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‘Turkey has the second biggest army in NATO, and has used it to launch a vicious offensive against Kurdish citizens over the last eight months. But NATO, the EU, and the western media have largely failed to condemn the Turkish regime for its crimes.
Because of this silence, the recent bombings in Ankara and Istanbul may have come as a shock to many. But the reality is that violence is the norm in Turkey today, and that most of it is perpetrated by the state itself.
The Huffington Post has spoken of how Turkey “increasingly looks like war-torn Syria”, and The Canary has recently provided a shocking glimpse into one Kurdish town destroyed by Turkish authorities. Columbia University’s David L. Phillips, meanwhile, has insisted that:
Under the guise of fighting terrorism, several hundred Kurdish civilians have been killed [by Turkish forces] since July 2015.’