{"id":16854,"date":"2015-07-25T18:40:22","date_gmt":"2015-07-25T18:40:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.aaeurop.com\/?p=16854"},"modified":"2015-07-25T18:40:22","modified_gmt":"2015-07-25T18:40:22","slug":"turkey-lauches-war-on-islamic-states-worst-enemies-the-kurds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.aaeurop.com\/?p=16854","title":{"rendered":"Turkey Lauches War On Islamic State’s Worst Enemies – The Kurds"},"content":{"rendered":"

Additionally the AKP lost in the recent elections in Turkey while the Kurdish HDP party, for the first time in its history, joined the Turkish parliament. Without a solid parliamentary majority Erdogan’s plan of becoming the almighty president over a larger, Ottoman Turkey<\/a> is finished.<\/p>\n

To change the situation Erdogan decided to reopen the war against the Kurds under the disguise of joining the U.S. war against the Islamic State.<\/p>\n

On July 20 a bomb exploded during a meeting of young socialist Kurds in the southern border town of Suru\u0569\u0083\u0539\u00ab. Some thirty people were killed and over a hundred wounded. Turkey immediately attributed the attack to the Islamic State but IS never claimed the attack. The Kurdish PKK immediately blamed the Turkish state and accused it of collusion with the Islamic State. The next day the PKK killed two Turkish police officers in revenge for the bombing.<\/p>\n

Last year secret audio tapes leaked<\/a> of conversations between the Turkish prime minister and the head if the Turkish secret service. They planned a false flag attack against Turkish targets as a pretext to invade Syria. The PKK assumption that Turkey colluded with the Islamic State to attack Kurds in Turkey is thereby quite plausible. The claimed<\/a> “intelligence failure” that allowed the attack seems to be a mere smoke screen. The attack gives Turkey a public relation talking point that it is fighting the Islamic State<\/a> while in reality Turkey is attacking those Kurds who are fighting the Islamic State.<\/p>\n

On Wednesday Turkish police raided hundreds of homes all over the country. The mass arrests was sold as an action against Islamic State fighters. But beside a few well known IS functionaries hundreds of Kurdish activists and leftists politicians were taken<\/a> into custody. Demonstrations and riots by Kurds in Istanbul and other cities increased. Today Turkish courts banned Kurdish news agencies and media. Turkish media and the Internet in Turkey are again partially censored<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Why would Erdogan now launch a war against the Kurds? What are his aims? These come to mind:<\/p>\n