Turkish Conquer of Cyprus - Hypocrisy & Ethnic Incitement

Turkish Conquer of Cyprus  Hypocrisy & Ethnic Incitement Maria Sakharov re Turkey: "We all know the conqueror" 21.05.2016 | 10:23 The representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry, Maria Sakharov, in a post on Twitter, said that Ankara "uses increasingly annoying term" occupation ", while in the meantime know, for example, the true conqueror of Cyprus." Placing the representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry concerning Turkey's stance on Crimea noting that Ankara's policy aimed at inciting ethnic conflict and destabilization. Note that last February, Maria Sakharov, commenting contacts occupation regime officials in Ankara with Erdogan, spoke of "Turkey's blatant interference in Cyprus." The representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry had said that "the Turkish leader guided them open T / C to follow harsh and uncompromising line in the ongoing intercommunal negotiations in Cyprus, including on such a sensitive issue as the territorial demarcation." Recall that Erdogan had suggested to the representatives of the puppet regime for Morphou (non-return) and the granting of "nationalities" to settlers. As is known, the Nicosia by the Foreign Minister, had distanced themselves from the placement of a representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry ( "Let me not to intervene in this kind of discussion"). Meanwhile, although not expected developments relating to Cyprus during the UN World Humanitarian Summit to be held next Monday and Tuesday in Istanbul, many players of the Cyprus problem will be there. The President Nicos Anastasiades will participate in the session, while this will be the UN Secretary General Ban Ki Moon.  The only meeting that has been determined is that the Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. At the meeting will be attended by German Chancellor Angela Merkel, the emir of Kuwait Al-Ahmed Al-Sabah, Prime Minister of the Netherlands Mark Rutte, the Nigerian President Muhammed Yusuf, Prime Minister of Lebanon Tamam Selam. At the meeting will not attend the possessory leader Mustafa Akinci, although it was intended by the Turkish side. The United Nations will not have an excuse to invite him. Spokesman Akinci, Baris Burj said yesterday that the possessory leader was not invited. He said "there is still no such invitation. And he's one I know such an invitation have not. " If you receive such a call will evaluate the issue, he added. Source: The newspaper http://www.onalert.gr/stories/maria-zaxarova-gia-tourkia-oloi-kseroume-ton-kataktiti/49822 Archive | English http://archive.is/ukxnr COMMENT What  a joke this UN 'humanitarian' summit is, being held in Turkey that's: imprisoning legions of journalists; allegedly killed Serena Shim (American journalist) and Jacky Sutton (British journalist).  On top of that, Turkey bombs and kills Kurdish civilians with impunity: Ankara launched a massive crackdown on predominantly Kurdish areas in the south-east, imposing indefinite curfews in many Kurdish districts and waging gun, mortar and tank battles against PKK fighters. The areas are under a government lockdown, with the Turkish government preventing foreign journalists or inspectors from assessing the situation on the ground. Pro-Kurdish activists accuse Turkish forces of numerous violations of human rights, including extrajudicial killings of civilians, torture and other crimes. The Turkish government insists that it only does what it has to do stop Kurdish terrorism, but some activists call it collective punishment of the entire Kurdish people. The accusations may be consistent with the spree of attacks on pro-Kurdish Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP), the offices and rallies of which were bombed or attacked in other manner ahead of last year’s election.  [RTnews | ibid] AND they deal in ISIS stolen fuel, while also supporting and training ISIS Islamists that are destroying Syria for Turkey, Israel, Gulf Arabs, USA, Britain, their off-siders & the EU scum capitalist elites.   Turkey’s Erdogan Owes Syria $100Bn For Stolen Oil: Turkey & Israel Owes Iraq $1.5 Trillion For Stolen Kirkuk Oil. https://politicalvelcraft.org/2015/11/28/turkeys-erdogan-owes-syria-100bn-for-stolen-oil-turkey-israel-owes-iraq-1-5-trillion-for-stolen-kirkuk-oil/ Russia presents proof of Turkey’s role in ISIS oil trade https://www.rt.com/news/324263-russia-briefing-isis-funding/ Captured ISIS Terrorist Admits Stolen Oil Arrives in Turkey Daily http://www.globalresearch.ca/captured-isis-terrorist-admits-stolen-oil-arrives-in-turkey-daily/5499171 Meet The Man Who Funds ISIS: Bilal Erdogan, The Son Of Turkey’s President http://www.mintpressnews.com/211624-2/211624/ Turkey staged gas attack in Syria: Seymour Hersh: Turkey staged gas attack to provoke US war on Syria LINK | here AND the were caught planning false flag ops in Syria. Turkey YouTube Ban: Full Transcript of Leaked Syria 'War' Conversation Between Erdogan Officials LINK | here Hilarious Leaked Turkish False Flag Plot (Video) Turkey Exposed Plotting War Turkey Cries - Leak Is 'Declaration of War' LINK | here Transcript - Banned Audio Leak Turkey Head of Intelligence (MIT) Hakan Fiday & Turkish FM Ahmet Davutoğlu False Flag Plot for Casus Belli in Syria LINK | here Son Get Rid of the Money LINK | here AND they shot down a Russian aircraft (that was bombing ISIS terrorists in Syria).  And they're lying assh*les.   The UN is a f*cking joke.   And listen to the Turkish invaders of Anatolia and aggressors in Cyprus trying to incite ethnic violence in Crimea.   C'mon, Kurds, get 'em.  ;) So what's Mossad doing with these Turkish jokers, reportedly meeting in Sweden?  Joint interests gas and destroying Syria.

We Must Get Britain Out of the EU - ASAP

ꕤ Article SOURCE http://www.breitbart.com/london/2015/12/12/britain-deserves-truth-immigration/ Britain Deserves Truth On Immigration EXTRACT PART ARTICLE ONLY FULL AT SOURCE  [ ... ] In a damming article in The Sun last week, Rod Liddle criticised David Cameron and his lack of backbone when it comes to standing up to the parading Angela Merkel and her persistence in trying to persuade Turkey to become a full member of the EU. At a time when many nations around Europe want less EU dictatorship and a cut in immigration, Merkel seems to want even more. The truth is, Merkel, the EU and David Cameron are about to give the right of entry to 70 million Turks – as well as £3 billion! Why? Because Merkel says so. Liddle says:     “…..70 million Turks! Why is it doing this Are they all mad? More like very, very, devious. Because the more people who come into the country, the more money the country generates. That keeps Chancellor George Osborne happy. But the amount of money we have per person – known as GDP per capita – reduces. So YOU have less, but the country, as a whole, has more, in the very short term. And of course, the richest people in the country benefit. Employers get to pay less in wages. And they get cheap nannies and au pairs and taxi cabs.” So the public have less in their pockets – less money to buy food, less for beer and less to pay the rent. Many of those entering the job market can only find low paid work with a glut of foreign migrants forcing down wages. It just isn’t sensible to have an open-door, unlimited mass immigration policy when we have 1.75 million unemployed in this country already. ... It is appalling statistics are being fiddled by Osborne to trick the public into believing they are being listened to. The EU will not allow David Cameron any leeway when it comes to migration in his so-called renegotiations.  They will not even consider withholding benefits to migrants entering the UK for just a short period of time – let alone four years as he has asked. The only way for the British government to satisfy the public’s needs when it comes to immigration is getting net migration down to the tens of thousands as promised, and not the hundreds. We must take back control of our own borders. Under no circumstances should Cameron even consider opening Britain up to 70 million more people. Cameron will not listen and Osborne wants to deceive us – we must Get Britain Out of the EU as soon as possible. Rob Comley is a researcher for the cross-party grassroots Eurosceptic campaign group Get Britain Out. http://www.breitbart.com/london/2015/12/12/britain-deserves-truth-immigration/ In case you missed it:    Turkey in EU -- equals MORE immigrants, from Turkey (pop. 70-million) -- rendering the £3 billion, allegedly to stop immigration -- a give-away to Turkey (& likely funding arming & supporting proxy terrorists in Middle East) -- expect GDP per capital to be reduced -- expect LESS income -- expect LOWER wages -- expect being locked out of low-end work (over-supply of cheap foreign labour) -- 1.75-million already UNEMPLOYED in Britain -- expect more unemployment TRANSCRIPT / VIDEO [confirm audio (for quotation purposes)] SOURCE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tXLPrKV7tbQ Earl of Dartmouth William Dartmouth MEP UKIP European Parliament Starsbourg, 6 February 2013 William Dartmouth MEP Thank you. Thank you, chair. There are already approximately 200,000 Kurds living in the United Kingdom. The Kurds in the United Kingdom are concentrated in our large cities, where even at the present time, there is profound pressure on public services, especially health and education. According to the Home Affairs Select Committee of the British House of Commons, should Turkey become a member of the European Union, up to 4.4-MILLION Turkish citizens of all ethnic groups would emigrate to Britain, where they would then have rights to benefits and the NHS. Now, I do not blame the Kurds for wanting to leave.  Ankara has a decade long policy of denying elementary linguistic and other cultural rights. However, the solution is not mass immigration to the UK and other EU member states. The solution is that Turkey start to treat its minorities with decency and respect, and we should make it crystal clear that Turkey, an Asian country, cannot join the EU. [applause] [William Dartmouth MEP advised that there is a 'blue card' for him from Marie-Christine VERGIAT MEP (France).] William Dartmouth MEP I'll certainly take it, yes. Marie-Christine VERGIAT MEP (France) Confederal Group of the European Left Translated from French (male voice): I just wanted to ask my colleague President whether he's actually looked at what the agenda was this afternoon. It doesn't say anything about Turkey's accession to the EU, nor does it say anything about the battle against immigration; or it's actually about supporting a peace process which desperately needs our support. Thank you very much. William Dartmouth MEP Madame, I must ask you to understand and accept that you cannot separate -- we cannot separate -- Turkey's systematic violation of human rights. Not just of Kurds, but of dissenters, Christians, journalists and and so on, from its application to be a member of the European Union and the establishment parties -- which, actually, you're not one -- should be ashamed of themselves that they systematically and consistently cover these matters up. [While Dartmouth MEP speaking, pans to head-shaking & laughing, Madame-of-the-left, wearing headphones] SOURCE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tXLPrKV7tbQ more William Legge Earl of Dartmouth MEP *this guy's name is confusing https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Legge,_10th_Earl_of_Dartmouth ---------------------- ꕤ ---------------------- COMMENT However despicable Merkel is, Merkel herself is not the EU. British and other European politicians (and hangers on) are as much a party to the disastrous European Union agenda as is Merkel. Merkel's being scapegoated while the European elites and the rest of the unpatriotic political and associated scum are getting off blameless and free to carry on screwing the European people. The passive European working man is absolutely screwed and Europe is finished. Also, Turkey rests mostly in Asia (variously described, but essentially in the Middle East) -- and the Turkic people are of Asian origin. Note that Europe is not merely opening itself up to Turkey, a country of 70-million Asians.  Europe, under the European Union arrangement, is (by default) opening its borders wide to the entire Middle East. To see the consequences of that, just take a look at the latest invasion. The Home Affairs Select Committee 2013 figures given for anticipated migration from Turkey is a gross underestimate, in my opinion. Note, Kurds alone in Turkey at: 14.5 million  - 2014 (CIA Book) That Christians are mistreated in Turkey but Turkey is pushed forward as a candidate for EU membership is beyond a joke -- as is handing Turkey US$3.2-billion to arm Middle Eastern Islamist terrorists (much like the ones currently destroying Syria). *I've not double-check audio.  Just quickly bashed it out. ꕤ

Immigration - And Chaos Everywhere

ꕤ Article SOURCE Various, as marked WARNING:  GRAPHIC - VIDEO https://youtu.be/Kn-RBMGDozk ---------------------- ꕤ ---------------------- Watched the above video via Twitter. It was titled something like:  Muslim refugees attack mother and daughter in Germany (which proved incorrect). The video is sickening.  Shocking level of violence.  A number of people on the road got bowled over by a passing car.  Chaos. Was subsequently notified that the footage isn't from Germany and was given this link [WARNING: GRAPHIC]:  http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=617_1442119315. While it's not exactly a relief that it was in Switzerland rather than in Germany,  it is something of a relief to learn the violence was at least confined to violence between immigrant parties, rather than attack on the host community.  The LiveLeak footage indicated that it was a confrontation between Kurdish and Turkish parties, and that 4 police and a K9 were injured, in addition to the various other parties injured (and possibly killed). News article related to this: Watch: Migrant Kurds And Turks Battle On The Streets Of Switzerland by Liam Deacon12 Sep 2015 Kurds and Turks went to war on the street of Europe once again today. A group of Kurdish independence supporters leaving a rally in the Swiss town of Bern were rammed by a car allegedly driven by a supporter of Turkish nationalism. Two are thought to have died, with twenty injured. The initial rally was organised by the “Union of Turkish Democrats in Europe” against Kurdish “terrorism,” NZZ reports. Around 100 Turkish nationalists gather and were met by a counter demonstration of around 180 supporters of Kurdish independence and the prescribed group the PKK. Local News provider Watson reports that the town center was sealed off and several bridges closed. Riot police used rubber bullets and peppers spray to separate the rival groups, who were angered by the ongoing conflict between their two ethnic groups in the Middle East. The fatal attack was on a smaller, breakaway group on the edge of the rally, local media Blick reports. Videos loaded to social media show a black Mercedes accelerating into a group of Kurdish demonstrators, identifiable by their yellow PKK flags. Several people are struck and screaming is heard. A spokeswoman for Canton Police confirmed to Watson that an “incident” involving a vehicle had occurred on Saturday afternoon. The driver had been detained but disruption in the town was ongoing when the spokeswoman addressed journalists at 18:00 local time. The violence follows Thursday’s bloody clashes in Frankfurt, Germany between Kurds and Turks, which descended into a riot, and further reports of violent clashes between the two ethnic groups in Hannover today. http://www.breitbart.com/london/2015/09/12/watch-migrant-kurds-and-turks-battle-on-the-streets-of-switzerland/ Germany:   Frankfurt Turkish vs Kurdish 11.09.2015 WATCH: Migrant Turks And Kurds Battle On Frankfurt Streets, German Army Called In by Simon Kent 11 Sep 2015 At least five arrests were made in Frankfurt on Thursday night after a march by supporters of Turkish nationalism descended into bloody violence when they clashed with rival Kurd separatists. Video of the riot has emerged on the same day Germany announced it will place 4,000 soldiers on standby over the weekend to help with a new wave of up to 40,000 refugees arriving in the country. Police said The Thursday event was billed as a “solidarity march commemorating fallen Turkish soldiers”. According to  FR Online to it was organised by the “Federation of Turkish young people” which campaigns on behalf of Turkey. The fracas involved a group of around 380 participant and started at the city’s main railway station at 18.30. Soon after the Turkish supporters set off there were attacks by immigrant Kurd counter-demonstrators who used sticks, bottles and stones to attack marchers. One taxi driver reportedly had his car damaged in the brawl. Police confirmed the counter-demonstrators were of Kurdish origin and quickly withdrew. More than 40,000 people have died since the PKK (Kurdistan Workers’ Party) launched its armed campaign in 1984 calling for an independent Kurdish state within Turkey. Now immigrants from both sides of that battle are carrying their fight onto the streets of Frankfurt. Meanwhile, Germany will mobilise 4,000 soldiers in the next 48-hours to help with the entry of up to 40,000 refugees in the country, Defence Minister Ursula von der Leyen said on Friday. She told Der Spiegel that she was placing the troops on alert with the expectation they could be asked to do more than just welcome the immigrant arrivals. “The country can be sure that the Bundeswehr [German army] will be supporting” efforts to care for refugees, Von der Leyen said, adding that the army could do yet more if called upon. “We are spreading these 4,000 soldiers across the country and they will intervene if the federal states [which are responsible for the initial uptake of refugees] request it,” a Defence Ministry spokesman told The Local. “They will provide a helping hand, for example to set up a refugee camp, to help with organization, provide buses and drivers, other types of transport, medical services and equipment, anything of that kind.” Record numbers of people from the Middle East and sub-Saharan Africa continue to pour into Europe, with around 7,600 entering Macedonia in the last 12 hours. http://www.breitbart.com/london/2015/09/11/watch-migrant-turks-and-kurds-battle-on-frankfurt-streets-german-army-called-in/ Meanwhile on the other side of the world: Bendigo mosque protest: Anti-mosque and anti-racism protesters clash Date     August 29, 2015 Tom Cowie, Reporter Police deployed capsicum spray in the heart of Bendigo on Saturday afternoon as violent scuffles broke out between opposing protest groups over plans for a mosque. About 200 people gathered in the central Victorian city for a protest organised by the United Patriots Front, where they were met with equal numbers from left-wing groups including No Room For Racism and the Socialist Alternative. A huge police presence, including a mounted unit, locked down large areas of the regional city in anticipation of the groups coming together. The anti-Islam demonstration was organised as part of a vocal campaign to stop a mosque from being built in Bendigo. The Victorian Civil and Administrative Council recently dismissed an appeal against the project. Police set up a barricade around Bendigo Town Hall for the anti-mosque protest at 2pm, as the No Room For Racism group gathered outside chanting and playing music. The groups tried to clash on several occasions, including at the Hargreaves Street Mall, but were met with large police numbers. At one point, protesters came together when a flag was burned by the anti-racist demonstrators. Police used capsicum spray on the anti-Islam protesters who were trying to get across the police line. Speaking out against the mosque and Islam were several leaders from the right-wing United Patriots Front, as well as Go Back To Where You Come From star Kim Vuga. The lead objector against the mosque, Julie Hoskin, spoke in front of the crowd and said the majority of people in Bendigo opposed the mosque. She accused the council and "complicit media" of trying to convince residents that most people in the city supported the mosque. "We are local and we are vocal and we don't want a mosque in Bendigo," she said. Many of the anti-Islam speakers were not from Bendigo but when they asked how many people in the crowd were from the area a large amount put their hand up. Several protesters on both sides wore masks to hide their identity. The anti-Islam demonstrators carried Australian flags and protest signs, including one that said "Say no to the Islamisation of Bendigo". Another said the local council was "sacrificing Bendigo to Islam for their own greed". Controversial Bendigo Councillor Elise Chapman, who has been a vocal opponent of the mosque, was in the crowd wearing an Australian flag. United Patriots Front leader Blair Cottrell was seen washing his eyes out with water after police deployed the capsicum spray. In his speech, Mr Cottrell lashed his opponents from the anti-racist protests as "losers, renegades and traitors". The UPF have been engaged in ongoing street battles with left-wing groups, including outside State Parliament last month.  Life-long Bendigo resident Sue McConnachie attended the rally with friends to show support for the mosque, but was disappointed with the level of aggression from both sides.  "It seemed like the emphasis on the local cause was certainly weakened by the people on the front lines," Ms McConnachie said. The anti-racist group at one point played Khe Sanh by Cold Chisel, a reference to Jimmy Barnes asking right-wing group Reclaim Australia not to play his songs. The rally broke up at about 4pm. Police remained on high alert after the protest in preparation any subsequent clashes. There were no arrests. http://www.theage.com.au/victoria/bendigo-mosque-protest-antimosque-and-antiracism-protesters-clash-20150829-gjaml8.html The wide range of problems in Switzerland, Germany, France, and a number of other Western European countries that result from cross-cultural immigration are staggering. But non-European refugees and immigrants keep pouring in, thanks to the policies of neocon politicians who are (a) responsible for the chaos abroad that results in displacement and migration (b) responsible for failing to make alternate arrangements for those they have displaced. Meanwhile, the domestic bleeding hearts and demented ideologues, are all for opening borders to more chaos, as well as irreconcilable cultural and other issues (at best). I strongly sympathise with those that seek to preserve their amenities, their national heritage, and the integrity and primacy of their own cultures, be it in Europe or in the colonies. It's impossible to see solutions.  All I see is doom. ꕤ

America's Kurdish Marxist Allies

SOURCE http://aina.org/news/20150724184904.htm America's Marxist Allies Against ISIS By Matt Bradley and Joe Parkinson Wall Street Journal Posted 2015-07-24 22:49 GMT Female PKK fighters greet male counterparts before attending a meeting at the operations base on Iraq's Sinjar Mountain (PHOTO: ERIN TRIEB FOR THE WALL STREET JOURNAL). SINJAR MOUNTAIN, Iraq -- Nine years ago, Zind Ruken packed a bag and left her majority-ethnic-Kurdish city in Iran, escaping a brutal police crackdown and pressure to marry a man she'd never met. Now the 24-year-old is a battle-hardened guerrilla, using machine guns and rocket-propelled grenades to fight Islamic State extremists in Syria and Iraq. She has deployed to reverse their advances on self-governing Kurdish communities. Last summer, she says, she helped rescue Kurdish-speaking Yazidis besieged on Sinjar Mountain. Her unit has fought Islamist insurgents and conventional armies in Syria, Turkey, Iran and Iraq--countries where an estimated 30 million Kurds live. Ms. Ruken's journey provides a glimpse behind the remarkable rise of the Kurdistan Workers' Party, or PKK, the cultlike Marxist-inspired group she fights for and whose triumphs against Islamic State have helped it evolve from ragtag militia to regional power player. The PKK and its Syrian affiliate have emerged as Washington's most effective battlefield partners against Islamic State, also known as ISIS, even though the U.S. and its allies have for decades listed the PKK as a terrorist group. The movement in the past has been accused of kidnappings, murder and narcotics trafficking, but fighters like Ms. Ruken have presented the world an appealing face of the guerrillas--an image of women battling as equals with male comrades against an appallingly misogynist enemy. U.S. war planners have been coordinating with the Syrian affiliate--the People's Defense Units, or YPG--on air and ground operations through a joint command center in northern Iraq. And in two new centers in Syria's Kobani and Jazeera regions, YPG commanders are in direct contact with U.S. commanders, senior Syrian Kurdish officials said. "There's no reason to pretend anymore," said a senior Kurdish official from Kobani. "We're working together, and it's working." By contrast, Ankara agreed only on Thursday to allow coalition airstrikes from an eastern-Turkey air base, after months of negotiations in which President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's government resisted international calls to enter the war with Islamic State. U.S. officials said the base deal shouldn't affect U.S. air support to Kurdish fighters in Syria and may help increase collaboration with the YPG because jets and drones will be closer to the battlefield. U.S. defense officials said coordination with YPG units, including some inside Syria, has improved the ability of coalition aircraft to strike Islamic State positions and avoid civilian casualties. U.S. Defense Secretary Ash Carter during a visit to the region this week said YPG forces in Syria are "extremely effective on the ground." Constantly shifting alliances in the region mean the PKK's rise isn't certain to continue. But the guerrilla group's growing stature has alarmed Turkey, a crucial North Atlantic Treaty Organization ally of the U.S., with whom the PKK has fought a three-decade war costing some 40,000 lives. The PKK is in peace talks with Turkey, and a political party linked to the PKK won a record 12% of the vote in Turkey's June parliamentary elections. Troubled by the PKK's battlefield victories, Ankara has vowed to prevent the formation of a Kurdish state in Syria. "We recognize YPG are fighting [Islamic State] and that Americans are giving support to it," a Turkish foreign ministry official said. "We transmit our views to American allies." On Monday, an Islamic State suicide bomber killed 32 Kurdish and Turkish activists in a Turkish border town opposite the Syrian city of Kobani, a YPG stronghold. The PKK on Thursday said it had killed two Turkish police officers in retaliation for not stopping the bomb. Obama administration officials acknowledged the PKK and YPG have links and coordinate with each other in the fight against Islamic State, but they said the U.S. continues to formally shun the PKK while dealing directly with YPG. The groups operate under separate command structures and have different objectives, the officials said. America's association with a terror-listed Maoist-inspired militia, even if indirect, shows how dramatically Syria's conflict has reconfigured regional alliances and eroded once-rigid borders. Just two years ago, President Barack Obama told Turkey the U.S. would continue to aid its battle against PKK "terrorists." The U.S. continues to share intelligence about the PKK with Turkey, and military officials from the two countries sit together in an Intelligence Fusion Cell in Ankara established by the George W. Bush administration to help Turkey fight the group. MAP Sources: CIA; Institute for the Study of War. But now, "the U.S. has become the YPG's air force and the YPG has become the U.S.'s ground force in Syria," said Henri Barkey, a former State Department analyst on Turkey now at Lehigh University. Some senior U.S. and British diplomats said the time has come for the U.S. and some European states to consider a broader rapprochement with the PKK. But U.S. officials said Washington is unlikely to revise the PKK's terror listing without a green light from Turkey, which has itself sent mixed messages to Washington about its own dealings with the group. U.S. military personnel aren't on the ground inside Syria vetting Kurdish forces, making it difficult to discern the affiliations of individual Kurdish fighters who may benefit from U.S. airstrikes, said a senior U.S. defense official. "These guys don't exactly wear patches identifying what groups they're fighting for," the official said, "but they are fighting the right guys." The PKK says its affiliates--Syria's YPG and groups called the PJAK in Iran and the HPG in Iraq--are separate but closely linked. PKK fighters and some analysts say they are one and the same. "It's all PKK but different branches," Ms. Ruken said, clad in fatigues in her encampment atop Sinjar Mountain this spring as a battle with Islamic State fighters raged less than a mile away at the mountain's base. "Sometimes I'm a PKK, sometimes I'm a PJAK, sometimes I'm a YPG. It doesn't really matter. They are all members of the PKK." On the battlefield, fighters like Ms. Ruken have the momentum. Since the Syrian uprising flared in 2011, the PKK and YPG have seized and defended large swaths of oil-rich territory in Syria and Iraq and are busy building state institutions. U.S. airstrikes last year helped the YPG repel an Islamic State onslaught on the Kurdish city of Kobani. In June, the fighters captured the Islamic State stronghold of Tal Abyad, supported by U.S. air power, connecting long-disjointed Kurdish regions and dramatically expanding the territory they control. 'We're not terrorists' "People look at us as if we're terrorists and they put us on this blacklist. We're not terrorists," said Ms. Ruken, who like all PKK fighters uses a nom de guerre--hers means "alive smiling"--and declined to give her real name. "The Kurds know what we are fighting for. They know we will give our souls for them." The Kurdish guerrilla groups pledge allegiance to Abdullah Ocalan, the PKK chief imprisoned on a Turkish island since 1999. From jail in 2005, he established PKK affiliates that evolved into today's YPG, HPG and PJAK. The PKK and affiliates have car-bombed Turkish cities, kidnapped hundreds and killed Turkish and Kurdish state employees. In 2009, the U.S. Treasury Department designated their leadership as significant narcotics traffickers. The PKK ruthlessly dispatches Kurdish political rivals in Syria and elsewhere, according to New York based Human Rights Watch. Zagros Hiwa, a PKK spokesman, said: "We have been defending our people against the denial and elimination policies of the Turkish state against the Kurds. Our struggle has always been on the basis of legitimate self-defense." The PKK practices an offshoot of Marxism it calls Democratic Confederalism. The group's utopian goals echo those of some Cold War-era leftist militias. It aims to create a Maoist-inspired agrarian society that opposes landowning classes, espouses gender equality and distances itself from religion. Its guerrillas speak of a leaderless society of equals but also glorify Mr. Ocalan with fanatical devotion. They talk of needing to inculcate Kurdish populations with their ideology, rigidly centralized around Mr. Ocalan's writings. The group's largely pro-West stance, and its deployment of female fighters like Ms. Ruken, has brought sympathy from Western governments and populations. Hundreds of volunteers from the U.S. and Europe have enlisted with the group since 2014. Calls are growing from European and some U.S. policy makers for the PKK to be removed from terror lists and directly receive arms from Washington. In February, two fighters from the YPG's all-female YPJ militia were invited to Paris's Élysée Palace to meet with President François Hollande --their first such meeting with a NATO leader. "The Kurds have emerged as the best buffer against Islamic State, and the PKK's military prowess has shifted perceptions of them in the West," said Marc Pierini, former European Union ambassador to Turkey now at the Carnegie Endowment in Brussels. "It looks like their moment may be coming." But Ankara, which relaunched peace talks with the PKK in 2012, is nervous its advances and burgeoning links with the West will strengthen its negotiating position, said Western diplomats and analysts. And the PKK's expanding strength comes amid a rising tide of Kurdish autonomy that could augur a push for Kurdish independence across the Middle East, deepening the region's fault lines. At the PKK's Qandil Mountain base in Iraq, the group's chief commander, Cemil Bayik, said in an interview that perceptions of the PKK were shifting dramatically. "Islamic State's attacks on the Kurds, and the Kurds fighting back against Islamic State, has changed the international attitude toward all Kurds, especially the perception of the PKK," he said. "Now I want to ask: Who are the terrorists?" Around the base's cluster of buildings, fighters with AK-47s patrol in baggy Kurdish shalwar pants. The winding road there snakes past a massive color image of the imprisoned Mr. Ocalan etched into the mountainside, maintaining vigil on the soldiers below. Ms. Ruken's war Fighters like Ms. Ruken trace the arc of a Kurdish militia expanding its sway across these troubled borderlands. While her tale isn't independently verifiable, interviews with other footsoldiers like her echo elements of her story. In 2006, aged 15, she resolved to join the PKK after Iranian security forces broke up her family's New Year celebrations, beating and arresting her mother, father and older brother. Their crime: celebrating with a traditional Kurdish bonfire while clad in traditional Kurdish dress. "That made a fire inside me," said Ms. Ruken, whose ginger-colored hair sets her apart. "I couldn't accept it." She joined an underground Kurdish women's group with PKK links in her northern-Iran hometown of Sanandaj, training for two years in small arms and light artillery. She then traveled to Mr. Bayik's Qandil Mountain base, the heart of the group's operations in exile. Fighting with the PKK meant abandoning personal identity and accepting extreme austerity. Ms. Ruken and her comrades go by battlefield names chosen to honor fallen friends or convey political convictions. They are forbidden to own property, have romantic relationships or speak much of their pre-PKK past. The fighters often use a vocabulary of Marxist revolution honed in obligatory study of Mr. Ocalan's writings. Stories of personal sacrifice are often so extreme as to seem exaggerated. "We are not fighting just for ourselves," said Chavon Ageet, a fighter in Ms. Ruken's unit who chose his name, meaning "sheep herder," after a fallen friend. "If any Kurd fights only for their own family, we will never have our own Kurdistan." "We need to establish the greater Kurdistan first," said Mr. Ageet, adding that he regularly fights under the command of women, "and then think about marriage." Ms. Ruken's first deployment was in 2010 to fight Iranian forces, she said. Tehran had agreed with Ankara to confront the PKK's Iranian affiliate. She was schooled in guerrilla tactics honed during decades of conflict against Turkey's army, NATO's second largest. Lightly armed and operating in small groups, PKK fighters used hit-and-run attacks against better-armed enemy positions. Ms. Ruken described the battles as lopsided, often with only seven or eight guerrillas attacking more than 100 Iranian soldiers, sometimes creeping across open fields in ambush. When the Iranians fought, "they're thinking about their families, their children, their lives, how they shouldn't die," she said. "For us, when we join the PKK, we abandon our lives." That fighting faded in 2011, but hostilities with Turkey re-emerged. Aided by U.S. intelligence, Turkish warplanes bombed the PKK's Qandil Mountain base. Ms. Ruken traveled to the Turkish border town of Semdinli to fight more than 2,000 Turkish troops in a battle where more than 100 PKK guerrillas died. By the time Ankara restarted peace negotiations, the PKK was on the offensive in Syria, bolstering its affiliate in the Kurdish-dominated northeast. Ms. Ruken was posted there as the group solidified its grip over the province, boosting conscription and training and suppressing opposition Kurdish factions. When Islamic State surged into northern Iraq last summer, Ms. Ruken found herself fighting an enemy whose misogyny reminded her of some aspects of the Iranian regime she fled. Her unit deployed to rescue thousands of Yazidis--Kurdish-speaking adherents to an ancient religion who fled to Sinjar Mountain after Islamic State singled them out for murder and enslavement. As images of starving Yazidis shocked the world, PKK and YPG commanders punched through jihadist lines, opening a humanitarian corridor. Washington took note. When the YPG liberated the mountain, some U.S. officials helicoptered in and met YPG commanders. Ms. Ruken said she typically fights with an AK-47 or a Soviet-era heavy-infantry machine gun about as long as she is tall. "We fight our enemies whoever they are," she said. "Perhaps Islamic State will stand for a while. But they will fall." Ali A. Nabhan, Adam Entous and Ayla Albayrak contributed to this article. SOURCE http://aina.org/news/20150724184904.htm --------------------- MORE More info at this post. --------------------- COMMENT Been over this a couple of times.  Hard to keep everybody straight.  But I think I get it. Whatever the initials, it's the same deal:  they're all PKK affiliated, they're all Kurdish and they're all aiming for creation of an autonomous Kurdish state, I guess. That they're secular sounding, egalitarian, leftists, doesn't necessarily mean they'll remain that way, should their statehood aims be reached. It's curious that the US has teamed up with such a leftist group; but from what I read elsewhere, it's part of some US grand plan for the region. What I don't understand is how the Kurdish side has been supported by governments that it has also been in conflict with (eg Iran).  Also, I don't understand their 'pro-West stance'. All of this is new to me, so this is a good starter article, I guess.

Kurds - PKK - Partiya Karkeren Kurdistane

KURDS - est. 30 million PKK (Partiya Karkerên Kurdistanê) PKK (Turkey, Iraqi Kurdistan) affiliates: YPG  - Syria + (all female militia:  YPJ) PJAK - Iran HPG - Iraq Kurdistan Workers' Party Turkey & Iraqi Kurdistan f. 1978 core group students:  led by Abdullah Öcalan ("Apo") in Ankara, Turkey far-left / sought: independent Kurdistan 30% of armed forces = women largely Russian arms NATO declared terrorist group Switzerland, China & Russia do not blacklist PKK Kurdish region / affiliates MAP source: http://aina.org/news/20150724184904.htm Former KGB-FSB officer Alexander Litvinenko {poisoned in 2006} claims: PKK's leader Abdullah Öcalan was trained by KGB-FSB. Danielle Mitterrand, wife of former President of France = had active connections 1990s with elements of PKK leadership. PKK has received various support from the following: >Greece >Iran >Iraq >Russia >Syria https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurdistan_Workers%27_Party Alleged Activities car-bombed Turkish cities kidnapped hundreds killed Turkish & Kurdish state employees significant narcotics traffickers (according to US) ruthlessly dispatch Kurdish political rivals in Syria & elsewhere [SOURCE:  Wikipedia   &   WSJ article]  OTHER: Appear to be highly politically organised / quick to demonstrate. Presently dual demonstration:  London (anti Turkey biased BBC coverage) & in Berlin.  --------------------- ARTICLE America's Marxist Allies Against ISIS http://aina.org/news/20150724184904.htm

Mark Bergfeld - On Germany’s decision to arm Iraqi Kurds

The Ultima Irratio: On Germany’s decision to arm Iraqi Kurds Mark Bergfeld is a writer and activist based in Cologne, Germany and London, UK. He tweets @mdbergfeld http://on.rt.com/vh0cok Published time: September 03, 2014 11:38 In Germany, every school child knows that September 1, 1939 marks the date of Hitler’s invasion of Poland. It is also the day that peace activists and campaigners celebrate World Peace Day, with demonstrations all over Germany. This year the German parliament ‘commemorated’ the beginning of World War II by debating whether to send armor-piercing weaponry to a battalion of 4000 Iraqi Kurds fighting ISIS. This is not a historic coincidence. This is the logical conclusion of the continuous militarization of German foreign policy since the invasion of Kosovo in 1999, and the war in Afghanistan in 2001. As former chancellor Willy Brandt would have put it: The ultima irratio! Merkel and four of her ministers had already decided to send weapons to Peshmerga fighters ahead of the parliamentary debate on Sunday evening. For this, she did not require approval from the German Bundestag. Seemingly, Merkel and co. did not care about the opinion polls either. These showed that 60 percent of the German population is against this form of military intervention. With parliament relegated to a debating chamber, and the German public to mere spectators, Merkel’s government is the first to send German arms into a warzone. But weapons exports are nothing new. Germany is the third largest weapons exporter in the world. While in recent years, Merkel has not been keen to bomb innocent children, the export of weaponry doubled between 2005 and 2009. Merkel’s government has supplied the State of Israel with arms against the Palestinians, and Saudis with tanks to crush the Bahraini uprising in 2011. Subsequent governments have always sought to prove themselves as reliable partners to the USA. Even when they have not supplied ground troops or military equipment, as with the US invasion of Iraq in 2003, German intelligence services willingly aided – and contributed to the destabilization of the Middle East. As much as politicians would like to cloak the export of heavy weaponry in the language of helping the oppressed Kurds nothing could be further from the truth. In the past, Germany has supplied Turkey - its close ally and NATO partner - with weaponry to crush the Kurdish PKK in Eastern Anatolia. No German or US government has ever stood with the Kurdish people in Turkey or Iraq until ISIS laid siege on the oil and gas fields in Northern Iraq. It is questionable whether Peshmerga fighters are up to the task. Recently, they abandoned the mountains when Yazidis sought refuge there. Instead the PKK/YPG had to step in to protect the Yazidis’ lives. A horror scenario for Germany and its allies which consider the PKK a terrorist organization. Kurdish Peshmerga troops participate in an intensive security deployment against Islamic State militants in a village on the outskirts of the province of Nineveh near the border province of Dohuk, August 9, 2014. (Reuters/Ari Jalal) Germany is unlikely to change its relation to the PKK any time soon - even though there are plenty of reasons to do so. Until this day, Turkey continues to facilitate the entry of European jihadists into Syria, closed its border to Iraqi and Syrian refugees and has been holding aid deliveries at the border for the last three weeks. Worried about the deep economic ties between Germany and Turkey, Merkel has not lost a word about it. By providing Peshmerga fighters with 40 machine guns, 10,000 hand grenades 30 Milan anti-tank missile systems equipped with 500 missiles, and five Dingo armored cars Germany is pouring fuel on to the flames. This will neither stop ISIS nor facilitate a peaceful solution in the region. Is the German government really that naïve to believe that the weapons will remain with Peshmerga fighters, not sold on to third parties or even captured by ISIS forces in combat? If Merkel were serious she would apply diplomatic pressure on to governments who currently buy oil and gas off ISIS. This would undermine ISIS economically, and peel away disenfranchised Sunni communities in Northern Iraq. Moreover, Germany could increase the aid for Yazidi, Christian and Shi’ia refugees fleeing ISIS terror. The €50 million in aid will not alleviate the plight of a hundred thousand refugees. Under the guise of “humanitarianism,” Germany supplies weapons worldwide. Yet, its immigration policy is anything but. While southern and eastern European states bear the brunt of the refugee crisis, Merkel’s government is yet to commit itself to lifting the cap on the number of Syrian and Iraqi refugees it welcomes. One would think that this would be the first step for such a “humanitarian” country! It appears the German political elite have forgotten many of the lessons of World War II. Even worse, they have forgotten the fact that the US invasion of Iraq in 2003 created the conditions for the rise of ISIS and this mess in the first place. War cannot be the solution. The ultima ratio would be to stop all weapons export. It necessarily would change the very fabric of German export-led growth, and also effect Germany’s bourgeoning role in the world. But it would also lay the foundation for peace. Source - RT News - here.

Another very interesting article.

Pasted it here for later review.

Lots of information.

Who is Joe Biden?

JOE BIDEN

Joseph Robinette Biden (Junior)

Vice President of the United States
Democratic Party

US Senator from Delaware 1973-2009
A former chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, dealing with issues related to drug policy, crime prevention, and civil liberties:

• Violent Crime Control
• Law Enforcement Act
• Violence Against Women Act

Biden has been heavily involved in Obama's decision-making process.

Biden’s ‘ability to negotiate with Congressional Republicans played a key role in bringing about the bipartisan deals ...

”Biden attended the University of Delaware in Newark, where he was more interested in sports and socializing than in studying, although his classmates were impressed by his cramming abilities.”

.... “Syracuse University College of Law ... receiving a half scholarship based on financial need with some additional assistance based in part upon academics.”

”Biden received five student draft deferments during this period, with the first coming in late 1963 and the last in early 1968 at the peak of the Vietnam War.”

“In April 1968, he was reclassified by the Selective Service System as not available for service due to having had asthma as a teenager.”

“Biden was generally supportive of the war during much of this time and never became part of the anti-Vietnam War movement; he would later say that at the time he was preoccupied with marriage and law school, and that he "wore sports coats ... not tie-dyed".”

”Regarding foreign policy, during his first decade in the Senate, Biden focused on arms control issues.”

Biden ... long-time member and former chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee.


BOSNIAN WAR

Lobbied for U.S. military  intervention during the Bosnian War.

”Biden was among the first to call for the "lift and strike" policy of lifting the arms embargo, training Bosnian Muslims and supporting them with NATO air strikes, and investigating war crimes.”

“Both the George H. W. Bush administration and Clinton administration were reluctant to implement the policy, fearing Balkan entanglement.” [AS IF ... LOL]

“Biden wrote an amendment in 1992 to compel the Bush administration to arm the Bosnians...”

“... deferred in 1994 to a somewhat softer stance preferred by the Clinton administration, before signing on the following year to a stronger measure sponsored by Bob Dole and Joe Lieberman.
 
SAY HELLO TO:

1995 NATO bombing campaign in Bosnia and Herzegovina

FOLLOWED BY:  Dayton Agreement.

“Biden has called his role in affecting Balkans policy in the mid-1990s his "proudest moment in public life" that related to foreign policy.”

“In 1999, during the Kosovo War, Biden supported the NATO bombing campaign against Serbia and Montenegro...

“... co-sponsored with his friend John McCain the McCain-Biden Kosovo Resolution, which called on President Clinton to use all necessary force, including ground troops, to confront Milosevic over Serbian actions in Kosovo.”

Biden ...

“NATO enlargement and the successful passage of bills to streamline foreign affairs agencies and punish religious persecution overseas.”

1991 – GULF WAR

Biden had voted against authorization for the Gulf War in 1991...said the U.S. was bearing almost all the burden in the anti-Iraq coalition.

2001 -  AFGHANISTAN WAR

Biden pro 2001 war in Afghanistan, saying:

"Whatever it takes, we should do it."

2002 - IRAQ

“Biden stated in 2002 that Saddam Hussein was a threat to national security, and that there was no option but to eliminate that threat.”

“The Bush administration rejected an effort Biden undertook with Senator Richard Lugar to pass a resolution authorizing military action only after the exhaustion of diplomatic efforts.”

“2002, Biden voted in favor of the Authorization for Use of Military Force Against Iraq, justifying the Iraq War.”

“While he soon became a critic of the war and viewed his vote as a "mistake", he did not push to require a U.S. withdrawal.”

“He supported the appropriations to pay for the occupation...”

“... argued repeatedly that the war should be internationalized, that more soldiers were needed, and that the Bush administration should "level with the American people" about the cost and length of the conflict.”

”By late 2006, Biden's stance had shifted, and he opposed the troop surge of 2007, saying General David Petraeus was "dead, flat wrong" in believing the surge could work.”

“Biden was instead a leading advocate for dividing Iraq into a loose federation of three ethnic states.”

“... 2006, Biden and Leslie H. Gelb, President Emeritus of the Council on Foreign Relations, released a comprehensive strategy to end sectarian violence in Iraq.”

“Rather than continuing the present approach or withdrawing, the plan called for "a third way":  federalizing Iraq and giving Kurds, Shiites, and Sunnis "breathing room" in their own regions.“

“2007 ..  a non-binding resolution passed the Senate endorsing such a scheme.

However, the idea was unfamiliar, had no political constituency, and failed to gain traction.”

“Iraq's political leadership united in denouncing the resolution as a de facto partitioning of the country, and the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad issued a statement distancing itself.”

LIBYA

'2004 - Biden secured the brief release of Libyan democracy activist and political prisoner Fathi Eljahmi, after meeting with leader Muammar Gaddafi in Tripoli.

2008 -  “Biden sharply criticized President George W. Bush for his speech to Israel's Knesset in which he suggested that some Democrats were acting in the same way some Western leaders did when they appeased Hitler in the runup to World War II.

Biden stated: "This is bullshit. This is malarkey. This is outrageous.

Outrageous for the president of the United States to go to a foreign country, sit in the Knesset ... and make this kind of ridiculous statement."

Biden later apologized for using the expletive. Biden further stated, "Since when does this administration think that if you sit down, you have to eliminate the word 'no' from your vocabulary?" '

[Source:  wikipedia]
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COMMENT



Council on Foreign Relations sounds like the US 'war house'.


Joe Biden sounds like a jock.

And he hasn't personally seen active military service -- or any military service.

But, hey, he's happy to make war -- and is proud of making war on foreign soil.



Some NGO turned charity ought to do a worldwide survey, asking:

Is Joe Biden the most hated man on the planet? 

If he can do deals with Republicans to get things done and if that's why he's so handy, he's got to be slime.

Not sure what the Israel-Knesset stuff even means.


Did notice that former General David Petraeus got a mention.

So Biden reckons he knows more than a general.

Must read the General David Petraeus Rolling Stone interview with Hastings.

Remember not thinking much about it at the time.  Not interested in politics or politics of war at the time.

However, I did feeling sorry for Petraeus ... I thought he let his guard down and it seemed like this 'intimacy' or whatever it was, was perhaps exploited.

The above isn't some statement about war sides or anything; I don't know about that.  It is just my initial impressions back then.

Anyway, no wonder Biden's got his snout stuck in Ukraine.  It's right down his alley.  LOL!