“The US and the European Union are implicated in Turkey’s state terrorism, through supporting the Turkish government’s implementation of a border regime on the lands of minority populations, such as the Kurds,” she said.
“These inhumane attacks have been normalised over several decades they have led to consistent and violent instability in the region. With US and EU support, the Turkish state uses the Syrian and Iraqi airspace as it wishes, invades the lands of its neighbours and commits inhumane acts and violations outside its borders.”
The Trump administration had approved the Erdoğan government’s invasion of Rojava, Shengal, Makhmur and the whole of SouthernKurdistan and now the Biden administration is doing the same.
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On April 20, the State Department renewed multimillion-dollar bounties on three senior leaders of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK): Cemil Bayık, Duran Kalkan, and Murat Karayılan. Bayık and Karayılan are founding members of the PKK and Kalkan is a senior commander.
The Kurdish freedom movement sees these men as instrumental in the defeat of ISIS, but to some this is no recommendation. Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdoğan would rather hit the Kurds than the Islamic State. In renewing the bounties, the State Department has given him tacit permission to attack Kurdish democratic movements in Iraq, Syria, and Turkey, since according to Erdogan they are all really PKK.
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