A Turkish Demo against PKK: "It was sad and pathetic"!

Published: November 7, 2007, 4:09 am

Tags: turkish demonstration turkey kurds terrorism terrorist freedom fighter pkk kurdistan

Saturday, November 3rd: Today I went to the "Turkish anti P.K.K"(Kurdish Workers Party) protest in Times Square. It was kind of a sad affair. (For them).There were some screechy speeches about how the P.K.K. has killed so many Turkish citizens, with interludes of loud Fascist music, (but no mention that most of the 37 thousand dead were killed by the Turkish State, over three thousand Kurdish villages destroyed and three million Kurdish people forced from their land with no compensation). However, the bigger message which was clearly the point of the whole thing, was about America (and Europe's) perception and press coverage of the Kurdish/P.K.K. issue. Speaker after speaker railed against the use of the words "rebel" "separatist" and "guerilla" in the Western press. One of the speakers shouted in outrage: "When talking about the P.K.K. they must always say terrorist"."Then he went on and on trying to compare the P.K.K. to Al Queda and insisting they are exactly the same. One of the

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