Does the Turkish State have the Capacity to overcome the Kurdish Militant group PKK's attacks while the Western states continue to support it?
BY
IHSAN AKTAS
FEB
20, 2021
Although
some call it the age of space, the present age is still unnamed. According to
Western political thought, the economic development of countries will conclude
with unprecedented prosperity and peace around the world.
The
highest rates of suicides, however, belong to those countries that are
economically most developed. During the corona virus pandemic, Western
developed countries performed poorly.
Economic
development can provide technological superiority but is not enough to ensure
the happiness or the well-being of humanity.
Apart
from pandemics, wars and terrorism constitute the human-made calamities in the
world.
After
the end of World War II, political leaders of all nations pledged to prevent
the reoccurrence of such an international calamity that devastated the lives of
millions of people.
Yet,
even after the end of the Cold War, humanity still struggled against civil
wars, genocides, racism, xenophobia, Islamophobia and terrorism.
In
one of the main tenets of Islam, the Quran unequivocally states that “whoever
killed a person ... it shall be as if he had killed all humankind.”
Proxy
dangers
In
the present international arena, interstate wars are rare. Instead, global and
regional players in the international system support terrorist organizations in
their proxy wars.
After
the end of the Cold War, the U.S. declared its war on global terror, which was
defined as "Islamic terror." Emerging from the American struggle
against the Soviet occupation in Afghanistan, al-Qaida was one of the first
examples of a global terrorist organization.
During
the Syrian civil war, the U.S. administration declared its war against the
murderous Daesh, which served as a pretext for the American intervention
in the region.
Meanwhile,
Iran took the stage in Iraq and Syria with its own murderous terrorist
organization, Hashd al-Shaabi (Popular Mobilization Forces – PMF).
For
the last four decades, Turkey has been struggling against PKK terrorism.
Inspired by the radical “power of violence” theory, which prescribes that the
passive Eastern peoples should be forced to revolution by the use of violence;
the PKK emerged via its terrorist attacks on Kurdish peasants and moderate
Kurdish groups.
Battle
on terror
Recently,
during Turkey’s military operation in northern Iraq, the PKK terrorists
murdered 13 innocent Turkish citizens who were being held captive in a cave in
the Gara region.
The
PKK is a separatist and Stalinist terrorist group that has been supported and
armed by the U.S. in Syria.
Ironically,
Iran actively supports the PKK, while Russia backs up the terrorist group
tacitly. As the U.S continues to treat the PKK as an ally in Syria, some
Western European countries provide a safe haven for the terrorists.
As
a great nation, the Turkish state has the capacity to overcome the murderous
threats of the PKK's terrorism. What is unfortunate is that the so-called
democratic Western states continue to support terrorism as long as it is not directed
against them.
Original
headline: Reminder to the West: Terrorism's archenemy is humanity
Source:
Daily Sabah
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