The authorization that the Turkish Parliament has overwhelmingly given the government to order a military operation into northern Iraq in pursuit of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) terrorists has the United States and Europe on edge. This is quite understandable because Turkey is known to carry out its warnings.
1974 is a case in […]
Turkey did not help the United States on Iraq at a critical moment and has turned into the most anti-American country, mainly due to the PKK issue and Washington’s currying favor with the Iraqi Kurds. In return the U.S. is not prepared to go that extra mile to help Turkey over the PKK in a way […]
Istanbul recently hosted Billy Hayes, the hero of the film “Midnight Express,” who in 1978 was said to have been seriously brutalized during his incarceration in a Turkish prison for drug smuggling. Hayes, who was in Istanbul, to attend an international security conference was contrite. On the verge of tears he told a press conference […]
It is time for all to understand that Turkey is serious about the PKK, and is being pushed into having to act, one way or another, even if it be without the support of its “friends”.
Domestic politics is spiraling into a battle of nerves. The increased PKK attacks against members of the Turkish security forces […]
What makes the whole political circus in Turkey appear totally immoral is the manner in which party allegiances can be switched over night by self serving politicians, whose sole purpose is to get into Parliament by any means in order to reap the benefits that comes from being a deputy.
Foreigners who follow political developments […]