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THE Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) released an open letter to US President Donald Trump on Friday, countering his claims that the liberation movement was a “bigger terrorist threat” than Isis.
Mr Trump caused outrage during a press conference last week when he hailed his decision to withdraw US troops from northern Syria as “strategically brilliant,” saying the Kurds were “not angels.”
He went on to suggest that the PKK, formed in 1978 as a response to oppression of the Kurds by the Turkish state, was “in many ways worse than Isis.”
VIJAY PRASHAD details how US support for Syrian President Ahmad al-Sharaa allowed him to break the resistance of the autonomous Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF)
Trump threatens war and punitive tariffs to recapture Iranian resources – just as in 1953, when the CIA overthrew Mossadegh and US corporations immediately seized 40% of the oil, says SEVIM DAGDELEN
