Turkey Invades Sovereign Nation, Kills 4 Kurds. Crickets Chirp.
An overwhelming chorus of media disapproval ensued.. just not in this case.
The international media responds in outrage. No, wait..
Turkish troops in pursuit of Kurdish rebels have crossed into northern Iraq and killed four militants, Turkish officials say.
The military said air strikes were also launched against rebel positions deeper inside Iraqi territory.
The offensive took place after rebels made an unsuccessful attack on border guards, Turkish officials said.
Turkey has been fighting insurgents of the Kurdish Workers Party (PKK) for more than a quarter of a century.
Military officials said three commando companies and one special forces battalion penetrated 3km (two miles) into Iraq in pursuit of the rebels.
The PKK is fighting for autonomy in Turkey’s largely Kurdish south-east.
The group is considered a terrorist group, not just by Turkey but by the US and the EU.
More than 40,000 people are believed to have died in the conflict, on both sides.
Had this been a certain other country*, we would have never heard the end of it. A chorus of condemnation would have ensued from Washington to Beijing, the media calling for UN intervention. The bar-room lawyers would have been holding forth about ‘international law’; lefties everywhere would be out on the streets of major capitals chanting ‘Free the **********s’ and generally being annoying. But in stark comparison to events in this certain other country* – almost nothing.
The BBCs report (buried in the ‘Europe’ section) is extremely constrained in comparison to its approach for the certain other country*. The listings on Google News are a fraction of what they were for that certain other country*.
The only thing that’s coming over loud and clear is the hypocrisy.
[Source: BBC News Online]
*Can you guess who it is?
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you missed the part where the iraqi government gave them express permission to do this. kurds are not well-loved in iraq, either, due to the pkk. but do carry on, i wouldn’t want to interrupt your lunatic raving.
If you’re going to accuse us of lunatic raving, you’d better have some evidence to back yourself up. When and by whom was this express permission given? Because what we saw was Baghdad issuing its usual pusillanimous remonstrations, insisting that Turkey respect its borders.
Iraq knows however that Erdoğan will brush this aside, as a) he is extremely arrogant and self-important and b) he is the one that has ‘express permission’ – from Ankara. Iraq is reduced to making squeaky-voiced diplomatic protests, because, though furious about the incursions, she can do little as a weak, fledgling power in the region – especially given the fact that Turkey also has a tacit green light (and intelligence support) from Washington.
The PKK is a recognised terrorist group by Turkey, US, EU and many other countries around the world. The US is providing Turkey with real time intelligence as to the positions of the PKK terrorists before a Turkish air strike.
The Kurds in Northern Iraq should do more to stop PKK attacks in Turkey.