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Iran and Turkey join forces against the Kurds

Mar 19, 2019 11:00 am By Christine Douglass-Williams

Last year, 90,000 mosques prayed Qur’anic “conquest” prayers for victory against the Kurds, calling on Muslims to be “ruthless against unbelievers,” right before Erdogan’s thousands of soldiers were dispatched to “decimate” the Kurds.

Now the Turkish Interior Ministry has announced that Turkey and Iran have joined forces “against Kurdish separatist militants of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK).” Erdogan refers to Kurdish independence fighters as militants and terrorists, and has long aimed to destroy the historic culture and identity of the Kurds.

This new alliance between Iran and Turkey against the Kurds represents an escalation and troubling partnership between two major jihad-supporting countries, one Sunni and the other Shia.

The violent jihad against the Kurds, like so many others, remains largely unnoticed by the Western establishment media.

“Turkey and Iran Conduct Joint Mission Against Kurdish Militants in Iraq,” by John Hayward, Breitbart, March 18, 2019:

The Turkish Interior Ministry announced on Monday that Turkey and Iran carried out a joint operation against Kurdish separatist militants of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), with full results yet to be announced. The operation was apparently conducted in the Qandil mountains of Iraq’s Irbil province, about 25 miles from the Turkish border.

Daily Sabah noted on Monday that Iran also has a Kurdish militant organization, the Kurdistan Free Life Party (PJAK), which operates from the same area of Iraq and launches periodic operations across the border into Iran.

As far as the Turkish government is concerned, the PKK is a terrorist umbrella organization that includes most armed Kurdish groups in Syria and Iraq, including organizations like the Syrian YPG that have been officially allied with the United States against ISIS.

Turkey has occasionally bombed PKK bases in Iraq, and Iran has battled PJAK forces, but Monday’s raid is the first confirmed joint Turkish-Iranian operation against the PKK.

The Iraqi army reported clashes with PKK militants on Sunday, leading the Jerusalem Post to speculate that a triple Turkish-Iranian-Iraqi alliance against the Kurdish militants could be developing.

Such an alliance might have been inevitable ever since a brief ceasefire between Turkey and the PKK collapsed in 2015 and the tide of the Syrian civil war began to turn, leading to the announced withdrawal of American troops that served as a tripwire against Turkish assaults on the Syrian Kurds.

Among the politically awkward aspects of the anti-Kurdish crackdown is the presence of armed Yazidi groups in northern Iraq. The Yazidis are a tiny minority that was almost wiped out by the Islamic State, but found shelter with the Kurds, who helped them develop militia units to protect themselves in the future. At least one notable Yazidi leader has been accused by Turkey of joining the PKK…..

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  1. AnneM04031959 says

    Mar 19, 2019 at 11:18 am

    They are afraid of a people of a large nation: Kurdistan.

  2. mortimer says

    Mar 19, 2019 at 11:44 am

    THE GENOCIDE IS HERE! The UN must IMMEDIATELY PREVENT THIS.

    ARE ANY DIPLOMATS READING THIS???

    THE GENOCIDE AGAINST THE KURDS IS HERE !

    • LB says

      Mar 20, 2019 at 4:16 am

      You don’t seriously expect the sold-out Useless Nations that are in OIC pocket to lift a finger against their muslim masters now, do you? Remember, human rights go only one way — towards muslms. You can genocide any other group to your heart’s content as far as UN is concerned.

  3. Will says

    Mar 19, 2019 at 12:19 pm

    If Shia and Sunni will come together against the Kurds, would they not come together against us? Does the fact that Turkey is part of NATO have any bearing?

  4. Buraq says

    Mar 19, 2019 at 12:24 pm

    Turkey and Iran have collapsing economies. Deciding to prosecute a war against the Kurds will work in favor of the Kurds! Iran and Turkey don’t have the economic stamina to stay the course. The Kurds will eventually wear down these clowns.

  5. Niemoller says

    Mar 19, 2019 at 12:51 pm

    Why is Turkey such a coward nation of insecure Islamists? Take a clue from Czechoslovakia, it separated peacefully and everyone is now happier for the government separation and the cultural collaboration.

    • Guy Forester says

      Mar 19, 2019 at 1:55 pm

      Tyrants do not believe in any rights for their subjects to have any kind of choice, voice, or participation in governance. The role of the people is to do and/or die for the tyrant and of course, pay the taxes and graft that are inevitable.

      • Niemoller says

        Mar 19, 2019 at 2:03 pm

        True. I just realized I answered my own question. Turkey is insecure and cowardly because it is full of Islamists. I mean the Turkish rulers and supporters are moral cowards, no doubt they have many pigheaded jihadist suicide murderers among them.

  6. gravenimage says

    Mar 19, 2019 at 8:31 pm

    Iran and Turkey join forces against the Kurds
    ……………..

    Sunni and Shia get along just fine when they’re uniting to slaughter someone else…

  7. Georg says

    Mar 19, 2019 at 9:13 pm

    Here are the Peshmerga doing work on IS s*^#birds:

    • CRUSADER says

      Mar 19, 2019 at 9:16 pm

      “DEUS VULT!”

      +++++++++++

  8. CRUSADER says

    Mar 19, 2019 at 9:15 pm

    Ezekiel 38 NIV – The LORD’s Great Victory Over the – Bible Gateway
    https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Ezekiel+38&version=NIV

    The LORD’s Great Victory Over the Coalition of Nations – The word of the LORD came to me: “ Son of man, set your face against Gog, of the land of Magog…

  9. Mike Wilken says

    Mar 19, 2019 at 9:34 pm

    After the Kurds converted to Islam, Muslims were finally able to penetrate (and eventually destroy) ancient Christian communities, mis-named the Nestorians, in the northern mountains. Kurds also had their role in the early 20th century Christian genocide. The new generation of Kurds, how are they now different from other Muslims?

  10. tim vivek says

    Mar 20, 2019 at 11:51 am

    This is what the Idea behind demon in the last ditch. He wants his supremacy. World don,t be a watcher, work against this. Otherwise tomorrow you will be not there because of Islam and its slaughterhouse teaching.

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