From Wall Street Journal, on PKK

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Subject: From Wall Street Journal, on PKK


WSJ Mart 24 Midwest Edition Page A12 "Review and Outlook"

Here are some paragraphs from the article

- "After a decade of bloody guerilla warfare, Turkish government
forces are on a mission to wipe out PKK. It is a destructive
terrorist group, and the Turks should be getting more support
than the West, once again, has been willing to give an Islamic
nation."

- "PKK is one of the deadliest terrorist movemments in the Middle
   East"

- "The group (PKK) by no means represents a significant portion
of Turkish Kurds, much less other Kurds in the region, but the
organization (PKK) is constantly described in many Western circles
as fighting for "Kurdish rights". The PKK's record of slaughtering
Kurdish Villagers loyal to the government should be evidence enough
that the opposite is true"

- "PKK makes money through narcotics dealing in Europe, under the
protection of Syria and Iran. PKK channels its supplies from
Bekaa valley in to Europe"

- "The Turkish government still has to make improvements in human
rights front and battle PKK with education and enfrachising, especially
economically, the Kurds who the PKK uses as human shields and as PR
material"


Murat Duman (Oric)

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