when it's not the US or Israel being accused?
The German weekly newsmagazine Der Spiegel has published an investigative article that accuses the Turkish military of using chemical weapons against members of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK). The magazine reports that forensic experts at the Hamburg University Hospital have confirmed the authenticity of 31 photographs that show the severely scorched bodies of eight PKK fighters who are believed to have been killed in the Kurdish town of Çukurca in September 2009. The hospital says it is highly probable that the victims in the photographs, six men and two women who are said to be scarcely recognizable as human beings, died “due to the use of chemical substances.”
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Die Tageszeitung notes that Westerwelle had been informed of the chemical weapons allegations before an official trip he made to Turkey in late July. But Westerwelle seems uninterested in following up on the claims, presumably because if they are found to be true, they would severely complicate Turkey’s relationship with the European Union. Westerwelle has been pushing for Turkey to become a full EU member, but allegations of more human rights abuses in Turkey would delay accession talks even more.
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Apart from a handful of news outlets, the mainstream media in Europe and the United States have mostly ignored these allegations. Now imagine the MSM reaction if it were Israel that was being accused of using chemical weapons.
And I wonder what the high-minded weenies at Harvard think? Or do they want to know?
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Turkey may be better than the other countries in that area, but not by much.
They still haven't come clean about the Armenian genocide.
I think they made a huge concession a few years ago that it is no longer a criminal offence to speak kurdish language in the privacy of your own home.
On a previous attempt to join the EU, all trans sexuals, gays lesbians etc had to be registered so that the eu could monitor that they were not being abused by the cops.
After the failure of the application, the cops used the register to variously raid homes (I saw pictures of internal walls demolished) beat shit out of anyone they found, and order them to come to the cop station to receive "treatment for their condition".
It wouldn't surprise me at all if the Turkish army were using napalm, white phosphorus etc.
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