Tuesday, August 23, 2011

Recently Turkey bombed some targets in Kurdish Iraq in retaliation for a PKK attack that killed some Turkish soldiers. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/44179345/ns/world_news-mideast_n_africa/ This article has some more info but I think its pretty biased towards Turkey. Multiple Kurdish civilians have died in the past few days as a result of Turkish bombings. I saw pictures of a family that was driving in a car that was bombed. The whole family died. It was gruesome. Today we will be traveling to the area where some of the bombings happened to attend a funeral and meet with some family of those who had died recently. What I find hard to understand is that a rebel group that is tagged as a "terrorist organization" attacks Turkish forces, kills some soldiers but doesn't harm civilians. Then Turkey retaliates, kills multiple civilians, but doesn't kill any members of the PKK. Which group sounds like a terrorist organization?

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