24/8/11

Stop labelling PKK-fighters as terrorists | Journalist in Turkey

Stop labelling PKK-fighters as terrorists | Journalist in Turkey, background articles, news and weblog about Turkey and Istanbul: "
Published on: Tuesday 23 Aug 2011, 10:08 by Fréderike Geerdink in Army, Hoofdartikel, Human Rights, Judiciary, Kurds, Politics, Stories, Violence
Published in: daily paper nrc.next, oped-page, August 2011
Turkey is bombing PKK camps in Northern-Iraq in retaliation for the killing of soldiers by the PKK. The first civilian deaths have been reported. The EU doesn’t protest the violence, because the PKK is on the EU list of terrorist organizations. But the label ‘terrorist’ contributes to maintaining the crux of the problem, which is the still unsolved Kurdish issue. It’s about time we stopped referring to PKK fighters as ‘terrorists’."

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