Israel Is A Terrorist State: Turkey PM

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120. Nobody powerful in that part of the world would want freedom for the Kurdish people.

The difference between Kurds and Palestinians is that the land the Kurds want for an independent state include land from Turkey, Syria, Iraq, and some segments of Iran bordering northern Iraq. None of those countries will tolerate a move towards an independent Kurdistan because it would stoke secessionist attitudes among Kurds living in any other bordering country. This is why Saddam gassed the Kurds; Assad sent army units to northern Syria in his current civil war to police the Kurds; and why Turkey has fought a homegrown guerrilla resistance in southern Turkey against Kurds for years.

Palestinians, for sure, are an oppressed group under the boot of a powerful regional military powerhouse, but they would be in truly dire straits if they had as many regional enemies as the Kurds. Most leaders in this part of the world are hypocritical about condemnations of Israeli actions in the West Bank and Gaza Strip.

They put on a good show of support for Palestinians; it's a good way to distract the locals from local problems and local oppression, but if you mentioned Kurdistan instead of Palestine, all of a sudden they adopt the same policy positions as far right wing nut jobs in Israel do: Their land belongs to us.