Iran opens fire on Kurdish protestors from helicopters

[cheryl]

dyaoko and Diri, thank you for the information.

these "turkic people" are not turks from turkey, but rather ethnic azeri turks from the area near the caspian sea and inside the iranian border south of azerbaijan. the term "ajam" is specifically used for them?

also, the arabs from syria and lebanon. . . i'm going to assume that they are shi'a and probably affiliated with, if not outright members of, hezbollah. it only makes sense. over a year ago. . . well over a year ago by now, the dirty mullahs and the dirty ba'athi in damascus signed a security agreement, stating that they would assist each other if either were threatened. it looks like they are putting this agreement to work and it definitely benefits syria because it gets rid of excess, unemployed, potentially troublesome syrian soldiers who were booted out of lebanon.

i agree, dyaoko, that it would be unwise for bashurî peshmerga to go to rojhelat and for the reasons that you mentioned. unfortunately, the wolves are howling at the bashurî door also and this period of time is critical for them. however, they should not only allow protests for the rojhelatî, but they should assist with organizing the protests, at least behind the scenes, so to speak.

Diri, it is no surprise to me that few kurds serve as police or in government institutions in rojhelat. this is the way the filthy mullahs have worked since 1979. brutality is more easily committed when it is done at the hands of kurd-haters. that is an old fascist trick, which was also used by stalin.

about pkk/pjak. . . .

heval, you have opened the horizons of my mind to new possibilities. . . well over a year ago, in either late, late 2003 or very early 2004, i heard some information that said the gerîlas at qandîl would be allowed the choice of going into iran, to join PJAK. then, a short while later, a news report came out in which a reporter had gone to qandîl to interview the gerîlas, and this report included the information that those gerîlas who wanted to continue fighting, would cross into rojhelat as soon as the snow conditions permitted.

additionally, i had understood that PJAK had joined itself to KONGRA-GEL/PKK.

now you are linking PJAK with PKK also, and this is where my horizons have expanded: all of the noise coming from ankara has been about the PKK threat to turkey from qandîl. but we also know that turkey and iran have been cooperating for the last several years, especially since operation iraqi freedom and especially with regard to kurdish political prisoners. so, what if all of ankara's tantrums over the PKK threat to them from qandîl are merely a ruse, a distraction? what if ankara's tantrums are at the request of the mullahs because the mullahs know that PKK is really a threat to THEM?

it would still benefit ankara to invade bashur to take control of the oilfields at mûsil and kerkuk, but if they are also intent on "cleaning" up qandîl, it is because the filthy mullahs want it and will go along with ankara's seizure of the oilfields as long as PJAK/PKK is out of the iranian picture.

if anyone gets more info on PJAK/PKK in rojhelat, please post it.