Turkishny.com news portal strongly condemns the latest terrorist attack in Çukurca, Hakkari near the Iraqi border, which killed 24 Turkish soldiers and wounded 18.
We consider the increase in the attacks of terrorist organization, which claims to be defending the rights of Kurdish people, meaningful as Turkey gets stronger and interferes the injust and tyranny in the region from Palestine to Somalia, from Libya to Syria and from Caucasus to Balkans.
We condemn the attacks of terrorist organization PKK, which can no way represent our Kurdish citizens to which we are connected with brotherhood and love for thousand years, and we offer our heartfelt condolences to the relatives and friends of the martyrs and to the Turkish nation.
We believe the infernal terrorist attacks will only serve for connecting each member of Turkish nation to each other stronger and we call Turkish American community to unity and solidarity.
The attacks by the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), was one of the bloodiest against the Turkish military and came 5 days after President Abdullah Gül visited the troops in a neighboring region. The attack caused both national and international outrage and condemnation of PKK terrorism. U.S. President Barack Obama condemned the incident, describing it as an "outrageous terrorist attack". NATO Secretary General Rasmussen also condemned the attack "in the strongest terms" on the official NATO website.
A day before the attack, a PKK roadside bomb claimed the lives of 5 police officers and 4 civilians -including a two year old girl, near Bitlis. The Turkish Parliament will hold an extraordinary general meeting to discuss the surge in PKK attacks in the Southeastern region.
The PKK is a terrorist organization according to the laws of the United States, Turkey and Western European countries. In 2010, the United States Supreme Court held that any type of support to the PKK constitutes a violation of United States anti-terror laws. The US Court of Appeals for the 6th Circuit held that the PKK was a racist organization that persecutes people who are not Kurdish as well as Kurds who do not support the PKK's violent agenda. The US Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit held that Turkey's military and police actions against the PKK are not ethnic-based and constitute legitimate anti-terror operations.
The PKK has caused the deaths of over 30,500 people, including Americans, since 1984. The PKK has caused hundreds of millions of property damage to Turkey and its allies. The PKK claims to represent Kurds, but includes a sliver of 5000 or more radicals and militants. Mainstream Turkish citizens of Kurdish heritage, who contribute to Turkey's rich diversity of over 30 ethnic groups and 75 million people, do not support the PKK and do not support violence. There has never been apartheid, segregation, or statute based discrimination against Turkish citizens of Kurdish heritage. The vast majority of Turkish Kurds have integrated with the diverse ethnicity of Turkey and significantly contribute to Turkey's economic, political, and cultural strength.
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