Kurdistan Workers

Turkey, adze and the West

Dictionaries describe adze as a cutting tool shaped somewhat like an axe that dates back to the Stone Age. They are used for smoothing or carving wood by hand, similar to an axe but with cutting edge perpendicular to the handle - a peculiarity because of which it is often used in only self-serving attitudes.

Declaration of mobilization no joke

The supreme leader of Turkey declared at a routine congregation of village headmen at his extravagant palace that he had decided to declare a national mobilization against the separatist Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) gang and its extensions under various names, the radical Islamic State of Iraq and Levant (ISIL) zealots as well as the "Fethullah Terror Gang" (FETÖ) and the Revolutionary People

A humorist as prime minister

The country has been passing through such horrible days that perhaps it would be great to have humorists occupying governmental seats. Even if there might be a president acting as if he has become a sultan or emperor, no one of course can claim that the prime minister and other ministers have started acting like imperial jokesters.

Turkey, NATO and a very dangerous discussion

One of the penslingers of the government was on TV during Eid al-Adha. Constantly rubbing his Islamist-style beard, the penslinger was explaining what kind of a wild animal the separatist Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) was, how it has been tolerated and indeed abetted by the United States, Germany, Britain and many other "key allies" of Turkey in the North Atlantic Treaty Organization.

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