"Is PKK Turkey’s Hamas?
Ihsan Bal
Head of Security Studies
USAK
After Mr. Tayyip Erdogan’s walk-out incident in Davos, one of the most common statements made is that Israel and Turkey have been fighting terrorism; thus, they have to be on the same side. Part of this statement implies that PKK and Hamas are similar organizations and Kurds share the same fate as Palestinians do. Moreover, there is a deliberate attempt to compare Turkish way of fighting terrorism with Israeli methods. On one hand, DTP (pro-Kurdish Democratic Society Party) is trying to challenge the Prime Minister claiming that “the same thing is done to the Kurds” and on the other hand, columnists who are independent from DTP or even opposed to it claim that objecting the Israeli counter-terrorism methods will only put Turkey in a difficult position in the international arena."
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