Hi folks. I have been very involved in the recent Turkish invasion of Northern Syria, watching it very closely for weeks now, and I have accumulated a huge amount of data about it. Of course I am completely against the Turkish state, which I despise, and of course I support the Kurds in Syria in addition to the Kurds in Turkey, Iraq and Iran.
I even support the PKK, and armed group that is waging an insurgency against the Turkish state that Turkey considers to be a terrorist group. I have talked to some people who are deeply involved in the Kurdish freedom movement, including some who know an awful lot about the PKK.
The PKK has massive support among Kurds. 80% of the Kurds in Eastern Turkey support the PKK. 50% of the Kurds in Western Turkey support the PKK. All together, 68% of Turkish Kurds support the PKK. There are also a few Turks who support the PKK, but the number is not large.
If you all would like me to write more about this Turkish-Kurdish conflict, I would very happy to, as I have a ton of material I can put up here, most of which you won’t find anywhere else.
What do you say? Want to see posts on this current event?
Here is the video that was shown to President Trump and US senators by President Erdogan yesterday during their meeting at the White House.
The video details the massacres committed by the terrorist code named Mazloum Kobane. pic.twitter.com/KFexW9hvMy
— Fahrettin Altun (@fahrettinaltun) November 14, 2019
Very bad propaganda.
In case you are wondering, Racip Erdogan, the monstrous Turkish president who nevertheless has mass support among Turks, is the man who launched the invasion into Northern Syria. He conquered quite a bit of Syrian land, and for all intents and purposes, he has annexed it to Turkey.
He also invaded Syria two other times in recent years, killing many Kurds and conquering vast swathes of sovereign Syrian territory which Turkey has also for all intents an purposes occupied these lands and is even settling them with its own people. It is also “Turkifiying” all three of these areas.
The areas are the Afrin Pocket, the area north of Manbij occupied in Operation Olive Branch (all of Turkey’s military onslaughts have the most insane Orwellian names), and the most recent conquered area in Raqqa and Hasakeh Provinces from Tel Abyad to Serenkaye and south towards Ain Issa and Tel Tamer.
Turkey has used a jihadist army composed mostly of former Al Qaeda, ISIS, etc. Islamist jihadist types backed up by Turkish military tanks, artillery, bombers, and drones. Turkish forces have committed many atrocities and war crimes in the course of this invasion.
In addition, Turkey is looting these newly conquered territories, stealing everything of value in the conquered lands, cleaning out people’s houses and confiscating any industrial operations or machinery it can find. Turkey also looted the two previous areas bare.
The Kurds fled in all of these areas, and the Turks resettled the first two areas with Turkmen and Arabs. So Turkey is engaging in population transfer and what boils down to ethnic cleansing exactly like what happened in the Balkans. Most of the Kurds are ethnically cleansed and then Turkmen and Arab settlers are moved into the stolen Kurdish homes.
The SDF, an army composed mostly of the YPG Syrian Kurdish Army along with some Arab, Armenian, and Assyrian militias, has been fighting the Turks.
Yes, a number of local Arabs have taken up arms against the Turks. Many Syrian Arabs absolutely despise Turks, especially the Arabs in Northeastern Syria. These Arabs refer to Turks as Ottomans, and they hate Turks with a passion. Recall that the Ottoman Empire used to own all of Syria as a colony. Syria broke free from Ottoman colonialism after World War 1 with the breakup of the Ottoman Empire.
Syria was then promptly colonized by France, which is another matter. The French are not nearly as hated in Syria as the Turks are.
Assyrians and Armenians both hate Turks because the Turks tried to genocide both groups.
The Armenian Genocide occurred ~1915. In that year and in the ensuing years until 1923, fully 2.3 million Armenians were massacred. 1.9 million were killed in 1915 alone. If we throw in another genocide in 1882, we add 200,000, so the total number of Armenians genocided by the Turks in a 40 year period is 2.5 million!
Armenians did kill some Turks starting in 1916. All killings were in revenge for the 1915 genocide. Between 1916-1923, Armenians killed 75,000 Turks.
2.5 million Armenians genocided unprovoked. 75,000 Turks killed in retaliation. Which is worse?
From 1915-1923, Turks also genocided the Greeks. They murdered 725,000 Greeks in this period. Greeks did kill a few Turks in response, but the number was small, only 15,000.
Around the same time, ~750,000 Assyrians were also genocided by the Turks. I haven’t studied this genocide well yet, but I will get around to it.
If you have your thinking cap on, you will realize that all of these groups are Christians. And Turks are Muslims. All of these genocides were launched as exterminationist Islamic jihads against the infidel Christians, and many of the crimes the Turks committed against these groups had that flavor to them, similar to the manner of the ISIS anti-infidel attacks.
So the Armenians and Assyrians despise Turks and have joined the SDF to fight for their lands.
There is so much more to this story, but I will stop for now.
Erdogan recently came to visit President Trump. Trump reveres and respects Erdogan as a fellow authoritarian leader. Some Republican Congressmen met with Erdogan along with Trump. Erdogan played this pathetic war propaganda anti-PKK video for Trump.
White House aides laughed at the video and said a 10 year old could have done better. That’s true, but almost all Turkish anti-PKK propaganda is horrifically and comically awful. I can’t see why anyone would fall for this transparent nonsense. But most Turks lap this stuff up like cats with milk. Go figure.
Anyway Trump was said to be extremely impressed by this video, and he now has a lot of sympathy for Erdogan’s war against the PKK.
I know a lot about this matter now, so I analyzed this video to see if there was anything to it. I researched all of these attacks to see if there was anything to the accusation that they were done by the PKK. I also checked to see if they were even terrorism in the first place. The results are below. You can follow along with the attacks as they are portrayed in the video.
- October 5, 1993: 35 killed in an attack on a village in SE Turkey. The Yavi Massacre. PKK went into coffeshops and killed Kurds who were watching TV. This is the only terrorist crime here actually connected to the PKK. For the life of me though, I really want to know why the PKK would rampage into one of their own Kurdish villages and massacre a few dozen of their own Kurdish people, while sitting in a coffeehouse watching TV nonetheless. If the PKK did this crime, I really want to know why.
- 313 Turkish soldiers killed. Legitimate targets.
- 1991-1995: Attacks on 29 police stations. 5 civilians killed. Obviously collateral damage. Police stations were legitimate targets.
- 1996: Rocket attack on minibus in Cukura, Hakkari killed 17. Minibus was full of village guards. Legitimate targets.
- July 16, 2005: Attack on tourists at Izmir. Claimed by the TAK Falcons.
- 2006: Another attack on tourists, this time in Antalya. Claimed by Kurdistan Falcons.
- July 27, 2008: One of the Istanbul attacks, this one in Gungoren, Istanbul. Bombs in two trash cans kill 17 civilians. PKK specifically stated that they had nothing to do with this attack. Attack remains unclaimed by anyone. No one knows who planted those bombs.
- August 26, 2008: Attack kills 13 policemen. Legitimate targets.
- September 20, 2011: Attack on housing for Turkish government employees in Istanbul. Yes, an elementary school was across the street, but that was not a target. This attack was morally hazy as it’s unclear if Turkish government employees are valid targets and the placing of the bomb in a crowded city means the possibility of significant civilian casualties. Claimed by the Kurdistan Falcons.
Awful video. Nine “terror attacks or series of attacks” were listed.
- Four were not terrorism at all and instead were attacks on Turkish army, police, and village guards. Legitimate targets. Not terrorism.
- One of those involved collateral damage deaths to five civilians. Collateral damage. Not terrorism.
- Two were terrorist attacks on tourist destinations. Claimed by the Kurdistan Falcons. PKK has nothing to do with the radical Falcons. Not done by PKK.
- One was an attack on Turkish government housing in Istanbul. Dubious whether this is terrorism or not. At any rate, it was claimed by the Kurdistan Falcons.
- One terrorist attack on a public street in Istanbul. Never claimed by anyone. PKK denied responsibility. Perpetrator unknown.One apparent terrorist attack by the PKK 26 years ago when the PKK was engaging in a lot of shady tactics. It’s still not known why the PKK would slaughter a village full of Kurdish civilians.
Out of the nine incidents or series of incidents, four or five were not terrorism.
Out of the nine incidents or series of incidents, four or five were not terrorism.
Of the four clear terrorist attacks, two were claimed by the Falcons, one was done by an unknown perpetrator, and one was done by the PKK.
Out of nine “terror cases” listed, only one was done by the PKK and that was 26 years ago. The PKK renounced such tactics a decade ago.
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Asians can be cruel in a cold way. I believe most the workers on the Great Wall of China were placed inside a structure and left to die. I know Turks are primarily ancient Anatolian, but they’ve got more Asian roots than their neighbors. Turks remind me of WWII era Japanese, trying to catch up with Europeans via their much later and crueler colonialism.
Great comment. You are one insightful guy!
Yes Turks are 93% Anatolian White. Only 7% Asian. There is a group of people called “White Turks” who are even Whiter than that. They make up ~35-40% of the population. They are as White as you or I am. Mostly descendants of Slavs taken as male slaves for the army or female, sex slaves I guess.
Also a lot of Circassians in there. The phrase Circassian beauties comes from the Turkish habit of raiding White Circassia to steal their women and turn them into sex slaves for the Muslims or whatever it is they do with infidel woman captives. Some of these women were definitely added to harems. The harems of the Ottoman Turkish rulers or sultans, sometimes with hundreds of women, were mostly composed of White women.
There are also groups of people called White Arabs and White Berbers. Apparently they are as White as you or I also. Now I think that most Arabs and many Berbers are pretty much White anyway, these people are real, real White.
There was a site called Pan-Aryanism on the Net for a while. Of course they were a bunch of Nazis, but they also had this idea of White Turks, White Arabs, and White Berbers. They also said that Iranians, people of the Caucasus and Armenians were simply White people.
I really dug that attitude of theirs. Widen the tent and invite a lot more people to the party, right? The White party. I figure if you are going to be a racist, you may as well hate the fewest number of people possible, right?
I’m interested in Ummayad harems aswell. What harems had in common is a preference for lighter skinned women. I’m pro-White, pro-IE, and pro-European. Like three harem girls.
Levantine Arab divisions. How would you divide them up? A Lebanese more Phoenician, a Syrian more Assyrian, ect.
Of course.
Canaanite Palestinian, Ancient Jewish Israelite, and Phoenician Lebanese of very similar stock. Petra is so damn close to Palestine, Jordan’s Nabataens can’t be that far off. Assyrians strike me as the most warlike of the lot.
The Jews are actually different genetically. They are actually closest to Kurds, Turks, and Armenians. They came from Northern Iraq and went southwest to Palestine at some point.
Nabataens are just Palestinians. I am pretty sure of that.
Assyrians are not warlike at all anymore.
Nowadays the most warlike are obviously (((certain people))).
And the Palestinians are awful warlike themselves, let’s face it.
Christian Lebanese and Jordanians don’t fight that much. Shia Lebanese are pretty belligerent though.
Assyrians are fighting against Turks right now in their villages in Northeastern Syria. And they formed militias to fight with the government, mostly for their villages, during the civil war. I think their militia was called Soetoro or something. They’ll fight all right, but only as a last option.
I see Palestinians as a bullied kid and Israel as Goliath size bully, I can hardly blame the kid for bringing a sling to school. Syrians seem like a cornered animal.
This is exactly the way I see it. I support the armed Palestinian resistance. I also support The Resistance (Syria, Hezbollah, Palestinians, Iran, Iranian proxies) against the Zionist Enemy, I mean Israel.
Thanks. This is fascinating. What are ancient tribe do Jordanians descend from?
Probably Nabateans as you said.
Palestinians and Jordaneans Nabataeans, Jews NAMBLApretaeans. Got it.