Kurdish rebels launch missile attack on Turkish police building

[Barrett808]

Members of the outlawed Kurdish Workers' Party (PKK) attacked a police department building in southeastern Turkey on Friday, causing no casualties, the semi- official Anatolia news agency reported.

The report said that the PKK rebels attacked the police building in Idil town of Diyarbakir province with two missiles around 5.30 p.m. local time (1530 GMT).

One of the missiles hit the wall of the building, while the other hit the kitchen of the police chief's residence where there was nobody in it at that time.

Turkish security forces immediately returned fire and a large- scale operation was underway in the region.

More than 37,000 people have been killed since the rebel group took up arms for self-rule in the mainly Kurdish southeastern Turkey in 1984.

http://www.kurdmedia.com/news.asp?id=10697

[BillZBubb]

1. This will be interesting when the Kurds from Iraq join up.

Once the Iraqi Kurds get their independence thanks to the Busholini invasion, they'll ally themselves with the Turkish Kurds. Then the real shooting starts.

[phillysuse]

2. The Domino Theory

It's the Domino Theory - destabilize one country and the next one falls victim to destabilization.

[Toots]

7. Actually the Domino Theory was about Communist expansion

not about destabilization. What appears to be going on in Turkey has been ongoing now since 1984 the article said. It is about Independence not Anarchy.

[cantstandbush]

3. And we wonder why Saddam was so brutal to them? n/t

[expatriot]

4. wtf? surely a small rebel attack on a police station doesn't justify....

...Saddam's Reagan administration-backed brutal suppression of the Kurds, which what it seems you are implying. Such implied statements make it sound like you are an apologist for Saddam's brutality.

No injustice on Bush's part can make Saddam just, IMHO.

[EFerrari]

5. I wonder if Rumsfeld believes he can take Turkey.

And, we should be concerned for the Kurds. Their situation is a disaster waiting to happen. Or, not waiting. :(

[xchrom]

6. destabilization in the mideast makes the u.s.

stronger.

or some such fucked up thinking like that.

anyway -- the turks through their brutal treatment of minorities bring stuff like this on themselves.