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Supreme Allied Condista • 8 years ago

Well if I was NATO Secretary General, Turkey would be getting some very forceful advice behind the scenes to quit treating the PKK the same as ISIS and encouragement to seek a cease-fire with the PKK and I'd be making that distinction clear publicly as I have already done.

Since NATO statements are only agreed unanimously then it is not surprising that Turkey would not agree to the following quoted statement for publication as "the view of NATO" but there is nothing to stop the NATO Secretary General making this statement in a personal leadership capacity, except for the fact that the Secretary General is not me, but someone else.

"Turkey has been quite wrong to try to paint ISIS and the PKK with the same brush, equally as "terrorists", when the PKK have legitimate concerns about protecting Kurds from ISIS, although the PKK's attack on Turkish police officers which broke the cease-fire was ill-advised and it is unsurprising that Turkey would label such attacks as "terrorists" and a unilateral ending of the cease-fire by the PKK. Ending the cease-fire was a bad move by the PKK because cease-fires are much easier to end than they are to resume.

So Turkey had a cease-fire with the PKK and rightly so but Turkey should never have had a cease-fire with ISIS, if indeed that's what it had, it was quite wrong to have such a cease fire with ISIS.

Also, Turkey should be open minded about resuming a cease-fire with the PKK. Admittedly it takes two sides to make a cease-fire stick but at least a cease-fire should be possible with the PKK in the way it should not be possible with ISIS.

Otherwise, the suspicion will be that the Turkish state is being manipulated by those fascists who are not sincere about fighting ISIS but instead are using ISIS attacks as a pretext, conflating ISIS with anyone Kurdish or Turkish leftist, as a smokescreen for a far wider and undemocratic crackdown."

zirva1 • 8 years ago

This meeting is a joke!

virgile • 8 years ago

NATO "solidarity" means absolutely nothing practically.Turkey is in need of a form of 'legitimacy' to attack a neighboring country that it can never get at the UNSC.
As in the Libyan case, NATO says Yes, but the UNSC would say NO.
Therefore at the first blunder ( killing Kurds or civilians) Turkey will be asked to stop and if it does not than one country ( Iran, Russia or an European country) could call for a UNSC security meeting that would put Turkey into trouble.
In the meantime, more terrorists attacks will happen within Turkey and NATO can do nothing...

Turkey is getting deeper in trouble...

Jorge Saucedo • 8 years ago

How about Turkey buying the oil from ISIS, that make Turkey a threat to the world, are you all blind, Turkey contribute to the growth of ISIS by buying the oil from them. Turkey should be sanctioned and warned that Nato may get rid of them.
TURKEY IS A TERRORIST NATION ITSELF.