Oktay Eksi: "Terror accords" with Iraq; a continuing masquerade

Despite this though, I have decided to write on the topic, since I don't actually believe the signing of such an accord between these two countries will make any difference.

After all, the agreement being aimed at by Ankara is not one which would really clear northern Iraq of its terror nests in the Kandil mountains; it is just one which was aimed at stringing along the Turkish public.
 
Which is why I attach no importance to the ongoing debates in various newspapers about whether or not the actual names of the PKK and PJAK are mentioned in the framework of the accord, or whether or not permission for "hot pursuit" of terrorists over the Turkish borders and into northern Iraq is to be obtained from the central Baghdadi government, or from the northern Iraq regional administration.

None of these details change anything.
 
Everyone knows, after all, that there is no difference between the Maliki government in Baghdad, which stands on its own two feet due to the support of the US, and the governments of Sinyora in Beirut, and Karzai in Afghanistan. None of these governments actually represent the people of these countries. These are puppet administrations. Which is why they keep none of the promises which they make.
 
And if they were able to keep any of these promises, there might actually be a drop of improvement and serenity in these countries.
 
So, the truth we face is that the Maliki government, in signing an accord with Turkey, has actually neither a desire nor a firm policy of its own in penalizing the PKK forces sheltered in Iraq.

What is being carried out therefore is pure and simple sleight of hand.
 
As for the US, everyone also knows that despite the fact that it has promised Ankara for 4 years that it would "fight together against the PKK" with Turkey, it has not helped Turkey at all, but has instead rained down support on the Kurdish administration in northern Iraq.
 
At the beginning, the US used to say "We don't have enough soldiers to use against the PKK forces in Iraq." Later, they would claim "we are making the necessary preparations." When it started to become clear that this was not true, they turned it into "We are cooperating with Turkey." But that tactic also had no results. In order to further distract the Turkish public, President Bush suggested appointing authorities who would "coordinate the cooperative efforts between Turkey and the US." The best part of this plan was that they even tried to assign someone to this special commission from the Iraqi government, someone who could tell the PKK "the Turks are coming on this date, and they plan on firing on you from over there."

In any case, this masquerade of "cooperation" finally came to an end when even our own administration, which up to that point had allowed the tricking and deceiving of its own public, began to complain about all this.
 
 
Let me cut to the chase here: If the US truly desired the elimination of the PKK, wouldn't it by now have cut off the logistic paths used by the PKK in Iraq? Or, let's say it didn't want to take care of this itself; wouldn't it atleast have ordered either Barzani or Talabani to take care of this?
 
In any case, let them sign away at those accords in Ankara. But don't anyone let themselves be tricked looking at these agreements. Because behind them lies neither solutions, nor anyone who actually desires a solution.

What is really wanted is the re-drawing of the map of the Middle East-including Turkey-according to the interests of the US.