Saturday, January 12, 2013

Erdogan calls out France on PKK connections

Operating on the premise that the best defense is a good sturdy offence, Turkey PM Erdogan went on the attack today to demand an explanation as to why one of the three PKK activists murdered in Paris had been meeting with French PM Hollande.

The assassination of the PKK operatives in the Kurdish Cultural Center bore all the hallmarks of a professional hit. While there have been numerous stories floated that seek to pin the blame on intra-PKK rivalry, serious people understand that there is only one player who wished these people dead.

That would be Erdogan's own military intelligence service.

Why would Erdogan try to make such an issue of a Hollande meeting with one of these Paris operatives when he himself has been meeting with PKK founder Abdullah Ocalan?

He is obviously trying to throw the hounds off the scent.

Erdogan has backed himself into a corner that is largely of his own making. Somewhere along the line he obviously agreed to be NATO's point man in the Syria uprising. That was of course well before it became apparent that his former ally Assad had no interest in following the NATO script.

Among the many other side-effects of this ill-timed uprising, Erdogan now has to deal with a Kurdish population that takes inspiration, not to mention arms, from the Kurds across the border in Syria, who are fighting for their lives against the Islamist radicals who now run the so-called Syrian Spring.

This will not end well for Erdogan, nor for Turkey.

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