DISPATCHING PKK TROOPS IN KARABAKH INSENSIBLE
By H. Chaqrian, translated by A.M.
AZG Armenian Daily #223
04/12/2007
Armenia-Turkey
Turkey, Blinded with Illusions, Efforts to Chantage Armenia
Turkish press has some kind of habit of accusing Armenia for
anti-Turkish actions from time to time.
The accusations for the most part are grounded with anti-Turkish
conspiracies ascribed to Armenia.
This time the Turks chose to speak about "negotiations between PKK
troops, suffering from unfavorable positions in North Iraq, and
the Armenian authorities about new deployment bases". On December 3
"Zaman" newspaper publiched an article on this subject with a header
of that sort, having as background a similar publication by "Aksam".
In sense of spreading dubitable information "Aksam" is a rather
convenient newspaper, and is usually used for such matters by
the authorities of Turkey, who prefer to "spare" more serious mass
media. "Zaman", in its turn, is more cautious about slandering Armenia,
in despite of being published in Azerbaijan, too.
In any case, according to "Zaman", the PKK troops were forced to
leave North Iraq under the pressure of Turkey’s military operations,
after which a number of PKK commanders, Armenians by origin, decided
to head to South Caucasus and take cover in Karabakh, "occupied by
Armenia". Turkish intelligence, allegedly, succeeded to discover
these plans.
Moreover, "Zaman" states that the PKK has established contact with
Armenian Diaspora organizations, which promised to take the PKK
members to some country in Europe and from there transport them to
Nagorno-Karabakh. It is also said that the authorities of Armenia
house Kurd immigrants from Syria and Lebanon on the territory of
NKR and permits PKK to spread among them their newspapers and to
broadcast radio.
It is explained that President of Turkey Abdullah Gul, during his visit
to Caucasus in November 2007, took promises of Mikhail Saakashvili and
Ilham Aliev to prevent PKK actions in South Caucasus. In the meanwhile
a legislation bill on prevention of Kurdish invasion to Azerbaijan
was submitted to "Milli Meclis", the parliament of Turkey. The bill
is to be discussed one of these days.
Obviously, these explanations have nothing to do with the alleged
Armenia-PKK contacts. The "explanations" speak rather about Turkey’s
efforts to consolidate Southern Caucasian states against PKK. Having
no opportunity of including Armenia in this alliance, Turkey finds
nothing better to do than blackmailing Armenia. Naturally, the Turkish
authorities also seek to defame Armenia by its connection to PKK,
which is considered by Turks a separatist and a terrorist organization.
How Armenia can benefit from deploying PKK forces in Nagorno-Karabakh
and against whom the PKK militants are to struggle there remains
a mystery. We have no idea whether the Government of Turkey has
answers to those questions. One thing is certain: both the Armenian
and the Kurdish questions are matters of great importance for Turkey,
and issues of big politics.
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress
