Piling wrote:Oh some other Kurds did it. In 94 in Zaxo I met a peshmerga comamndant who has made war with Fatah in Lebanon. It was the time when the "International Socialist Revolution goes through Palestine, Che Guevara and Vietnam"...
Fortunately, though they called themselves "socialist" KDP was always septical about "International Socialism Brotherhood bla bla bla". Feudal ppl, tss
I don't think it simple because of the socialist wave. It had more to do with the fact that there was bi-polar world system. Turkey was being supported by the USA as a member of NATO. Any organization that challenged Turkish fascism could only have allied itself with USSR. This was the rule. Keep in mind that America was supporting Turkish military. And getting help from USSR meant traning in Lebanon. There is an interesting article regarding this matter by Recep Marasli. He points out how Arap nationalists (palestinians) employed this to their advantage and equated palestinian cause with anti-imperialism. It helps explain why the left is so obsessed with palestine and so anti-jewish, even though they try to masquarade it as anti-zionism.
So I think Kurdish organizations in the north had no choice. It was the end result of strategic powers limiting the choices made by regional forces. however after the collapse of the Soviet block things changed and they could have distanced themselves from Palestinians. There was an interesting discussion between Ismail Besikci and Mustafa Karasu regarding this in the early 90s. Ismail Besikci (even though he was a Turk) was advocating that Kurds should not fall for Arap chauvinism and form links with Israel etc. However, I guess Apo was way to confortable in Syria to allow for such a development.
