“Surely the atrocities perpetrated in Algeria against civilian "supporters" of those "terrorists" fit neatly into this category? Yes it fits. And France got a UN problem to deal with when French Air Forces bombed a Tunisia village sheltering Algerian terrorists who put bombs in light streets etc… It was wrong to torture, kill and deported populations under the pretext of “war against terror”.
But we speak here of a war between 1954 and 1963… So, is it something allowed nowadays?
And wasn’t something why Saddam Hussein was hanged for, like gazing the Kurds in Hallabja because they were sheltering separatists? That was wrong but bombing the Kurds in Erbil is right…

“And perhaps we shouldn't mention the Legion's current participation with the wickedness in the Central African Republic in support of Bozize?” Why? Does the Legion participate in burning villages, in a systematic campaign of punishment of civilian population and practising a campaign of “terre brulée”? If so, can you provide information?

“Such weapons are more selective than bombs and won't do any collateral damage if they are not directly targeting civilians.” True, however the woman I evacuated was shot with 2 bullets of small calibre. I still remember the holes in her chest, so it was done by light weapons, from helicopters… And believe me, it wasn’t possible to identify her as a potential terrorist, nor the old man who could barely walk…

“This still gives Turkey a very justified reason to strike back.” So it gives a very justified reason to the Kurds (not only the PKK) to strike back… It will be never ended.

“Had the PKK never risen, I'm almost sure by now the Kurds would have already had a semi autonomous state.” The Kurdish part of Turkey is the only part of the world where I saw M60 tank paint in blue and marked as “Police”.
Don’t misunderstand me; I do not like all this minorities or ethnicity rights. I saw the result in former-Yugoslavia.
However a good and great improvement of the Turkish democracy in dealing with regionalism could help in resolving politically the problem (more schools and hospitals, less barracks, as a starter…).
So I doubt that it would ever happen, PKK or not…