Today I read a disturbing news report - Turkey has bombed 85 targets inside the sovereign state of Iraq where they claim Kurdish rebels of the Kurdish Worker's Party (PKK) were stationed. The 'rebels' from this socialist group have been committing terrorist acts across Turkey in order to fight for their independence and the recreation of their previous state, Kurdistan. The Kurdish people are currently living in a state of diaspora all around the Middle-East, especially in Turkey and Iraq. The Turkish government is quite well-known for brutally suppressing Kurdish national identity amongst members of the Kurdish nation residing in Turkey. But that's not really what I'm after here. I would like to point out that Mr. Saddam Hussein, former President of Iraq, was hanged for persecution of Kurds and (allegedly) killing a few of them. Now if this is true, why is Turkey, an important NATO member and key Western ally in the Middle-East, not being treated the same way Iraq was treated? We know for a fact they are repressing and killing civilians, and we know they have WMD's - they even have access to nuclear weapons for God's sake! We also know Turks are capable of mass murder and genocide (Armenia and Greece in the early 20th Century).
I am hoping someone will have the courage to condemn these bombings, but this is highly unlikely because the PKK has been officially recognized as a terrorist group equivalent to the likes of al-Qaeda. This incident will pass into the realm of history and no one will give it another thought. But what we can really see here is the effect of nationalism and strict statism. This whole problem could be solved if only the rigid and cruel states would allow secession to take place. And the US should really think about their stance here. The United States were founded through secession and facilitated through 'terrorist' means of George Washington's guerilla army.
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