Sunday, December 16, 2007

TURKEY AND US BOMB KURDISH CIVILIANS

"America gave intelligence. But more importantly, America last night opened [the Iraqi] airspace to us. By opening the airspace, America gave its approval to this operation."
~ Yaşar Büyükanıt.



Two villagers walk through a rubble at the Qlatooka village near Iraq's border with Turkey on Sunday, Dec. 16, 2007. Turkish war planes bombed Kurdish rebel targets as far as 100 kilometers (60 miles) inside northern Iraq for three hours early Sunday, in the largest aerial attack against the outlawed separatist group in recent years. An Iraqi official said the planes attacked several villages, killing one woman. (AP Photo/Yahya Ahmed)




A villager looks through a rubble at the Qlatooka village near Iraq's border with Turkey on Sunday, Dec. 16, 2007. (AP Photo/Yahya Ahmed)


Villager walks through a rubble at the Qlatooka village near Iraq's border with Turkey on Sunday, Dec. 16, 2007. (AP Photo/Yahya Ahmed)


A villager carries a desk through a rubble at the Qlatooka village near Iraq's border with Turkey on Sunday, Dec. 16, 2007. (AP Photo/Yahya Ahmed)


Two villagers clean their house at the Qlatooka village near Iraq's border with Turkey on Sunday, Dec. 16, 2007. (AP Photo/Yahya Ahmed)


Iraqis inspect the damage following air strikes by Turkish warplanes in Qandil, northern Iraq, December 16. Turkey's bombardment of suspected PKK rebel rear-bases inside northern Iraq has drawn a furious response from the Iraqi government and villagers hit by the air strikes. (AFP/Shwan Mohamed)


Iraqis inspect the damage following air strikes by Turkish warplanes in Qandil, December 16. (AFP/Shwan Mohammed)


Turkish Foreign Minister Ali Babacan denied that civilian areas had been hit.

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

Grey Wolf murder in Sweden?

('We never massacred our minorities and we'll kill you if you say otherwise')

Political motive suspected in Örebro murder

Colleagues of the 40 year-old sociology lecturer murdered at Örebro University on Tuesday fear for their safety amid suspicions that the motive was political.

Fuat Deniz researched within the field of the Assyrian genocide in the Ottoman empire and other researchers working in the field have been threatened, according to David Gaunt at Södertörn University College. Gaunt has worked with Fuat Deniz and they held several lectures and seminars together.

"On several occasions at our seminars people would attend claiming to be journalists only to then walk around photographing delegates," Gaunt told Svenska Dagbladet.

It is reported that researchers have been harassed, received death threats and been labeled terrorists. Gaunt reports having been followed by security police on trips to Turkey and describes being subjected to a smear campaign by a Turkish newspaper.

"All those interested in Christian minorities in Turkey are considered a threat," said Gaunt.

Deniz was internationally renowned for his work with the Assyrian genocide in the Ottoman empire and was scheduled to speak at a conference on religious minorities in the Netherlands today.

Fuat Deniz was stabbed to death in a university building in Örebro on Tuesday. His killer remains at large.

Mizgîn said...

Anonymous, I saw something about this the other day . . . last week sometime, I think.

Well, I am not surprised and yeah, it certainly could be the work of Gray Wolf FREAKS. Speaking of which, it looks like more Gray Wolf FREAKS have attacked another Catholic priest, this time in Izmir.

Why can't someone just kill all the Gray Wolf FREAKS? It would make life so much better for so many people.

Anonymous said...

More on this:

Former head of the Assyrian Federation in Sweden, Simon Barmano, revealed in an interview today with Swedish paper Länstidningen that he received threats from Turkish officials.

The Assyrians in Sweden want to build a monument to the genocide (possibly just the Assyrian part, I'm not sure - there was a joint Armenian-Assyrian memorial dedicated in Wales earlier this year) and the Turks in Sweden plus the Turkish government have been threatening them.

The governors, from Mardin, Dyiarbakir, Giresun and one of Ankaras districts, told Barmano to stop the monument because it would "not serve any good purpose anyway". When Simon Barmano said that the monument is important and that the Turkey should acknowledge the genocide the Turkish governors changed their tone, telling Barmano to "stop highlighting the genocide or your people will get hurt".

"You have already hurt our people so much, in which more ways can you hurt us?" Barmano replied.


There will be a co-ordinated protest against the murder in eight Swedish universities at 6pm Swedish time today.

Oh, and the surviving descendants of the people who built the city you mention - the great majority of whom were forced to leave Anatolia (and now live in places like Nea Smyrni in the Athens suburbs) - prefer that it be referred to as Smyrna, a much more elegant name I'm sure you'll agree...

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