Kurdish Perspective: NO to Turkey´s ‘Buffer Zone’ in West Kurdistan!
Biting, possibly very accurate criticism of Turkey's role in past and present ME conflicts
http://kurdistantribune.com/2014/no-turkeys-buffer-zone-west-kurdistan/
Using the West´s and NATO´s resources against the Kurdish liberation movement has been a Turkish specialty. Turkey successfully used the Cold War´s political balance to suppress the Kurdish nation in a savage way whose only historical parallel is classical early European colonialism: for instance the exploitation of Congo by King Leopold or the early Spanish and Portuguese conquests of Latin America more than 500 years ago.
The barbaric atrocities of today´s ISIS/ IS (Islamic State) is a repeat of the same atrocities that the Turks committed against Armenians, Assyrians, Kurds and others. As recently as the 1990s Turkish soldiers were posing with the heads of Kurdish guerrillas they had beheaded. Even Kurdish gravestones have been desecrated by Turkish officials on many occasions.
However, factors such as Mr. Gorbachev´s Perestroika and Glasnost (Restructuring, Openness and Transparency), the end of the classic Cold War, collapse of State-Socialism, expansion of Western Europe and NATO, and overthrow of many dictatorships in the Middle East and around the world stripped Turkey of many of its Cold War privileges.
Even though Turkey didn’t participate in either the 1991 Gulf War / Operation Desert Shield or the 2003 Coalition of the Willing it was nevertheless a great beneficiary of these wars due to its opportunistic standpoint and deliberate troublemaking. The weakness of Iraq and Syria has further pushed the Turks to have the ambition to become a superpower of the greater Middle East.
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