PKK militants blow up Iran-Turkey gas pipeline

[Jigs]

Wednesday, July 21, 2010
ISTANBUL - Daily News with wires

Suspected members of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party, or PKK, blew up a pipeline carrying natural gas from Iran to Turkey, forcing the shutdown of the conduit, officials said Wednesday.

The powerful blast occurred overnight at a section of the pipeline near the eastern district of Doğubeyazıt, in Ağrı province, several kilometers from the Iranian border, a local official told Agence France-Presse, without giving other details.

"The explosion is believed to have been carried out by members of the separatist terrorist organization," Ağrı Governor Ali Yerlikaya said in a written statement.

The outlawed PKK, which is listed as a terrorist organization by Turkey, the United States and the European Union, took up arms in 1984. The nearly 26-year conflict has claimed 45,000 lives.

Security forces are looking for the perpetrators, the statement by the Ağrı governor said.

Television footage showed a large blaze raging over the pipeline after the blast, which shattered the windows of nearby buildings, Anatolia news agency said.

The explosion cut the flow of Iranian gas, but an official at Turkey's state oil and gas company BOTAŞ ruled out a supply shortage, saying that gas coming via pipelines from Russia and Azerbaijan was enough to meet the country’s needs.

"There is no problem at the moment," she told AFP.

Repairs at the damaged section of the Iranian conduit were expected to take about a week, she said, adding that the fire had been extinguished as of Wednesday morning.

Earlier this month, PKK militants were blamed for another blast that hit a pipeline carrying oil from Iraq in southeastern Turkey.

 

[Jigs]

Whoops just saw a thread was already up. Mods plz merge if possible.

 

[somebozo]

Now PKK is in serious trouble. I think PKK and Baluch sepratists have something in common.. Both love to blow gas pipeline. I should say as a punishment we leave the pipeline burning for sevral days, the enviromental disaster in forms of heat waves will be unberable to these traitors.

 

[mjnaushad]

Same old BS.....Why can't they fight like a man......Soldier to soldier.....They should not complain then if the F 16s comes into the fight.

 

[Nahraf]

Zionist Nazis are fostering destabilizing acts of terror against Turkey as a means of silencing Ankara's opposition to barbaric policies of Zionist entity. Zionist Nazis is trying to destabilize Turkey and is backing this PKK. Zionist controlled media are supporting this terrorist organization in order to destabilize Turkey and to force them not to attack barbaric policies of Zionist entity.

 

[SpArK]

I think turkey has to deal with this menace of terorism which is bleeding it. Steps have to be taken to eliminate this threat which is dangering its citizens and assets.

Zionist Nazis are fostering destabilizing acts of terror against Turkey as a means of silencing Ankara's opposition to barbaric policies of Zionist entity. Zionist Nazis is trying to destabilize Turkey and is backing this PKK. Zionist controlled media are supporting this terrorist organization in order to destabilize Turkey and to force them not to attack barbaric policies of Zionist entity.

Hi I am quite new to this forum , would like to know whats a Zionist Nazi is ?

My limited knowledge on this issue has so far been that Nazism was a German thing and Zionism was something related to Jews.
Correct me if i am wrong.

 

[Jigs]

We need to set up a forward DMZ in Iraq. Set up forward bases. This isn't a homegrown issue their base of operations are in the northern mountainous region of Iraq.

 

[AZADPAKISTAN2009]

Turkey has to move into Iraq
Pakistan has to move into Afghanistan


only solution to removing PKK and Taliban

 

[Nahraf]

...would like to know whats a Zionist Nazi is ?

The Zionist Nazism is the policies of Zionist entity towards Palestinians. The Zionism movement started in Europe due to discrimination of Jews in Europe. This was European problem nothing to do with Palestine and Palestinians. The Hitler came to power riding on Nazism to racially purify Europe they kill Jews in Europe again nothing to do with Palestine and Palestinians. After the Nazi defeat the European powers decided to get rid of Jews from Europe by exporting the Jews to Palestine as per Zionist request. The killing of Jews in Europe was done by 'White European Christian Germans' and had nothing to do with 'Brown Asian Muslim Palestinians'. Palestine was not empty land but was populated by Palestinians. So Zionist followed the tactics of Nazis in Poland by ethnically cleansing Palestinians to create their own Lebensraum. The Zionist are following Nazi policies by expelling, demolishing homes, villages, farms of Palestinians.

 

[SpArK]

The Zionist Nazism is the policies of Zionist entity towards Palestinians. The Zionism movement started in Europe due to discrimination of Jews in Europe. This was European problem nothing to do with Palestine and Palestinians. The Hitler came to power riding on Nazism to racially purify Europe they kill Jews in Europe again nothing to do with Palestine and Palestinians. After the Nazi defeat the European powers decided to get rid of Jews from Europe by exporting the Jews to Palestine as per Zionist request. The killing of Jews in Europe was done by 'White European Christian Germans' and had nothing to do with 'Brown Asian Muslim Palestinians'. Palestine was not empty land but was populated by Palestinians. So Zionist followed the tactics of Nazis in Poland by ethnically cleansing Palestinians to create their own Lebensraum. The Zionist are following Nazi policies by expelling, demolishing homes, villages, farms of Palestinians.

Ohhh okay.. thanks for the informative post Nahraf.

 

[Pride]

Seeing this event I am happy that Indian government pulled of from IPI gas line where Pak was not ensuring the safety of gas line..

 

[ای ایران]

We need to set up a forward DMZ in Iraq. Set up forward bases. This isn't a homegrown issue their base of operations are in the northern mountainous region of Iraq.

It'll never happen. The PKK's operational bases may be in Iraqi Kurdestan but the conditions that give life to their movement and the base of their support are in southeastern Turkey. It would be better for both Turkey and Iran to remove those policies and practices which are repressive and discriminatory towards Kurds. Taking the fight to the PKK in Iraqi Kurdestan wont change anything as far as Kurdish alienation goes. It will exacerbate it and give Turkey, Iran and Iraq more of a serious long-term problem.

 

[Nahraf]

It'll never happen. The PKK's operational bases may be in Iraqi Kurdestan but the conditions that give life to their movement and the base of their support are in southeastern Turkey. It would be better for both Turkey and Iran to remove those policies and practices which are repressive and discriminatory towards Kurds. Taking the fight to the PKK in Iraqi Kurdestan wont change anything as far as Kurdish alienation goes. It will exacerbate it and give Turkey, Iran and Iraq more of a serious long-term problem.

I completely agree. The Turkish policy of Turkification and denial of linguistic rights to Kurdish minority creates problems for Turkey and it's enemies to take advantage. Why can't Turkey be multingual state with Turkish, Kurdish, and other languages. In Pakistan, we have seven major regional languages, one national. and one official language.

 

[Jigs]

It'll never happen. The PKK's operational bases may be in Iraqi Kurdestan but the conditions that give life to their movement and the base of their support are in southeastern Turkey. It would be better for both Turkey and Iran to remove those policies and practices which are repressive and discriminatory towards Kurds. Taking the fight to the PKK in Iraqi Kurdestan wont change anything as far as Kurdish alienation goes. It will exacerbate it and give Turkey, Iran and Iraq more of a serious long-term problem.

Well first Iraq has no say in this matter. It may be their land but they refuse to do anything about it. Second is we saw that military operations worked Operation sun resulted in a crippled PKK that just recently started coming back. What we need is a forward base of operations in Iraq to counter the PKK. We have given Kurd all the rights we could while keeping the Turkish way intact. They have all the rights we do. Turkey does not negotiate with terrorists.

 

[Justin Joseph]

Same old BS.....Why can't they fight like a man......Soldier to soldier.....They should not complain then if the F 16s comes into the fight.

Yeah...... there are many who can't fight like a man and use terrorism.