A decade ago, when we were supporting the atrocities against the Kurds in both Turkey and Iraq, this was their status:
<<< Another friend, Turkish president Turgut Ozal, was authorized to intensify Turkey's repression of Kurds in partial payment for his services as "a protector of peace," in Bush's words, joining those who "stand up for civilized values around the world" against Saddam Hussein. While making some gestures towards his own Kurdish population and attempting to split them from Iraqi Kurds, Ozal continues to preside over "the world's worst place to be Kurdish" (Vera Saeedpour, director of the New York-based program that monitors Kurdish human rights). >>>
Since that time, we held it up to the world as a crime of Saddam's, while simultaneously providing massive, crucial support to the worse atrocities in Turkey. And zero comment from the "liberal media", of course.
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Tom |
