Quote Originally Posted by Brenus
So an outlaw attack a bank so the police bomb and slaughter his home village…
If you (well, the Turkish government) considers the PKK as a terrorist organisation, they should act like against a mafia, a group of outlaw… Because in speaking of a KURDISH separatist organisation the Turks just recognise the fact that they are nor Turks or Iraqis…
We had terrorist action from so-called Ethnic minorities. I don’t remember the Foreign Legion starting to burn the villages supported by the attack helicopters, or burning crops and killing livestock… A police operation has as aim to bring outlaws in court…
Nazi Germany was a criminal state which invaded all its neighbours. If Hitler would have been a gang of Germans attacking villages in Poland, Czechoslovakia or France to support his claim of a united German Population, the different polices would have done with him, like in 1933.
PKK is of course not as powerful as Nazi Germany. But neither is it comparable to an outlaw or a gang, easily taken care of by the police.

Quote Originally Posted by Brenus
So, you admit the Kurds have right to retaliate again the Turkish occupiers and the inevitable –according to your statement- collateral damage on Turkish civilians?
PKK does not have access to heavy weapons like aircrafts and artillery and therefore uses infantry weapons. Such weapons are more selective than bombs and won't do any collateral damage if they are not directly targeting civilians.

But anyway, I think whether PKK is a terrorist organisation or not is very irrelevant at this point. If you want, be my guest and call them a non-terrorist organisation attacking Turkey. This still gives Turkey a very justified reason to strike back.