PKK Torches Dormitory, Burns Children
I'm going to keep pointing these things out until someone, somewhere outside of Turkey grasps how serious this is.
A group of Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) supporters have attacked a student dormitory in the southeastern province of Şırnak with Molotov cocktails as part of the outlawed organization’s campaign to escalate tension in the country ahead of the June 12 general elections, heavily injuring three children. ...
One student suffered severe burns to the entire body while two others only suffered burns to their arms and face.
The injured children were taken to Cizre State Hospital. The situation of one student still remains life critical as of Friday night.
I can find no coverage of this attack in any English-language news source but Today's Zaman--which I do not trust. But something obviously happened here that should be covered by the international media. Why isn't anyone noticing?
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Aug '10
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Because the Regime Media in western countries needs to maintain the delusion that Islam is benign. The truth would make a mockery of actions such as yesterday's G8 Conference decision to give 20 billion to the lovely "Arab Spring" uprisings.
We're seeing a nearly perfect replay of the late 1930's.
Edited on May 28, 2011 at 7:17amSep '10
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Claire, I'm glad that you at least are bringing it to our attention. I will pray for the recovery of the victims.
Feb '11
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I keep going back to that comment about your not trusting Today’s Zaman. I would appreciate it if someone who reads Turkish could check their story against one of a more reputable paper.
Jun '10
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There is a dearth of news stories that never seem to make it to the American press. I listen to BBC's Global News and am astounded by what I don't know. I also listen to them with a salt shaker close at hand.
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The PKK are Maoists. The victims were Muslims.
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It's all over the Turkish press. Just not in any English-language papers save for Today's Zaman.
Aug '10
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Claire Berlinski, Ed.
The PKK are Maoists. The victims were Muslims. · May 28 at 6:39am
Kurdistan Maoists?! Now I understand why the story is being ignored. The whole region is a maelstrom of hopeless chaos.
Nov '10
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Claire Berlinski, Ed.: I'm going to keep pointing these things out until someone, somewhere outside of Turkey grasps how serious this is.
Maybe because of emotional burnout. There is a limit to how long or how intense most people can maintain their emotional intensity and there are too many other demands on their emotions in places other than a country that was once considered an ally of the U.S. and Israel but apparently now hates us and Israel. OK, they hate us, let them rot, might be the feeling.
Nov '10
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Claire Berlinski, Ed.
The PKK are Maoists. The victims were Muslims.
Even more reason to willfully ignore it.
May '10
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Claire Berlinski, Ed.
The PKK are Maoists. The victims were Muslims. · May 28 at 6:39am
That's an important reason right there: Leftist violence is not supposed to be reported.
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River Kurdistan Maoists?! Now I understand why the story is being ignored. The whole region is a maelstrom of hopeless chaos. · May 28 at 8:11am
It's really not, River. Last night at about 11:00 I was in the mood for a snack and had nothing I wanted to eat in the house, so I went out to get a bite. It was such a nice evening that I ended up going for a long walk, enjoying the sight of people out enjoying themselves in the cafes, out with their friends and families. I ended up walking and walking, and I thought, not for the first time, that there are few cities--and none of this size--where a woman out walking by herself at that hour could feel so safe. I feel almost no fear of violent crime here (PKK bombs aside); I am never harassed (I can count the number of times I've heard a rude comment on one hand, and I've been here for five years); I walk everywhere by myself at any time of day and am struck over and over by the civility of this city. (continued ... )
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There are some 20 million people in Istanbul, many by American standards very poor (per capita GNP probably about USD 9,000, massive Gini coefficient), and yet to most people here--Turks and Kurds and many other ethnicities alike--violence is unthinkable, muggings and petty theft exceptionally rare, and exceptional politeness and civility the norm--even though life is actually quite hard for many people. If you visited, I promise you would be so struck by this. I've had cab drivers chase me down the street to return my change to me, thinking I'd accidentally overpaid them (I was actually trying to tip them, but they thought I'd made a mistake and paid them too much.) These acts of terrorism are stunningly shocking--the norm here is not violence, but civilized behavior toward fellow citizens and particularly toward foreigners. When last I visited Washington DC, it felt like a "maelstrom of hopeless violence." If you're used to Istanbul, that's just what it is. If you feel like it, I discuss this at length here.
Edited on May 28, 2011 at 9:39pm