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Kyle Orton‏Verified account @KyleWOrton Jul 9

The CIA (1985) worried that the #PKK insurgency would divert #Turkey from its #NATO obligations. This was the purpose of the Soviet Union in backing the PKK, though, interestingly, while the CIA sees a Soviet hand, it quite strongly denies the possibility of Soviet support.pic.twitter.com/1isBnsNrxT

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Kyle Orton‏Verified account @KyleWOrton Jul 9

The CIA (1985) concludes it's "probably unrealistic" that Asad's #Syria or Qaddafi's #Libya would provide "large-scale" support for the #PKK.pic.twitter.com/lj6oRqsMUQ

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This was flatly mistaken with respect to #Syria, which built the #PKK into a viable insurgency and sheltered and supported it ever-afterwards. In Cold War terms, Syria acted as a cut-out for the Soviets, especially in dealing with terrorist groups.https://twitter.com/KyleWOrton/status/1016364885972783106 …

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The CIA (1985) concludes it's "probably unrealistic" that Asad's #Syria or Qaddafi's #Libya would provide "large-scale" support for the #PKK. pic.twitter.com/lj6oRqsMUQ

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Kyle Orton‏Verified account @KyleWOrton Jul 9

By late 1986, CIA seems to have a better handle on the #PKK, particularly its support from Asad's #Syria and its near-total dominance of a sustainable insurgency against #Turkey, as well as its ruthlessness towards Kurds who dissent from their doctrine. https://bit.ly/2L2K38H pic.twitter.com/yyCw3mjinJ

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The CIA makes a specific reference to Cetin Gungor as one of the #PKK dissidents who was murdered in Europe. He had set up the group's European wing in 1981.https://twitter.com/kyleworton/status/854646597304692737 …

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Cetin Gungor (Semir): advocated for internal democracy in #PKK, so they hunted him through three countries and assassinated him in Sweden. pic.twitter.com/89Ul7efVR8

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Kyle Orton‏Verified account @KyleWOrton Jul 9

Even by 1986, the extent of the #PKK's surveillance of the Kurdish diaspora and its own operations in Europe, and its willingness to murder [suspected] dissenters is clear, as is the extortion of these populations and the front-groups used to get do it.pic.twitter.com/xhAeqdlmqu

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Kyle Orton‏Verified account @KyleWOrton Jul 9

The CIA report [1986] includes a section on the "circumstantial evidence" the #PKK was involved in killing Swedish Prime Minister Olaf Palme in February of that year.pic.twitter.com/LTrMa2Bdu4

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Kyle Orton‏Verified account @KyleWOrton Jul 9

The CIA concludes [Dec. 1986] that whatever success #Turkey was having in suppressing #PKK terrorism internally was not affecting the PKK abroad; that even in Turkey the PKK was able to attack #NATO installations; and #Syria was providing the PKK crucial cross-border assistance.pic.twitter.com/YPjCN6Kj2K

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Kyle Orton‏Verified account @KyleWOrton Jul 9

CIA gives a list of people the #PKK assassinated in Europe between 1979 and 1986.pic.twitter.com/ioAwn4u98O

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Kyle Orton‏Verified account @KyleWOrton Jul 9

CIA report: in Jan. 1996, the #PKK: - assassinated one of its members in Adana, #Turkey - stopped a bus in Kocyurdu, "shot and killed one of the passengers" before they "set the vehicle on fire, killing the remaining passengers trapped in the bus" https://bit.ly/2zlWgE7 pic.twitter.com/6YH2dDseFK

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Kyle Orton‏Verified account @KyleWOrton Jul 9

Less brief than intended, but hopefully underlines some points about #PKK: - It was on the other side in the Cold War - It always focused on dissident Kurds and Leftists as much as #Turkey - It's foreign terrorism apparatus in Europe is extensive [and extant] <End thread>

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1. tgnlnv‏ @tgnlnv Jul 9
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  Yet Europe still doesn't get why Turkey keeps bringing up the PKK presence in Europe and why TUkey calls them idiots for releasing ISIS terrorists onto European streets to commit terrorism after Turkey gift wraps them to their police complete with their ISIS id cards.
  
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