Turkey Accused of Killing Kurd Leader – Trying to Trigger Civil War in Syria
By Tony Cartalucci
BLN.com
October 9, 2011
Turkey a NATO member, and notorious butchers of the Kurdish people not only within their borders but well beyond them, including multiple incursions into Iraq in 2007, 2008, and 2010, with tank battalions as well as air strikes on “suspected” militant targets on both sides of the border, has played a role in the assassination of Syrian-Kurdish leader Mashaal Tammo according to Kurdish activists. Syrian Arab News Agency (SANA) reported that Kurdish Party leaders accused Turkish intelligence of assassinating Tammo, aiming to ignite sedition throughout the northern province of Hasaka. Hasaka Province conveniently shares a borders with Turkey – a border Turkey has systematically militarized in its decades long war against the Kurdish people. It is also a border Turkey is now conducting “military exercises” alongin an overt threat to Syria, Voice of America reports. Turkey and its Western sponsors are now hoping the resulting chaos will trigger an armed Kurdish uprising in Syria against the Assad government and be the “tipping point” in an otherwise stalled 7 month-long destabilization attempt.
The assassination was also complemented by mystery gunmen who opportunistically attacked Tammo’s funeral procession, killing several attendees and further provoking Syria’s Kurd minority to rise up in violence. Details of the shootings were filtered through the London-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a notorious propaganda front whose second-hand reports are faithfully repeated by Western media outlets as “fact.” The expediency with which propagandists at BBC and the US State Department concluded the shootings were the work of the Syrian government further lends suspicion over who indeed carried out the assassination and the subsequent shootings at Tammo’s funeral – a dream scenario for Western nations bent on ousting Assad by collapsing Syrian society into a Libyan-style civil war.
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Dear sir,
I am a Turkish American citizen living in California.
I am one of your subscriber and respect Bob
Chapman great deal. In regards to some of your
views regarding Turkish government being engaged
in unfair and hostile activities against the kurds I would
Like to say the following.:
Turkish population is made out of mixed cultures
And more than 20 million Turkish citizens of Kurdish
Origin live witin Turkey. Kurdish regions within Turkey
are represented by more than 100 congressman within
the congress. One of Turkey’s great president was
Also Kurdish origin. We have several state ministers
are of a Kurdish origin as well. Turkey’s war is
Not against the Kurdish people but it is against
Pkk which is responsible killing more Kurds than
Turks over the last 30 years. Many PKK terrorist
Start their attacks from Syria and Northern Iraq where
They are amazingly supported by some European
Countries. The main issue is to divide Turkey and
Create a divide and rule type of a strategy. If in
Fact 20 million Kurds were unhappy within the
Boundaries of Turkey there would have been a
A division within Turkey long time ago. Turkey supported
Several hundred thousand Iraqi Kurds and made
Them settle in the southern Turkey when Saddam
Applied chemical weapons and torchered the
Kurds in Iraq.
I strongly suggest you do your homework well
Before making some of your comments. You seem
to study the economic issues quite well but I see
You lack lot of facts about some regional issues
within the middle east. I have an open mind in
All issues but I also believe Turkey has the right
To secure it’s borders especially when it is surrounded
With countries like Iran,Syria and Iran. If any terrorist
Attack was launced into Western nation on daily
Basis the picture would have been lot worse.
Having lived in both countries I invite you to br
study the subject quite well and do not jump to
Into conclusions in the absence of factual
Information.
My kind Regards.