanish or Portuguese and Greek people speak Greek still.Or would it be too much to ask from you.

@Frank B.;

Ah yes those were unfortunate examples. How did i forget Montezuma was half Spanish and he was singing Spanish folk songs on Tenochtitlan streets.

Lands change hand,it is this way from the beginning of history. Yes Anatolia was Byzantine before Turks. But it was Trojan before that. Does it make Turks cruel and the Greeks as white as milk just because there's no Trojans walking on earth anymore and cannot claim their lands? I'm not saying Greeks should be greatfull or anything. Point is Turks were tolerant to other ethnic groups living in their borders before as they are now.

@Frank B.,

The point you people underestimate is, Kurds have and had the same rights as Turks living on this country. They are not only in North Iraq or east Turkey. My neighbours are Kurdish,living in Istanbul,next to me. They speak both Turkish and Kurdish among themselves.They have their culture,their rights,their language. But no country would allow any ethnic groups popping up once in a while and wanting freedom would they?
One other point you underestimate is Kurds are different than PKK. It's a terrorist organisation. Freedom fighters don't kill innocent civilians.

As for my Troy example. I was too scared that you almost told they were a Greek city state. Yes they had the similar culture,same religion.So what? They were the representatives of the East and Greeks were the west. The war between them was one of the first examples of west/east conflict. Kurds also have the same religion with Turks remember? That doesn't make them same.

Lastly, i don't want to pollute the question with anymore edits.If you want to talk about the subject any further,let us talk via email.

Answer 2

That's the thing isn't it. Who's the flavor of the month and does it effect us. I don't know many French people but from what I do know unless it directly effects them they generally don't care. Even Chirac said: " -their self centered mentality" when he was leaving office. Also the PKK is far away and not using France as a base to launch ops. Fianally, the groups you mentioned are killing other europeans the PKK are killing Turkish.

Answer 3

well, until the recent years, europea was already supporting the PKK. still, PKK has weapons made by european, russian and americans and they have TV channels in a few european countries which even does not approach to stop their activities and comes with the excuse of "independence of ideas". so when did the independence of ideas has been the right of "terrorists"? how much do these countries like that deaths of people in another country by bloody attacks of the terrorists?

Even Turkiye is against all terroristic organizations like ERA, IRA, Al Quaeda (which is already a threat to Turkiye, too) or Hesbullah, the rest of countries doesnt do anything about PKK and in fact, they help these terrorist (mostly) on purpose.

so what do u suppose, my friend? this is further than not paying attention but helping these terrorists!

Answer 4

French people knows something but not much than Paris Hilton about pkk. .


We have no problem with Kurdish people. More than 1000 years we are living together and we are only killing the terrorists.

Answer 5

In a nutshell, because the PKK doesn't attack the western world as much as the others do!

Answer 6

Because their asses are not in danger -yet-. Why is there no popular anti-war stance in America like the days of the Vietnam war? Because Iraq is somewhere there and less people dying because of the advanced technology available today.

Also world contains abundant supplies of idiots, who are too lazy to take their big asses off their comfortable couch to go and make a research instead of believing what BBC tells them. It's never a big issue on European news when some PKK terrorist bombs public places in Turkey but they hypocritically exaggerate everything done by our part.

Answer 7

In my opinion,european states' party is not us.So their eyes are hypermetropic to pkk.

Answer 8

The PKK only attack Turkey and Turkey is not in the EU, that's why they don't care! The same could be said about the Tamil Tigers...who intervenes there? Sad, isn't it!

Answer 9

Because PKK only attacks Turkey (for now). All countries have their own problems, you know.

Answer 10

Fatih arkadaş,
do you remember ASALA-armenian terrorist organisation in 1970 's?
When the innocent peoples are murdered by ASALA at the Orly airplane (some of them are France civilisations) in France ,all the europeen country stoped their supporting to this terrorist organisation.This is EUROPEEN mentality!

Answer 11

Because they are hypocrites, they only care about themselves. Because PKK is not killing them, their babies, their children, their fathers ,their mothers.
Sarkozy is with Carla Bruni in Egypt now on holiday he doesn't care about how many people in danger because of PKK.