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To: Elroy who wrote (243036)	7/24/2005 4:41:01 AM
From: tejek	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1573482

The Kurds, while Sunni, are from a different sect than the Saddam Sunnis. I think you may be right about the geographic area......I think most of their paramilitary are still in Turkey, fighting the Turks. I'm laughing now. The Kurdish paramilitary is in Turkey fighting the Turks?!?! I'm going to Turkey on vacation in three weeks, Another vacation? You sure get a lot of vacation time. I hope they don't shoot me while getting on a train.... Since you will be in the neighborhood, why don't you check things out? Make sure you visit the the hills and mts. southeast of Ankara, near Iraq. Be sure to bring along some body armor. Let us know what you find. "(Partiya Karkerên Kurdistan or PKK), is an armed anti-goverment organisation claiming to defend the rights of the Kurdish people in Turkey. Its main objective is the creation of an independent Kurdish state in Kurdistan, a territory that is currently southeastern Turkey northeastern Iraq , northeastern Syria and northwestern Iran Iran (historically Persia) It arose from a radical youth movement in Turkey and was founded in 1973 1973 was a common year starting on Monday." ************* "Since the declaration of cease-fire on August 2004, aside from a few isolated incidents armed conflict came to a complete halt. Recently however there is an increase on PKK activity. There is an increase in PKK attacks on Turkish military, police, and governmental targets near the Iraqi border in the last weeks. While PKK claims it is only acting in self-defense, Ankara is increasing her pressure to the US for a millitary strike to the PKK in northern Iraq. With the end of its unilateral cease-fire in August 2004 (the cease-fire had lasted for five years), on the claims that Ankara's reforms are "cosmetic", PKK leaders seem to favour a return to armed guerilla warfare. A great increase in PKK attacks on Turkish military, police and governmental targets seem to further prove this fact.** The PKK claims it is only acting in self-defense and for the protection for the Kurds. Meanwhile, the leader of the PKK, Abdullah Öcalan, has recently released the Declaration of Democratic Confederalism in Kurdistan [1]. Since his arrest in 1999, Öcalan had been campaigning for a peaceful solution to the Kurdish conflict inside the borders of Turkey, and in this document he asks for a border free confederation between the Kurdish pieces of Turkey (called North Kurdistan by Kurdish nationalists), Syria (West Kurdistan), Iraq (South Kurdistan) and Iran (East Kurdistan). In this zone, three bodies of law would be implemented: EU law, Turkish/Syrian/Iraqi/Iranian law and Kurdish law." encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com Saddam Sunnis? The Sunnis under Saddam were Arabs.........the Kurds are not: "Kurds are an Indo-Iranian,non-Arab population that inhabits the transnational region known as Kurdistan" encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com Kurdish paramilitary in Turkey fighting the Turks? Yes. For someone who is so arrogant, there are significant gaps in your knowledge.