Turkish Bombings on Kurdish Rebels

Turkish warplanes and helicopter gunships have been Kurdish separatist positions in Turkey along the Iraqi-Turkish border, aimed continuing diplomatic efforts to avert a major cross-border incursion by Turkish military forces. Reports say that there has been reported aerial strikes have been going on since Sunday with several F-16 warplanes loaded with bombs taking off from an airbase in a southeastern city. Turkish government has been receiving public pressure to authorize a strike against Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) fighters accused of mounting attacks against Turkish forces and civilians. A Kurdish television station broadcasted the footage of the capture of eight troops by the PKK in the attack that killed 12 on Sunday. Turkish officials did report that eight soldiers were missing, but not confirmed hostages. The Turkish government is pledging to do its best in order to limit the PKK and its terrorist activities that are a threat to Iraq. The government offered a cease-fire but it was rejected because a cease-fire was something only to be agreed upon between two countries or militaries, and not with a terrorist organization. The U.S. fears that the Turkish strikes against the PKK could destabilize the supply lines to the 160,000 troops in Iraq. The U.S. is launching a major diplomatic push to persuade Iraq to move against the PKK and to keep Turkey from launching an attack.

The U.S. only seems to be concerned with one thing, and one thing alone, the success of its own operations against certain terrorist organizations and not with terrorist organizations outside of the war we are fighting. I believe the war is called The War on Terrorism, not The War of Terrorism of Certain Organizations. Instead of the U.S. pushing Iraq to move against the PKK why don’t we aid in the move against them to end that effort so maybe we could get extra help when we need it. If other countries see we only want to benefit for ourselves, we are going to start losing support from all the other countries.

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