"We have always struggled for the sake of peace, democracy, development and stability for our people and peoples of the region. We are in fact in a bitter and continued state of struggle against terrorism," the statement [by Kurdish President Massud Barzani] said.
Whst's still unclear to me is, how does the global community keep letting this happen? How do we always figure out a way to ignore one group's crises by focusing too hard on another's? And then crazy shit starts to erupt on the street behind our backs because we were busily looking hard in the other direction, and we turn to see what's going on behind us and we are shocked. Well, the rest of the world keeps operating. We are in fact in a... struggle against terrorism. These communities - shit, not just communities, entire regiouns - of people, on their native land or not, feeling at risk, feeling like victims. The story of the Kurds is sad. It's not surprising that, for their own protection, they would seek it from amongst their people and be able to ignore questionable activities because they all know what they need protection against. So they set up this militia, which "largely operates clandestinely through local social groups in the three northern Iraqi Kurdish provinces of Sulaimaniyah, Arbil and Dohuk." They'll call it 'social groups,' I'd say you'd be better off to understand them as organizations like Fatah.
""We do not want to sacrifice our cultural and economic relations with Iraq for the sake of a terror organisation," [Turkish Foreign Minister Ali Babacan] said, referring to the PKK."
Source: Agence France-Presse
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