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"The Kurds: Turkey's Palestinians"
What if Israel sent aid shipments to the Kurdish separatist groups in Turkey? How would Turkey respond to an attack on her sovereignty like that?
There is no way to know 100%, but Turkey is not exactly known for empathizing with its enemies. Despite facing a much smaller threat
from Kurdish separatists than Israel does from Hamas, Turkey fights these Kurds with a unique fierceness. From 1984 to 2008,
over 35,000 Kurds were killed by the Turkish military. In fact, one of the main reasons that Turkey is friends with Israel and
WILL CONTINUE to be friends with Israel is because Israel supplies the secular, Turkish Army with invaluable high-tech
weapons with which to fight their own terrorists.
For those unfamiliar with Kurds:
Kurds are a distinct ethnic group of the Middle East (Do not call them Arabs.) They are overwhelmingly Sunni Muslims. They live in a state they call "Kurdistan" which is actually part of four other
border sharing Middle East states: Iraq, Iran, Turkey, and Syria. The only reason the Kurds in Iraq have a de-facto state is because the US
invaded Iraq in 2003 and liberated the Kurds. The Kurds in Iraq gained the most from the US war. However, the Kurds in Iran, Turkey, and Syria have not only
NOT been given a state by their Arab bretheren, they are routinly attacked and captured in military operations by Iran and Turkey.
Turkey and Iran love to whine about the Palestinian state, but dont you DARE ever mention "Freeing Kurdistan" the way the "Free Gaza"
flotilla did.
If there is one thing the Middle East is all about, its hypocrisy. Turkey and Iran whine about Israel not giving the Palestinians a state,
and keep Suppressing the Kurds. Syria whines about Israels military operation in Gaza, where maybe 1,200 were killed, when in 1982 Syria killed 40,000 of its own people
with cyanide gas to suppress a terrorist uprising by the Muslim brotherhood. One must look past the words of these Arab countries
and look to their actions.
We may never know how Turkey would react to Israel sending aid shipments to Kurds of Turkey, because Israel wouldnt infringe on
an ally's sovereignty like that. However, Turkey can not even come to grips with the Armenian genocide they presided over.
If you mention the Armenian Genocide in Turkey you can be killed, and many who have spoke out have been killed. Not a nation
that values tolerance. The only reason Turkey probably wouldnt cut off relations with Israel if they sent a flotilla to Kurdistan is
because as said, Turkey needs Israel's high tech military gadgets to fight their own bloodier war with terrorists than Israel conducts.
It would be funny if it wasnt the truth that Israel needs to deal with every day. Israel needs to stand strong and not accept any threats
to their sovereignty, especially in the realm of fighting terror. No one asked Turkey too.
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