I have written on numerous occasions that I question the logic the US is not showing by arming the peschmerga/PKK……..this group were terrorists last month but now we are told that they are the only hope for saving Iraq……..I am NOT convinced that we are doing the right thing with this plan……mainly because of stories like this…….from Chinese news……..
ANKARA, Sept. 8 (Xinhua) — The Kurdish Workers’ Party (PKK) militants kidnapped 10 children in Turkey’s eastern province of Mus late Sunday, private Hurriyet newspaper reported on Monday.
A group of 30 PKK militants kidnapped the 10 children between the age of 12 to 15, including one girl, at a mosque in Catakli village in Mus’ Bulanik town on Sunday night, the report said.
The PKK, listed as a terrorist organization by Turkey, the United States and the European Union, took up arms in 1984 in a bid to create an ethnic homeland in southeastern Turkey. Since then, more than 40,000 people have been killed in conflicts involving the group.
I wish I could say that arming the PKK in response to IS would be a good idea…..but I cannot….I am not convinced at all…….as old saying goes….”leopard cannot change its spots”……..