me to task for criticising Massoud Barzani but ig: nores the central point that by attacking the Kurdish Workers Party (PKK) during his visit to Turkey Barzani was aiding the Turkish What are the facts? Barzani's speech took place at Ankara airsort on March 31st - when the Turkish army was carrying ou a brutal war against the Kurds.
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Keith tries to have things both ways. He plays down support for the adventurist PKK, yet if it did launch the Newroz uprising then it clearly has considerable support. Even if Newroz were complete adventurism then socialists should still support ..(inwords) -(infigures) *... (month trategy and tactics, as I dic ut if Keith is right and th KK doesn't have support, then his position is far worse. uprising must have been a spontaneous Kurdish revolt against military occupation. In that case anyone who fails support it is aiding the Turkish government's repression.
Is the PKK 'irrelevant in the fight for Free Kurdistan? The PKK - at least in its statements - lights for a united, inde pendent Kurdistan. The KDP and PUK) limit themselves to autonomy' within the existing Iraqi state - a point stressed by Barzani.
They don't raise the demand for the unity and independence of Kurdistan - elementary requirements for a Free Kurdistan. In that sense the PKK despite its awful, Stalinist politics - is in the leadership of he fight for Kurdistan and Barzant's actions are a stab in the back.
Geoff Ryan Brixton