Dutch Court Lets Terrorists Off the Hook
Several Dutch news sources reported earlier this week that a Dutch court in the city of Den Bosch decided to let 16 suspected PKK terrorists off the hook because of a lack of evidence. The court found that the Turkish government should allow the lawyers of the Kurds living in the Netherlands to attend hearings of PKK suspects in Turkey. One of those suspects is Ocalan, the leader of the PKK who was sentenced to 300 years imprisonment on a variety of charges years ago.
The Den Bosch court ruled that the Human Rights of the Kurdish suspects were infringed upon by the Turkish government’s refusal to let Dutch lawyers attend hearings of Turkish terrorists in Turkey.
The suspects were accused of being member of a terrorist organization, the PKK, who underwent and gave terrorist training in Liempde, in the Dutch province of Noord Brabant.
Incredibly enough, the Dutch Justice Department agreed with the court ruling.
There are two things that make this story nearly unbelievable:
1. The Netherlands has a similar law as regards to terrorism suspects. In other words, if the roles were reversed, the Turkish government would also have been told ‘no go.’ Turkey refused it by saying that the ones locked up in jail are not impartial witnesses. They have their own interests.
2. Although the Dutch sources did not take the time to point this out, these individuals were not the only ones trained at the camp in Liempde. A Dutch Kurd who was trained at the same terrorist training camp committed a terrorist attack in 2007 in Ankara, killing ten.
To make matters even worse, Turkish police arrested a Kurdish woman at a police station in Istanbul today, Saturday. She appeared pregnant. On closer look, however, police officers noted she was wearing a bomb belt. She had gone to the police station to blow herself up, killing as many police officers as possible. In total, she wore 20kg of explosives.
It seems that the Netherlands still has not learned to take terrorism seriously. Sadly, people will die due to this country’s refusal to deal with terrorists in an effective manner. I suggest that the VVD and Geert Wilders ask the Dutch government what it thinks about this week’s ruling, and what they plan to do about PKK and other terrorist organizations.
Terrorists are welcome in European countries as long as they don’t harm Europeans themselves. Same thing with PKK in Belgium, Germany, etc. The reality is, if you are a terrorist out to harm Turkish civilians and Turkish interests, that makes you a "freedom fighter".
Only when these "rebels" start harming the Western interests (such as Al Qaeda) do they become terrorists. CNN and BBC narrative is consistent with that fact. Old story, old lines.
european are not stupid to believe Turks..they know the real terrorist is Turkey and PKK only defending its people against the state terror..to learn more about Turkish state terror against civilian kurds take a look at this link…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TXiSdNQLf6k
You say, quote, "Turkish police arrested a Kurdish woman", however nowhere in the link does it mention that the woman arrested is Kurdish, moreover, in no other article that I have read on this arrest is it suggested that she is Kurdish.
So why would you say that?
This a scandal for the principles of justice, for the european cooperation (Turkey is a member of the Council of Europe, and candidate to the European Union), and even for the Dutch interests. Around 80% of the drugs dealed in the Parisian agglomeration were transported into France by the PKK, according to François Haut, director of the Department for the Study of the Contemporary Criminal Menace in Paris. Who can believe that the PKK does not export drugs to the Netherland?
About the traffic of drugs by the PKK:
http://www.drmcc.org/download_en.php?dl=41b3a3abccc0f.pdf
http://www.turkishweekly.net/comments.php?id=2827
About the crude lies of the PKK and its supporters:
http://www.ataa.org/reference/pkk/pkk_comment.html
http://www.ataa.org/reference/pkk/pkk_question.html
“You say, quote, “Turkish police arrested a Kurdish woman“, however nowhere in the link does it mention that the woman arrested is Kurdish, moreover, in no other article that I have read on this arrest is it suggested that she is Kurdish.”
The worst blind are those who do not want see (il n’est pire aveugle que celui qui ne veut pas voir):
http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5iyRhpS5EX2la6NYMwXmEDiboCMrw
This site is a pro-turkish fascist site, it only publishes what the fasicst turks and turkey’s intellegence members say or at least it is been penetrated by the turkish intelligence members. This site is stubbornly anti-kurdish. PKK is fighting for a free kurdish homeland, In no where on earth a freedom fighting oganisation and people that are fighting for freedom are labelled terrorists except in turkey! such organisations have a valid cause and are labelled freedom fighters I am affraid wherther you like it or not!. PKK managed to prove it to the the turks that the kurds are not turks and they will never be.
You suggest that I am willfully ignorant, simply because I insisted that this article explain their unsupported claim that the woman was Kurdish.
I wanted, and still would like, some answer to my question.
To equate Kurdish with terrorist is wrong.
It is morally wrong, because it leads to the death of innocent people.
For right now in a land far away from you (Turkey), people who simply look Kurdish are being killed in the streets by furious mobs screaming “The best Kurd is a dead one”.
Last but not least, don’t get so excited about this story, because it is just that, a story.
This is a classic play from the Turkish generals. They had been getting hurt in the press this last week after it was discovered that one of the top commanders was playing golf–on one of the Turkish military’s many very expensive onbase golf courses–during a terrorist attack on a military base that killed 15 Turkish soldiers. When asked why this vulnerable base wasn’t moved sooner, they explained it was due to a lack of money. Since then, in less than a week, there have appeared more articles critical of the military than in all of the last years put together.
Summary: this was a just a little plot the Turkish military threw together to get themselves out of the headlines.