“Disproportionate” retaliation? 31
A car bomb exploded in the Turkish capital Ankara today. Three people have been reported killed and fifteen injured.
The Kurdish terrorist organization PKK – the Kurdish Workers’ Party – has denied responsibility for it.
Turkey is retaliating by bombing Kurdish villages in northern Iraq. We don’t yet know the number of dead and injured among the Kurds.
We held our breath waiting for foreign ministers of Europe, the Secretary-General of the UN, and Palestinian spokesmen to declare the Turkish retaliation “disproportionate” (as they always say of Israel’s retaliations), but have had to give up in bewildered disappointment.
And not one of them has spoken the words “cycle of violence” either, even though the PKK has been pursuing its “armed struggle” and Turkey has been opposing it with force since 1984.
Funny, that.
