A Secure Zone will mean refuge and protection for the Kurds. Reports of Turkey assisting ISIL and abandoning the Kurds under difficult circumstances do not reflect the truth. First of all, Turkey’s concept of Islam is totally incompatible with ISIL, and is in fact the antidote to radical terror. As a country that has fought terror for more than 30 years, Turkey would never behave in such a way as to support ISIL. At a time when ISIL was not even yet on many European countries’ agendas , Turkey included it on the list of terror organizations and adopted the same policy against ISIL as against all other terror organizations. One of the main aims of the black propaganda carried out by the PKK and its sympathizers is to ensure moral and material support of America and the West for the PKK. Yet it is Turkey that is the protector of the Kurdish people, not the PKK. During ISIL’s attack on Kobani, the PKK fled, leaving Kurdish mothers, children and old people behind, while the Syrian Kurds fleeing from ISIL found safety in Turkey. The PKK that fought with unconventional war tactics up in the mountains grew strong only by shooting Turkish soldiers in the back. Down on the plains, however, it suffered a heavy defeat at the hands of ISIL, which used the same unconventional warfare tactics. The myth of ‘heroic Kurdish guerrillas against ISIL’ thus also came to an end. If the USA and the West want to protect the Kurds, they need to support Turkey, not the Leninist, Stalinist PKK who wants to build a new North Korea in the region. Establishment of a secure zone will represent a guarantee for the Kurds, especially those living in Kobani.
Posted on: Thu, 09 Oct 2014 06:58:40 +0000