Kurdish militant group PKK says it carried out Ankara attack
This is the headline from a Reuters article dated 10/25/24. It brings up and highlights some uncomfortable hypocrisy around the world regarding terrorism and a claimed right to strike at sovereign nations who provide funds, weapons and other support to known terror groups who attack other sovereign nations and in particular as it concerns NATO, Article 5 and Turkey.
Since Turkey is a member of NATO and Article 5 supposedly provides that an attack on one is an attack on all how do we square the US and other countries allied with us knowingly providing funding and weapons to the Kurds when we know they do terror attacks on NATO member Turkey? Yes, yes I know all about how we use them to fight in Syria but long before that we and others continued to provide support despite knowing about their terror attacks against Turkey.
I'm no lover of Erdogan but, in this era of claiming righteousness to attack anywhere and everywhere any nation that provides support to groups committing terrorist acts, how do we justify in this world a logical stance regarding these matters when clearly not all terrorist groups and their supporting nations are subject to a so called "right of reprisal"? Should Turkey be on solid ground to demand that same right as others to attack other sovereign nations who are knowingly providing support to groups well known for committing terror attacks on Turkey? If not then on what basis do we say it's OK for one but not another? Do we just go "we like you so it's OK and we don't like the other guy so over in that country it's not OK?" Sounds to me like a foreign policy and supposed Charter for Mutual Defense that is not built on consistent criteria and application but rather has no serious dependable foundation so much as it has a foundation about as firm as mush. When does our hypocrisy come back to bite us?
https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/kurdish-militant-group-pkk-says-it-carried-out-ankara-attack-2024-10-25/