Security organization slams Kurdish party

Published: 10/24/2007

The Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs says Turkey is
justified in quashing Kurdish separatists.

In a report published on its Web site, JINSA said Turkey’s actions are
justified because the Kurds are unwilling to acknowledge that the
Kurdistan Workers Party, known as the PKK, was a terrorist
organization.

"Defenders of the PKK sound like Palestinians who don’t want to be
associated with Hamas or Fatah or the Palestinian Islamic Jihad, but
won’t do anything about them," the report said. "The Kurds vehemently
protest that they are NOT like the Palestinians. But, sadly, now they
are."

Turkey began conducting cross-border reprisals this week against
militants operating from the Kurdish territory of northern Iraq. The
raids, which the United States is working to contain, are perceived in
part as a response to a proposed congressional resolution recognizing
the World War I massacres of Armenians as genocide.

The resolution has split the Jewish community, with some arguing that
Jews are morally obliged to support recognition of another people’s
genocide, while others caution of the potential damage to Turkish ties
with Israel and the United States.

JINSA opposes the resolution as harmful to American security interests
and has communicated that position to congressional leaders.

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