April 03, 2006
Public Bus Torched by Demonstraters, Three Women killed....Update 1
Firemen stand next to a burnt-out wreckage of an inter-city bus after it was attacked by an unidentified group of men hurling molotov cocktails in Istanbul April 2, 2006. A group of men tossed petrol bombs on the vehicle which careened into pedestrians and killing three in Turkey's largest city on Sunday as pro-Kurdish riots continued to spread. REUTERS/Cihan News Agency
Amerikan Turk says "The Kurds show their true colors in public for a change, instead of using the guerilla warfare they have been waging for decades in the remote mountains and valleys of southeastern Turkey..." I know Murat is certainly more sensitive than what he literally says here but I guess he symbolizes what things are going towards... All of us should be more careful in making generalizations....
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Erkan, my point was directed towards the overwhelmingly large number of Americans who believe that the Kurds [in Northern Iraq] are:
-all peaceful, tolerant, without prejudice, and against terrorism
-deserving of their own state carved from the ruins of Iraq, in spite of promises the US made to Turkey in March 2003
-a "truer" and more credible ally to the US, than Turkey is..
Find Michael Totten's website or the one called "Redneck's Revenge" and read the ridiculous and ignorant comments left there by the militant pro-Bush Islamophobic right.
You will notice that Turkey is dismissed (for refusing use of Incirlik for Iraq) and Kurds are the best thing since sliced bread.
Let these wing-nuts see the unseen for a change. Turkey's campaign against the PKK gets no coverage here in the US, but these random acts of violence most certainly do..
Posted by: Murat at April 4, 2006 07:03 AMThank you Murat, your info is good for my audience!
Posted by: erkan at April 4, 2006 09:28 AM