Hevallo,

Ok, so youre saying we've all been duped into believing that the PKK has ramped up its attacks against Turkey recently?

Are you also saying that the PKK did not cross the border into Turkey and ambush Turkish soldiers on the 21st of October?

I have been searching various Kurdish media websites ( in english, I dont speak any Kurdish and didnt want to quote anything in Turkish) for some other explanation, but from what I can see everybody is agreed that the ambush happened inside internationally recognized Turkish borders. Would be happy to be proved wrong...

So assuming that the PKK really attacked Turkish troops on Turkish soil from a base in Northern Iraq, what is the policy response? I guess there are 3 options for the PM Erdogan:

a) get the Iraqi Kurds and the Yanks to do something about it

b) bomb/ shell supposed sites in Northern Iraq.

c) invade northern iraq.

Have you noticed that "cede the south east of Turkey to Kurdistan" is not one of them, nor is "set Apo free from jail"? Not because these policies are necesairly bad ideas, but because its impossible for a democratically elected government to implement them after having lost soldiers to a cross border guerilla attack. And implementing them wouldnt necesarily stop the PKK from attacking again.

SO there are 2 important questions, 1) what does the government want to do? 2) what does the PKK want the turkish government to do?

Im pretty sure the right answers are 1) a 2) c .

What do you think?

cheerio