Today a suicide bomber attacked the heart of Ankara-capital city of Turkey. http://www.cnn.com/2016/03/13/world/ankara-park-blast/index.html At least 34 people died and 125 injured(19 seriously injured). The interesting thing is 2 days ago, US Embassy in Ankara sent below notice to American citizens living in Turkey. The blast happened only a few blocks away from the place described in the warning. http://turkey.usembassy.gov/mobile//sm-031116.html Now people in Turkey going crazy and blasting Turkish government about this. How come US knows what is going to happen but Turkey issues no warning? Interesting question. Turkish citizens now adding US Embassy to their bookmarks to follow the warnings.
Ouch... I just hope Turkey doesn't do the knee jerk bomb the shit out of the Kurds thingy.. Pretty embarrassing for Ankara any way you slice it.
My wife still doesn't get why I want to go back overseas. I just want to help put an end to this shit.
It seems so. Third attack in Ankara. First one was 5 months ago killing 109 Kurdish protestors and ISIS claimed it. Second one was 2 months ago killing 29 Turkish army officiers and Kurdish seperatists claimed. This one is still not claimed but believed to be Kurdish seperatists.
There is no "end to this shit." It has been ongoing for hundreds or thousands of years; don't have the effrontery to believe you can alter the course of the world.
What's remarkable is that I really don't consider 34 people killed and 125 injured by a suicide bomber in the Middle East "terrorism" anymore. I call that Monday. If that number were doubled, I'd pause a second and call it an "Unfortunate Tuesday." It's just the state of things, is all. Barely a blip on the screen. I didn't make it like this. It just is.
It started the day of the bombing. Turkish War Planes has been bombing Northern Iraq since Monday and doing operations in Kurdish cities in South East Turkey. So true Jack. And this is what is bothering people in Turkey. Why isn't West more sympathetic towards us? they are asking. Why everybody goes crazy when something happens in Paris but why nobody bothers when this happens in Ankara? they ask. What they don't know is, Turkey was never regarded as one of the civilized countries in people.
We use Arabic numerals for a reason. Not sure how involved the Turks were in that reason but the West was burning books and the Muslims safekeeping them for centuries in the darkest of the Dark Ages.
I think part of the issue is also that most Americans know Erdogan is scum and is playing both sides of the fence, He wants to kill the Kurds but he is sympathetic to ISIS in some ways as well. Do most Turks support the Saudis or do they support Iran?
Turks don't like Saudi's because they believe Saudi's betrayed Ottoman Empire during WW1. Turks don't like Iranians because Iranians are Shiite. Turks don't like Kurds because we are Kurds. They kill us kill us and then kill us more. Turks don't like Armenians and you already know Armenian genocide. Barry Turks don't like anyone.
We stole them from them after they went to all that trouble translating them from Greek and saving them from being burned by simpleton mobs.
http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2016/...are-federal-system-north-160317111902534.html Syria civil war: Kurds declare federal region in north Democratic Union Party and allied groups approve document that declares "federal democratic system" in country's north. The Syrian Kurdish Democratic Union Party (PYD) and several allied groups have voted to create an autonomous federation in the northern part of Syria. PYD officials claimed autonomy for the Kurdish-controlled areas on Thursday after two days of meetings with delegates of different communities in the region. Syrian Kurds say federalism is future for Syria Representatives of the Kurdish, Arab, Assyrian communities and other ethnic groups met in the town of Rmeilan in Hassakeh province to discuss bringing three Kurdish-led autonomous areas under the umbrella of a federal system. Taj Kordsh, a spokesman for the Syrian Democratic Forces, one of the groups involved, told Al Jazeera that the move had been made after many attempts by the Kurds to be heard. "The Kurdish people have been rejected and silenced in the latest peace talks in Geneva," he said. "We feel that the world powers are using us as a tool to push forward their agendas. It is now our right to protect ourselves. We do not support dividing Syria, but we expect an equal and fair outcome from the peace talks, and we have not seen any." The YPG, Jaish al-Thuwar and other Kurdish groups are all part of the SDF, a coalition that was founded in Syria's northeastern region in October. Both the Syrian government and one of the main opposition blocs immediately rejected the move. The Syrian foreign ministry issued a warning to "anyone who dares to undermine the unity of the land and the people of Syria under any title." "Creating a union or a federal system ... contradicts the Syrian constitution and all the national concepts and international resolutions," the statement said. Rojava autonomy declared The opposition Syrian National Coalition also said it rejected such unilateral declarations and warned against any attempt to form autonomous regions that it said would "confiscate the will of the Syrian people". The newly declared region, known as Rojava, consists of three distinct enclaves, or cantons, under Kurdish control in northern Syria: Jazira, Kobani and Afrin. "At least 200 representatives have met in Rmeilan to put forward this decision. We expect to hold several other meetings to discuss how the administration of this region will be organised," the statement said. Why Syria's Kurds want federalism, and who opposes it The move is likely to anger neighbouring Turkey, which fears that growing Kurdish power in Syria is encouraging separatism ambitions amongst its own Kurdish minority. Idris Nassan, a Syrian Kurdish official and former leader of the Democratic Union Party, said the announcement would mean "widening the framework of self-administration" across northern Syria. Speaking to Al Jazeera from Kobane, Nassan said preparations for federalism had been under way for some time. "Federalism should be the future not only for northern Syria or the Kurdish regions but for Syria in general, because under federalism democracy and equality will be guaranteed," he said. Syria's Kurds effectively control an uninterrupted 400km of territory along the Syrian-Turkish border from the Euphrates River to the frontier with Iraq, where Iraqi Kurds have enjoyed autonomy since the early 1990s. They also hold a separate section of the northwestern border in the Afrin area. SMDFTB, Turkey.
