excuse me if i refuse to believe that pkk is a kurdish movement and connected with kurd teali guild back in the world war 1. its true that these guilds and cemiyets have been worked upon for almost like 200 years and their situation constantly misrepresented and improved for centuries, but i dont think that pkk is a result of this. its true that they used this misconception to help themselves with numbers, but if you take a moment and think about their tactics and the dates that they have started "working" you will see that the core strategy is far from a simple rebellion or a result of "fake assimilation".
if pkk was directly related with the mistreatment of kurds, this movement would have died as soon as it started. it wouldve died at 60, or 80, like the rest of such people-based movements. but any eneral in the army will tell you that pkk is a foreign threat that takes its strenght from beyond the border, syria, iran and iraq. everybody knows that they have training camps almost everywhere, greece and israel being the top most. do you know any other ethnicity-related movement that received so much foreign support anywhere else in the world?
if it was a simple final-chain-of-the-eastern-rebellions than 1- 5 million kurds would be supporting it and the country wouldve turned upside down 2- the ethnic demographics of pkk would not include a 60% armenian rate 3- they wouldnt be using heavy weapons such as mortars, rocket launchers, anti air missles, light cannons and light weapons which were all more advanced than the ones that being were used by the turkish army in 90s, they would be using simple handguns.
plus its a bit far-off guess to think that this teali and cemiyet movements that were parented by britian and france in ww1 are still being supported and seriously worked upon by england at the moment. i dont know france though. but i dont think their intelligence is as advanced to work above and around the american, iranian, barzani and israeli intelligence in the region.
i do agree however that this fight has hit the knife to the bone and everybody is sick and tired of it and no foreign games can change the turkish mind that is set for peace right now.
I think in the end, it is up to you if PKK is the result of 90 years of Kurdish politics of our republic or not. Or in generic, you call our policies of creating ´one nation´ ´fake asimilation´.
This movement or PKK did not go away or died away because the mistreatement of Kurds continued. That is simply the truth. Now, they are asking for equality and a life as Kurds. This is as simple as that. Any general in the army? I would not believe them. We heard that ´foreign element´ as a story since the begining of PKK. Infact, if you check the history there were almost ´foreign elements in every rebellion´. (Even in Sheik Sait rebellion- later, Inonu said it was not the truth ). Foreign elements rethoric has gone long time ago. Even the president says that the problem is inside our borders.
But anyway, all these argumants were for one thing and one thing only: A turkey without terrorism and a Turkey, where everybody lives with their own identity. A better Turkey. More democratical Turkey.
And it seems like we are a step closer to that objective.
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