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WikiLeaks: Leaked US Military Documents Show Army Sees PKK as ‘Freedom Fighters’

by Asbarez Staff
October 25, 2010
in Featured Story, International, News, Top Stories, WikiLeaks
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WASHINGTON (Today’s Zaman)–The US Army considers members of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), classified by the US and Turkey as a terrorist organization, as “freedom fighters,” according to leaked classified documents disclosed by WikiLeaks this week.
Turkey is mentioned in 128 of 391,000 confidential documents leaked by the whistleblower website that revealed the shocking civilian death toll in Iraq. In one document, the PKK is exalted as “freedom fighters.” The documents refer to a PKK group captured in Fallujah in 2004 as “freedom fighters who are citizens of Turkey.” The timing of this document comes shortly after Turkey’s Parliament decided not to allow the US to deploy troops in Turkey to attack Iraq.
Among the documents is a note about a PKK member caught in 2006, which states that it might be risky to hand him over to Iraqi police. Another document includes a report showing that a large number of Turks were arrested in Fallujah, the base of Sunni resistance fighters. A document from February 2007 reported that an Iraqi who resides in Turkey provided chemical gas used in several attacks by al-Qaeda there. WikiLeaks’ new revelations were seen as shocking by many, as US documents show that the civilian death toll in Iraq since the 2003 invasion has reached 115,000. This includes only the number of documented deaths.

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  1. sebouh from australia says:
    12 years ago

    of course they are freedom fighters…but US is Turkey’s puppet so it has to agree with them

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