lbo-talk-digest V1 #5145

[Hakki Alacakaptan]

You're a bit behind. The top item on the National Security Council's list of
threats was Islamic fundamentalism, until recently. Now it's corruption. The
PKK fell off the top 10 chart some time after Ocalan's trial. A good
indicator is the fact that martial law is being gradually lifted in the
southeast and villagers are being allowed to return to what was once the war
zone.

After the PKK we had a bout of fundamentalist terror here but it was mainly
a case of Afghanis doing atrocious things to each other. The police, with
their usual methods, mopped them up. Now the main items on the agenda are
getting foreign loans to avert economic collapse and EU membership. Jumping
on the Bush bandwagon is considered to be good for both these things.

Hakki Alacakaptan
Istanbul, Turkey

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-lbo-talk at lists.panix.com
[mailto:owner-lbo-talk at lists.panix.com]On Behalf Of Michael Pugliese
Subject: Re: lbo-talk-digest V1 #5145

Thiago Oppermann >...The comment about Turkey should get a footnote.  Aren't
there some reasons why it is so happy about this new war on terror that have
little to do with Islamic fundamentalist? I thought their main concern was
rather with the PKK.

   My sense is that the capture and trial of Occalan has greatly diminished
the fighting capacity of the PKK.
http://burn.ucsd.edu/~ats/PKK/pkk.html
http://www.ataa.org/ataa/ref/pkk.html
http://www.ataa.org/ataa/ref/pkk/articles/whoisocalan.html
Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK)
Dudley Knox Library, Terrorist Group Profiles. Dudley Knox Library Naval
Postgraduate
School. ... Terrorism Resources. Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK). ...
http://web.nps.navy.mil/~library/tgp/kurds.htm
PKK TERRORISM
Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Ankara
December 1998
http://www.turkey.org/apo-pkk/pkktitle.htm
Michael Pugliese