Have you heard of the PKK? My guess most of my readers have not.
The PKK is a Kurdish version of a Stalinist like Communism whose purpose is to create a sovereign homeland for Kurds under the Stalinist Prototype State. PKK is a Kurdish acronym for the English translation Kurdistan’s Workers Party.
There is particular acrimony between the PKK and Turkey. This is a reason you might stumble on the interior of your newspaper (say like page 20 something) a story about Turkey taking military action inside the borders of Iraq in the Kurdistan area.
The fact is the PKK is a Communist terrorist organization that has committed atrocities in Turkey. That makes the PKK same as any other transnational Islamist terrorist group that uses terror to justify an end.
The PKK is not really popular among Kurdish groups in Iraq because of the terrorism, which occasionally is perpetrated on fellow Kurds that disagree with PKK plan to create a Communist Kurdistan State. And yet Kurds are not quick to turn on the PKK either.
The reason is Kurdish dislike for the Communist PKK is outweighed by Kurdish hatred of Turkey who done their own fair share horrible atrocities upon Kurdish people over the years stretching back to Ottoman Turkey days.
Michael Rubin provides a book review of two books about the PKK: Blood and Belief: The PKK and the Kurding Fight for Independence, by Aliza Marcus and Kurdish Identity: Human Rights and Political Status, edited by Charles G. MacDonald and Carole A. O'Leary.
The review may provide insight as to why Turkey has a stake in the politics of Iraq.
JRH
The PKK is a Kurdish version of a Stalinist like Communism whose purpose is to create a sovereign homeland for Kurds under the Stalinist Prototype State. PKK is a Kurdish acronym for the English translation Kurdistan’s Workers Party.
There is particular acrimony between the PKK and Turkey. This is a reason you might stumble on the interior of your newspaper (say like page 20 something) a story about Turkey taking military action inside the borders of Iraq in the Kurdistan area.
The fact is the PKK is a Communist terrorist organization that has committed atrocities in Turkey. That makes the PKK same as any other transnational Islamist terrorist group that uses terror to justify an end.
The PKK is not really popular among Kurdish groups in Iraq because of the terrorism, which occasionally is perpetrated on fellow Kurds that disagree with PKK plan to create a Communist Kurdistan State. And yet Kurds are not quick to turn on the PKK either.
The reason is Kurdish dislike for the Communist PKK is outweighed by Kurdish hatred of Turkey who done their own fair share horrible atrocities upon Kurdish people over the years stretching back to Ottoman Turkey days.
Michael Rubin provides a book review of two books about the PKK: Blood and Belief: The PKK and the Kurding Fight for Independence, by Aliza Marcus and Kurdish Identity: Human Rights and Political Status, edited by Charles G. MacDonald and Carole A. O'Leary.
The review may provide insight as to why Turkey has a stake in the politics of Iraq.
JRH
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