The impending Turkish march into northern Iraq/Kurdistan seems to be getting everybody nervous – in Berlin of all places. “Emotional unrest†is growing between the city’s two favorite laugh-a-minute ethnic groups and came to a boil over the weekend when violence broke out between nationalist Turks and Kurdish rebels in Kreuzberg.
The losers of the first skirmish: The Berlin police department, 18 to 15 (18 injured policemen, 15 arrests). And the cops are sure that this is just the start of something much bigger (but they always are). We are nowhere near the payoffs, in other words, much less finals.
But they should have smelled a rat ahead of time on this one, I think. These clashes took place at the end of a demonstration which had been given the taunting title of “Unity and Brotherhood between Turks and Kurdsâ€. Talk about a provocation. That kind of unity and brotherhood crap makes my blood boil just hearing it and I’ve never even been to Turkey, much less Kurdistan, wherever that is. This week, I mean.
I have also heard from unreliable sources that certain other unnamed and unreliable local “operatives” are considering handing out comic books before the next demonstration in a vain attempt to cool things down a bit. And these aren’t Mickey-Maus-Hefte, either.
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2 users commented in " Turks and Kurds and Cops, Oh My! "
Follow-up comment rss or Leave a Trackback“nationalist Turks and Kurdish rebels”? this is the paradox. How can two ethnic groups live in the same city in Europe, one of them be called Nationilaist and the other rebels? Why not terrorists? it is easier right?
What a Bias!
Another crappy german apologist point of view that manages to put blame on the Bozkurt youth just because they have some sort of problem with their history. THAT’S THE DIFFERENCE deutschland !….
WE didn’t lose!… enemy soldiers didn’t change the racial composition OF OUR COUNTRY, our sacredness is not flattened under the feet of occupation armies.
So when the Gray Wolves are screaming they are >, believe me, we ain’t lying.
So go back and try to confabulate that German police going after NDP is within the grace of democracy and not politically motivated, that germany, USA or any other country in the world has any moral authority to pass judgements. Go on, run after the dream of Turdistan or whatever…..
All the backstabbing and (not so) secret help to childkiller terrorists deserves a medal of “champion of exercise in futility” and nothing else.
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