50 now dead from attack on wedding in Turkey
Aug 21st, 2016, 01:21 AM
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50 now dead from attack on wedding in Turkey
These are Sick people who do this to people minding their own business and trying to live a good life. It is going to take a whole world commitment to contain such evil. It seems hopeless.
Aug 21st, 2016, 04:52 AM
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The perpetrators were identified by the officials as ISIS.
However, I will always have doubts about attacks on Kurds, in view of the Kurdish cities totally destroyed in the Turkish Southeast by government air and surface bombing and hundreds of thousand left jobless and homeless in the region, just because they were accused of aiding the Kurdish terrorist organization PKK, but with no court decision.
The government has been using strongly inflammatory language against the Kurds who did not vote for them in 2015, They are supported by the Nationalist party and its supporters in using racist hate language.
Saying, it was ISIS is very easy when it could be any other Islamist group across the border in Syria given a target and logistic aid, known to have been under Turkish government support.
Someone or some people are working hard for a civil war in those regions. Conspiracy theories abound.
But what actually matters is that humans are being killed, maimed and scarred in all ways, and people like us are trying to find the lesser of the evils as our next president or prime minister as ever in our short known history of about four thousand years.
However, I will always have doubts about attacks on Kurds, in view of the Kurdish cities totally destroyed in the Turkish Southeast by government air and surface bombing and hundreds of thousand left jobless and homeless in the region, just because they were accused of aiding the Kurdish terrorist organization PKK, but with no court decision.
The government has been using strongly inflammatory language against the Kurds who did not vote for them in 2015, They are supported by the Nationalist party and its supporters in using racist hate language.
Saying, it was ISIS is very easy when it could be any other Islamist group across the border in Syria given a target and logistic aid, known to have been under Turkish government support.
Someone or some people are working hard for a civil war in those regions. Conspiracy theories abound.
But what actually matters is that humans are being killed, maimed and scarred in all ways, and people like us are trying to find the lesser of the evils as our next president or prime minister as ever in our short known history of about four thousand years.
Aug 21st, 2016, 12:22 PM
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50 people died and almost zero news in the US about it. Maybe if they had been Americans, it would have been different, but it should be our concern too. That is far more important, IMHO, than all the news ad nauseam about some adult American athletes who are childish, immature, stupid and irresponsible.
Aug 21st, 2016, 12:54 PM
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So sad.
But I don't know why Sassafrass is complaining. It's near the top of the main NYT web page, and went up at 1:42 pm ET. On the other hand, it is way, way down the front web page of the UK Guardian.
But I don't know why Sassafrass is complaining. It's near the top of the main NYT web page, and went up at 1:42 pm ET. On the other hand, it is way, way down the front web page of the UK Guardian.
Aug 21st, 2016, 01:32 PM
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Just dreadful.
OC - I noticed that the turkish government was blaming ISIS and wondered why they hadn't decided it was the PKK; I hadn't realised that it was a Kurdish wedding.
<<But what actually matters is that humans are being killed, maimed and scarred in all ways, and people like us are trying to find the lesser of the evils as our next president or prime minister as ever in our short known history of about four thousand years.>>
This.
OC - I noticed that the turkish government was blaming ISIS and wondered why they hadn't decided it was the PKK; I hadn't realised that it was a Kurdish wedding.
<<But what actually matters is that humans are being killed, maimed and scarred in all ways, and people like us are trying to find the lesser of the evils as our next president or prime minister as ever in our short known history of about four thousand years.>>
This.
Aug 21st, 2016, 02:25 PM
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Guess I was not complaining so much as comparing the concern about the deaths of 50 people with the interest in the athletes' escapades. Every time I turn on the TV or my computer, no matter what news channel, there is something about them with interviews, speculations, their statements, etc. NYT web page info about Turkey, yes, major TV news, not so important.
Aug 22nd, 2016, 05:38 AM
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almost zero news in the US about it??? This has been in every newspaper, on the radio, and on eveyr TV news channel I regularly view/read.
I find that whenever someone on FOdors complains about how there is no news in the US about something it is because of their own listening/reading habits when such news is readily available.
I find that whenever someone on FOdors complains about how there is no news in the US about something it is because of their own listening/reading habits when such news is readily available.
