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In Your Opinion is the PKK a Terrorist Organization?

In Your Opinion is the PKK (Kurdistan Workers Party) a Terrorist Organization?


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In Your Opinion is the PKK (Kurdistan Workers Party) a Terrorist Organization?
They are one of the strongest Kurdish organizations (militarily speaking) fighting against ISIS. They have signed a cease fire with Turkey. Many claim they are only designated a terrorist organization because they want a Kurdish state in parts of Turkey (Turkey being a major US ally). The have fought to save Yazidi lives. They are generally popular among Kurds. So: In Your Opinion is the PKK (Kurdistan Workers Party) a Terrorist Organization?
 
In Your Opinion is the PKK (Kurdistan Workers Party) a Terrorist Organization?
They are one of the strongest Kurdish organizations (militarily speaking) fighting against ISIS. They have signed a cease fire with Turkey. Many claim they are only designated a terrorist organization because they want a Kurdish state in parts of Turkey (Turkey being a major US ally). The have fought to save Yazidi lives. They are generally popular among Kurds. So: In Your Opinion is the PKK (Kurdistan Workers Party) a Terrorist Organization?

Yes it is.
 
In Your Opinion is the PKK (Kurdistan Workers Party) a Terrorist Organization?
They are one of the strongest Kurdish organizations (militarily speaking) fighting against ISIS. They have signed a cease fire with Turkey. Many claim they are only designated a terrorist organization because they want a Kurdish state in parts of Turkey (Turkey being a major US ally). The have fought to save Yazidi lives. They are generally popular among Kurds. So: In Your Opinion is the PKK (Kurdistan Workers Party) a Terrorist Organization?

If you ask the Turks, they definitely would say they are. As for me, I'm not sure. All I do know is that they want their own state and are willing to fight for it, and the only thing stopping them is the threat of Turkey invading them. You know, in someways, this reminds me a lot of Palestine/Israel prior to the Camp David Accords. Though, someone else would have to tell me if that's an accurate comparison.
 
In Your Opinion is the PKK (Kurdistan Workers Party) a Terrorist Organization?
They are one of the strongest Kurdish organizations (militarily speaking) fighting against ISIS. They have signed a cease fire with Turkey. Many claim they are only designated a terrorist organization because they want a Kurdish state in parts of Turkey (Turkey being a major US ally). The have fought to save Yazidi lives. They are generally popular among Kurds. So: In Your Opinion is the PKK (Kurdistan Workers Party) a Terrorist Organization?

The PKK is obviously a terrorist organization. They are designated as a terrorist organization because they have killed thousands of people and have a penchant for bombing Turkish cities. However it isn't entirely clear that the PYD is a carbon-copy of the PKK anymore than PJAK is. The intransigence Turkey has shown in this situation in particular are inexcusable.
 
I don't much care. They appear to be the only people in the Middle East willing to stand and fight the ISIS butchers.
 
The PKK is obviously a terrorist organization. They are designated as a terrorist organization because they have killed thousands of people and have a penchant for bombing Turkish cities. However it isn't entirely clear that the PYD is a carbon-copy of the PKK anymore than PJAK is. The intransigence Turkey has shown in this situation in particular are inexcusable.

You seem familiar with the situation. Am I correct in drawing the comparison between the PKK/Turkey and Israel/Palestine prior to the Camp David Accords?
 
You seem familiar with the situation. Am I correct in drawing the comparison between the PKK/Turkey and Israel/Palestine prior to the Camp David Accords?

More or less, it's a violent separatist organization after-all. If you were going to identify a difference it would be that the PKK has fought the Turkish military more than it's targeted civilian targets which was the opposite of the PLO and similar groups. Though it has frequently targeted civilians.
 
The PKK is obviously a terrorist organization. They are designated as a terrorist organization because they have killed thousands of people and have a penchant for bombing Turkish cities. However it isn't entirely clear that the PYD is a carbon-copy of the PKK anymore than PJAK is. The intransigence Turkey has shown in this situation in particular are inexcusable.

i concur...
 
In Your Opinion is the PKK (Kurdistan Workers Party) a Terrorist Organization?
They are one of the strongest Kurdish organizations (militarily speaking) fighting against ISIS. They have signed a cease fire with Turkey. Many claim they are only designated a terrorist organization because they want a Kurdish state in parts of Turkey (Turkey being a major US ally). The have fought to save Yazidi lives. They are generally popular among Kurds. So: In Your Opinion is the PKK (Kurdistan Workers Party) a Terrorist Organization?

Yes. However, I don't see their terrorism disappearing until Ankara addresses the legitimate concerns of Turkish Kurdistan. The Kurds deserve autonomy or, at the very least, an acknowledgment of their ethnic identity and cultural rights. And if Turkey sides with the Syrian Kurds and expels ISIS from Kobani, the potential of peace with the PKK will increase greatly.

Also, the ceasefire was officially over when the PKK killed some Turkish policemen for the Turkish government's treatment of Kurdish refugees from Syria a week or so ago.
 
Not to the USA.

All that they have done is fight for their rights just like people in the USA did a couple of hundred years ago.
 
Not to the USA.

All that they have done is fight for their rights just like people in the USA did a couple of hundred years ago.

Our ancestors didn't blow up busses or send suicide bombers into malls.
 
If you ask the Turks, they definitely would say they are. As for me, I'm not sure. All I do know is that they want their own state and are willing to fight for it, and the only thing stopping them is the threat of Turkey invading them. You know, in someways, this reminds me a lot of Palestine/Israel prior to the Camp David Accords. Though, someone else would have to tell me if that's an accurate comparison.

The PKK is a lot more similar to the Jewish organizations of the 30's, the Irgun and the Lehi, than it is similar to the PLO.
It is so because the PKK like the Irgun and Lehi mainly targeted soldiers and police in guerrilla warfare, while the PLO painted its main target and objective as killing innocent civilians.
 
Not to the USA.

All that they have done is fight for their rights just like people in the USA did a couple of hundred years ago.

Buses and shopping malls didn't exist in 1776.

No, but what they did do was form an army and fight the British in the field, not target London with bombings.
 
In Your Opinion is the PKK (Kurdistan Workers Party) a Terrorist Organization?
They are one of the strongest Kurdish organizations (militarily speaking) fighting against ISIS. They have signed a cease fire with Turkey. Many claim they are only designated a terrorist organization because they want a Kurdish state in parts of Turkey (Turkey being a major US ally). The have fought to save Yazidi lives. They are generally popular among Kurds. So: In Your Opinion is the PKK (Kurdistan Workers Party) a Terrorist Organization?

Do they use terror to further their aims?
There is a definition of terrorism. It's not just a matter of opinion.
 
I don't much care. They appear to be the only people in the Middle East willing to stand and fight the ISIS butchers.

Hezbollah has been, so has the Syrian government
 
Our ancestors didn't blow up busses or send suicide bombers into malls.

Buses and shopping malls didn't exist in 1776.

Yes, that is the reason why Americans did not resort to terrorism back then. It was because there were no shopping malls and buses then. Cause if they did exist at the time then Americans would also blow up buses and malls with American suicide bombers?

:doh
 
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I wish the Turks and the Kurds could get along. So much potential wasted in the inner strife within Turkiye.

But technically, PKK did killed civilians. This makes it a terror organization, sadly.

Hopefully they start getting along better so as there would be no need for PKK in the future.
 
Yes, that is the reason why Americans did not resort to terrorism back then. It was because there were no shopping malls and buses then.
Cause if they did exist at the time then Americans would also blow up buses and malls with American suicide bombers
?

:doh



Why don't you go back in time and ask them? :roll:
 
The PKK entered into a ceasefire with Turkey 2 years ago. Settlement negotiations ("The Solution Process") are ongoing. However, the PKK has warned that it will break off talks if Turkey allows the Kurds of Kobane to be massacred by ISIS forces which have been relentlessly attacking the city (on the Syria/Turkey border) for over a month.

According to human rights organisations since the beginning of the uprising 4,000 villages have been destroyed,[56] in which between 380,000 and 1,000,000 Kurdish villagers have been forcibly evacuated from their homes.[234] Some 5,000 Turks and 35,000 Kurds,[56] including 18,000 civilians[54] have been killed, 17,000 Kurds have disappeared and 119,000 Kurds have been imprisoned by Turkish authorities.[55][56] According to the Humanitarian Law Project, 2,400 Kurdish villages were destroyed and 18,000 Kurds were executed, by the Turkish government.[234] Other estimates have put the number of destroyed Kurdish villages at over 4,000.[77] In total up to 3,000,000 people (mainly Kurds) have been displaced by the conflict,[58] an estimated 1,000,000 of which are still internally displaced as of 2009.[235]
Wikipedia: Turkey-PKK Conflict
 
Simpleχity;1063861578 said:
The PKK entered into a ceasefire with Turkey 2 years ago. Settlement negotiations ("The Solution Process") are ongoing. However, the PKK has warned that it will break off talks if Turkey allows the Kurds of Kobane to be massacred by ISIS forces which have been relentlessly attacking the city (on the Syria/Turkey border) for over a month.


Wikipedia: Turkey-PKK Conflict

Nice insight.

I find the post a Weakypedia short from being liked. These sort of general information could have been found in other more serious sites, could they not?
 
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