TURKEY’S PHONY INVASION OF IRAQ

Turkey Invades Northern Iraq blared headlines around the world last weekend (2/23-24).  Thousands of Turkish troops had crossed several miles into Iraq to "root out" PKK Kurdish guerrillas from their "mountain strongholds."

US Secretary of Defense Robert Gates traveled to Ankara yesterday (2/27) to "plead" with Turkish prime minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan to recall his army.  He was rebuffed. 

Here is a map of the Turkey-Iraq border.  It runs west-to-east or left-to-right from Syria (the triangle that Highway 6 runs through is Syria) to Iran.

Note the Turkish town of Cukurca.  This is the Turkish Army's staging point, where the invasion was launched, and from where, as CNN announced yesterday (2/27), Turkey Sends More Troops Into Iraq.  The farthest penetration of Turkish troops has been about 24 kilometers or 15 miles into Iraq in the area of the Iraqi village of Al Amadiyah.

Anyone who sees this map and knows where the PKK is based is instantly LOL – laughing out loud.  The PKK "stronghold" is in the Qandil mountains where Turkey, Iraq, and Iran come together – almost 100 miles by road or jeep track from Cukurca.

This is a phony invasion.  Check out this story in the Washington Post, whose eyewitness reporter states the Turkish troops can "go no farther" than 15 miles into Iraq, that the Turkish military has "targeted Kurdish civilians in villages that are often far from the bases of the [PKK] guerrilla group," and quotes an Iraqi Kurdish soldier:  The Turks "say there are PKK in this area, but actually the PKK are very far from here."

Why would the Turkish Army stage a Potemkin invasion of Iraq and pretend to attack the PKK?

To ramp up anti-Kurdish Turkish jingoistic nationalism while preserving the business deal the Turkish Army has with the PKK to run drugs.

Last April in The Kurdish Card in Turkey, you learned about the history of the PKK.  That in 1978 a KGB agent named Yevgeny Primakov set up a Marxist-Leninist "liberation movement" called the Kurdish Workers Party, known as the PKK (Kurdish initials for Partiya Karkerên Kurdistan) to destabilize Turkey.

The Turkish military fought back with incredible heartlessness.  Army "special war units" slaughtered tens of thousands of Kurds, wiped out hundreds of entire towns and villages off the map after indulging in mass rape and pillage.

With the collapse of the Soviet Union, the PKK steadily lost ground with its leader, Abdullah Öcalan, captured in 1999.  PKK remnants decided to propose an alliance with the "special war units" of the Turkish Army – to make drug money.

90% of the world's heroin is produced from opium poppies in Afghanistan.  The main heroin drug smuggling corridor from Afghanistan to Europe is operated by government/military networks in Pakistan, Iran, and Turkey in collusion with terrorist groups as the Taliban and the PKK.

Thus the PKK is the conduit between Iranian generals (mostly in the Pasdaran or Revolutionary Guard) and Turkish generals.  That's why the PKK's center of operations is where Turkey, Iran, and Iraq come together – and why the Turkish military is going no where near it.

All the while, the Turkish military uses the PKK as a scaremongering rationale for suppressing Kurdish freedoms — while allowing the PKK to suppress any competition as monopoly "spokesman" for Kurds in Turkey.

Funny how the lib media never explains this, isn't it?

But then, they never told you about the deal Nancy Pelosi made with the PKK in Damascus last year to encourage the destabilization of northern Iraq either.  You learned about it, though, in Pelosi and the PKK.

The lesson here is that, once again and so often, the news headlines and TV news clips are not really news at all – they are propaganda manufactured as red herring diversions from reality.

But then, you know this – for that's why you subscribe to TTP.