Explosion in Ankara today

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  1. Sly Lampost

    Sly Lampost New Member

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    Jeanette has every right to call you out on this, given Turkey's history of false flag operations with Gladio and the Susurluk case.

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  2. Jeannette

    Jeannette Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    There has been an explosion at a Turkish refugee center in Stockholm, and again the Turkish authorities are blaming the YPG together with the PKK. Strange how right after the UN condemned Turkey for its attacks on Syria and the YPG, as well as the killing of civilians in an area which Turkey considers strategic, that the YPG suddenly decided to commit terrorist attacks...or at least according to the Turkish authorities they did.

    It's going to be interesting to see what Washington's response will be. Will they continue their support for the YPG, or will they bow to Turkish blackmail and condemn them for the attacks...which of course bodes the question, how innocent is Washington in all this?

    It also bodes the question, how harsh will Russia be when its patience wears thin?
     
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    Jeannette Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    Here are some excerpts from the post which is frightening and very reminiscent of the pogroms against the Armenians as well as the ones against the Greeks in Istanbul. One has to wonder why there was ne'er a mention of it in the MSM?

    After PKK militants attacked Turkish soldiers and police last summer and fall, Grey Wolves attacked 140 offices of the HDP, the Peoples’ Democratic Party which supports the rights of Kurds and other minorities, according to the leftist Turkish journalist Sungur Savran, setting many offices on fire:

    “Ordinary Kurds were hunted on the streets of the cities and towns of the Turkish-dominated western parts of the country, intercity buses stopped and stoned, and Kurdish seasonal workers attacked collectively, their houses and cars burnt down, and they themselves driven away en masse

    Such polarizing violence suited the needs of Erdogan’s AKP party, which wants to eliminate the HDP from parliament in order to gain the super-majority it needs to revise the constitution to enhance Erdogan’s powers as president.

    His claim about the “Mafia” may have been more than metaphorical. Following Erdogan’s recent denunciation of hundreds of Turkish academics as “traitors” for protesting the government’s vicious crackdown on Kurdish communities, an ultranationalist organized crime boss – who was briefly imprisoned for his alleged role in the Ergenekon conspiracy but is today chummy with Erdogan – promised to “take a shower” in “the blood of those so-called intellectuals.”

    So there you have it: The Erdogan regime has revived an alliance of intelligence officials, right-wing ultranationalists and even organized criminals to crush Kurdish extremism, to cow political critics, and to support radical Islamists in Syria..​


    It's hard to find information, but from what I gathered, there have also been attacks on the offices of the Turkish newspaper Hurriyet, and one of the writers. The editor has been imprisoned as well as the editor of Zaman.
     
  4. Ivan88

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    Thanks Jeannette for this Turko quote of gross hypocrisy.
    What if the attack was on those in the military that had voiced opposition to an invasion of Syria?
    At, any rate, The Turko President has no right to complain, considering his long and consistent support for far worse terrorists acts against Syrians.
     
  5. Mineva

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    This attack is done by Russian GRU under the sheath of PKK. They attacked the busses which is carrying "Turkish Air Forces" personnel including civilian women and children. The main problem is this attack is done with the help of anti-govt Turks. Turkey will reply Russia at Caspian Sea and at Ukraine.
     
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    You must be in your heyday Mineva. I read 150 Kurds were burned alive by the Turkish army, and 200 more civilians are stuck in their basements fearful to come out so they won't be killed.

    I know that Ukraine and Turkey are now allies. Well as the saying goes, birds of a feather flock together. I wonder if the Turkish army will do as well going against the Russians as they do when it's women and children?


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    Actually Mineva the bombing in Ankara was carried out by a splinter group of the PKK in retaliation for what Turkey did to a town in Eastern Turkey. Also the government won't mention it, but 22 pilots were killed in the explosion in Ankara. I know that over one hundred Turkish pilots decided to retire a while ago, so there has to be a shortage of pilots now.

    I always wondered about that retirement. I read once that there was a lawsuit by the Kurd families of the two pilots that were shot down in Syria. The claim was that the army knew the jets they were flying in had navigation problems... and yet the pilots were ordered to go near the Syrian coast. Could this have been the reason that so many pilots retired? Who knows, maybe they were Kurds. :confuse:
     
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    What is Europe doing regarding this?
     
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    Er?

    Btw, care to tel us which tobacconist you use, because that seems some weird sh*t you've been using...
     
  10. Mineva

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    Turkiye took the revenge of this terrorist attack today. 17 Russian army officers including 7 generals are killed today in trap bomb attack during a meeting in Latakia. There is going to be more responses by Turkiye.
     
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    Oh so Russia committed the terrorist attack? Interesting!

    So that's what all those generals and officers sitting in Latakia were doing, when they should have been watching their troops in the rest of the Russian Federation. But then again I heard they had a great nightclub in Latakia. :roll:
     
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    I think my agenda for being here and approach are probably unusual.
    I just was curious to know if European leaders were doing anything that led citizens to think they intended any major military action.
     
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    Suicide bomb in Istanbul Turkey leads to deaths of two Americans...
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    Two Americans among four dead in Istanbul suicide bombing
    March 19, 2016 -- A suicide bomb attack near a crowded shopping area of central Istanbul killed at least four people, including two Americans and two Israelis, and injured 36 more. The incident marks the fourth major blast in the country in recent months.
     
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    What the heck have you been smoking lol?
     

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