PKK
has been traditionally supported by other terrorist groups such
as PFLP in Palestine, ASALA and DASHNAK in Armenia, Hizbullah in Lebanon,
and local terror groups such as TKP-ML, DEV-SOL, THKP-C, etc...
Again, PKK has been supported by states that
openly or secretly support terrorism as a tool of politics such as Hafız
Esad's Syria, Saddam's Iraq, Kaddafi's Libya, and to a lesser extent the
Islamic republic of Iran. All countries with
dubious international reputation. Because
animosity against Turkey is the rule in that country, PKK
militants are also loved and supported in Greece
and the Greek part of Cyprus (PKK has
training camps in both.) You can read further on this subject hereunder
the heading, “DEGENERATED GUERILLA GROUP-PKK”.
For entirely different reasons, Russia, too, cuddles
PKK. Due to their covert support in the past, and the present
power of this terror organization at the heart of Europe, willy nilly,
many European countries are also becoming explicit supporters of PKK in
a rather Machiavellian fashion. This "people's movement" is in posession
of a big armory stuffed full of Italian-made land-mines, South African
made ammunition, automatic weapons from various countries, rocket-launchers
from Russia, all the weapons Saddam left behind after the Gulf war etc.
Imagine the kind of organization required to get ammo from S. Africa
to Southeastern Turkiye (through the many in-between customs etc). Who
could believe that this peasant movement (at best -- and not intended as
a disparagement but as a definition) is able to do this without the assistance
of the covert operations departments of Western countries?
However; as
Michael Ledeen
so aptly states in his article titled "Europe
Coddles a Terrorist, Again" , "One
of the costs of appeasement is the abandonment of principle, and neither
the Germans nor the Italians (nor, for that matter, the Belgians, who also
asked for Ocalan’s arrest) have any stomach for this case. They just want
it to go away so they can go back to wooing the PKK and playing a role
in the "peace process." Why are democratic
countries supporting a terror organization, and in fact doing their utmost
to generate another Yugoslavia-like situation?
Simple, bad history, bad politics, and bad investments including financial
ones. Also, please just consider the numbers in Germany:
| According to
the German Foreign Minister, PKK had one thousand active militants in 1978...
With the current figures (1997), out of its 50 thousand sympathizers, the
PKK has more than seven thousand active militants in Germany, making up
10 per cent of the Kurdish community living in Germany.DEGENERATED
GUERILLA GROUP-PKK |
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