Does anyone know the history of the PKK?
All I know are the very basics. They are a Kurdish terrorist group in Turkey, conidered communist. When Saddam was in power he supported them through money. Now Turkey is bombing Kurdish Iraq because of their activities.
Does anyone know a longer history?
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Re: The PKK
Source of this, please? Considering that Saddam has ordered the ethnic cleansing of Kurds, including the use of chemical weapons, I strongly doubt he'd support the PKK.Sam Or I wrote:When Saddam was in power he supported them through money.
Please do not make Americans fight giant monsters.
Those gun nuts do not understand the meaning of "overkill," and will simply use weapon after weapon of mass destruction (WMD) until the monster is dead, or until they run out of weapons.
They have more WMD than there are monsters for us to fight. (More insanity here.)
Those gun nuts do not understand the meaning of "overkill," and will simply use weapon after weapon of mass destruction (WMD) until the monster is dead, or until they run out of weapons.
They have more WMD than there are monsters for us to fight. (More insanity here.)
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Re: The PKK
I think it was due to the fact that they were primarily operational in Turkey and Iran, both of whom Saddam enjoyed tweaking the tails of.Sidewinder wrote:Source of this, please? Considering that Saddam has ordered the ethnic cleansing of Kurds, including the use of chemical weapons, I strongly doubt he'd support the PKK.Sam Or I wrote:When Saddam was in power he supported them through money.
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Way back when when people were arguing that Saddam did not support terrorism, which is untrue, he supported terrorism, he did not support Al Qeada. (I found it amusing how most Democrats said that he did not support Al Qeada, which is true, while most republicans said he supported terrorism, which is also true. The spin of politics.) The PKK's name popped up several times as one of the groups he supported.Sidewinder wrote:Source of this, please? Considering that Saddam has ordered the ethnic cleansing of Kurds, including the use of chemical weapons, I strongly doubt he'd support the PKK.Sam Or I wrote:When Saddam was in power he supported them through money.
http://www.turkishdailynews.com.tr/arti ... wsid=88393
http://counterterrorismblog.org/2006/12 ... _state.php
http://www.iacsp.com/bgin2001.html
http://www.globalsecurity.org/wmd/libra ... 30899.html (This one has just a brief blurb about Saddam setting up PKK camps near Mosul)
Saddam loved playing all sides against each other diplomatically. He did it most of his career with the U.S. and USSR during the cold war. It should not surprise anyone that he can play different factions of the Kurds to his own ends.