Adrian Hamilton writes in The Independent - You can’t blame Kurdish terror on “Islamic fascists:”

“This week’s Kurdish terrorist outrages in Turkey are the last thing anyone wanted, or even expected. The ‘war on terror’, after all, was supposed to be about Islamic ‘fascists’ attacking the very roots of civilisation, not a bunch of Kurdish separatists with no apparent religious agenda attacking the vital tourist industry of a country due to join the European Union. Worse, they were perpetrated by Kurds, the West’s favourite group in Iraq, the people whom the outside world moved to protect from Saddam Hussein, and who did so much to encourage Washington and London to invade Iraq to remove the dictator. No wonder the US, which has always seen itself as the natural patron of Turkey, as well as the Kurds, moved so quickly to appoint a special envoy to keep Turks and Kurds on a co-operative path.”

We at www.SustainabiliTank.info have even stronger opinions as we tried ten to three years ago to talk to Turkish diplomats about building a binational state Turkish - Kurdish. This state could have even incorporated eventually the Kurdish part of Iraq. We were told that there are many minorities in Turkey and this is not possible. We argued that there is only one significant minority - the Kurds.