PKK and German Connection | Monument(al) Errors.
German Secret Service always kept a close eye on Turkey and the activities of PKK. domestically and internationally.
The German government faced an angry reaction from Turkey and accusations of hypocrisy from its own opposition. German weekly Der Spiegel reported on Sunday that Germany's BND | Bundesnachrichtendienst secret service[*] had spied on Turkey since 2009 after its large trading partner and NATO ally.
[*]The BND acts as an early warning system to alert the German government to threats to German interests from abroad. It depends heavily on wiretapping and electronic surveillance of international communications. It collects and evaluates information on a variety of areas such as international non-state terrorism, weapons of mass destruction proliferation and illegal transfer of technology, organized crime, weapons and drug trafficking, money laundering, illegal migration and information warfare.
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Mavi Boncuk |
On Tuesday an armed conflict broke out between Turkish security forces and Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) members in Lice, near Diyarbakır. Tension over a statue of one of the first commanders of the PKK, Mahsum Korkmaz[1], which has been erected in a cemetery in Lice, turned into an armed confrontation.
Other monuments[2] were erected before including the remains of Andrea Wolf (Kurdish nickname: Ronahî, born January 15, 1965 in Munich, died October 23, 1998 in Çatak, Van province, Turkey) was a former Baader-Meinhof terrorist and radical leftist activist[3]. She was a PKK (ARGK) militant in the Kurdish women’s army YAJK | Yekitiya Azadiya Jinen Kurdistan.
Four known German nationals who trained in PKK camps and were actively fighting in the military units of the Kurdish organizations were Eva (code name Kani) Juhnke, Vera (code name Medya) Heesne, Ulrich (code name Cektar) Maichle, and Jorg Ulrich.
"A group of 40 PKK terrorists attacked yesterday security forces carrying out operations in Hatay province. Six PKK terrorists and two soldiers were killed in the clashes. One soldier who has wounded has been hospitalized.
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Through blackmail, threats, and violence, it continues to collect funds from the hundreds of thousands of Kurds in Germany, the Netherlands, and elsewhere, and it receives massive amounts of money from its drug and illegal migrant trafficking there. The PKK operations in Western Europe were led by relatively well-educated people with extensive international support from governments (Greece having been the most prominent) and groups in Western countries (Germany, Benelux, and Scandinavian states). Some local government, such as the Basques’ in Spain, openly supported the PKK, its terrorist methods notwithstanding. Prominent leftist government parties and individuals in Italy, Russia, and Greece publicly helped Ocalan during his failed attempts to find political asylum, and most of the remnants of Germany’s Marxist terrorists supported and occasionally participated in PKK combat operations.
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[1]Mahsum Korkmaz b.Silvan 1956 , Turkey d. March 28, 1986 Mount Gabar.
Mahsum Korkmaz, also known as Agit, was the first commander of the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK)'s military forces. He is known to have led the 15 August 1984 PKK attacks which was the start of the PKK's armed rebellion for Kurdish independence. He was killed under controversial conditions on March 28, 1986, by an assasin on the orders of PKK leadership or by Turkish forces.
The PKK's main training facility during the 1980s and early 1990s, the Mahsum Korkmaz Academy, which was located in the Lebanon's Beqaa Valley was named after him. Today, Mahsum Korkmaz is honored in the form of many commemoration days by the Kurdish Movement.
[2] A monument has been constructed in the village of Kelahêrê (Andiçen) in Wan’s Çatak district for 24 PKK (Kurdistan Worker’s Party) combatants who fighting Turkish Army units on October 23, 1998.
[3] There was a warrant out for Andrea Wolf in Germany, as she was accused of having participated in terrorist activities, more precisely the complete destruction of the deportation prison in Weiterstadt by a huge detonation. She was suspected of having assisted the Red Army Fraction in carrying out the attack. Destroyed prison in Weiterstadt, 1993. At this point, in 1996, she chose to go to Kurdistan in order to join the womens’ army of the so-called PKK. She took on the name “Ronahi,” trained, and lived with the womens’ army for quite a while, mostly in camps in Northern Iraq.
German Secret Service always kept a close eye on Turkey and the activities of PKK. domestically and internationally.
The German government faced an angry reaction from Turkey and accusations of hypocrisy from its own opposition. German weekly Der Spiegel reported on Sunday that Germany's BND | Bundesnachrichtendienst secret service[*] had spied on Turkey since 2009 after its large trading partner and NATO ally.
[*]The BND acts as an early warning system to alert the German government to threats to German interests from abroad. It depends heavily on wiretapping and electronic surveillance of international communications. It collects and evaluates information on a variety of areas such as international non-state terrorism, weapons of mass destruction proliferation and illegal transfer of technology, organized crime, weapons and drug trafficking, money laundering, illegal migration and information warfare.
Mavi Boncuk | On Tuesday an armed conflict broke out between Turkish security forces and Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) members in Lice, near Diyarbakır. Tension over a statue of one of the first commanders of the PKK, Mahsum Korkmaz[1], which has been erected in a cemetery in Lice, turned into an armed confrontation.
Other monuments[2] were erected before including the remains of Andrea Wolf (Kurdish nickname: Ronahî, born January 15, 1965 in Munich, died October 23, 1998 in Çatak, Van province, Turkey) was a former Baader-Meinhof terrorist and radical leftist activist[3]. She was a PKK (ARGK) militant in the Kurdish women’s army YAJK | Yekitiya Azadiya Jinen Kurdistan.
Four known German nationals who trained in PKK camps and were actively fighting in the military units of the Kurdish organizations were Eva (code name Kani) Juhnke, Vera (code name Medya) Heesne, Ulrich (code name Cektar) Maichle, and Jorg Ulrich.
"A group of 40 PKK terrorists attacked yesterday security forces carrying out operations in Hatay province. Six PKK terrorists and two soldiers were killed in the clashes. One soldier who has wounded has been hospitalized.
At the same time, the trial of Eva Junke, a German national suspected of fighting together with the PKK terrorist organization, began yesterday in Van. Junke was caught during clashes between the Turkish Armed Forces and the PKK terrorist organization last September" Turkish Press Review, 98-03-20
See Also:Trial Statement By Eva Juhnke | Eva (code name Kani) Tatjana Ursula Juhnke (Convicted to 15 years in jail in 1998 and was released in 2004. She was returned to Germany. She sued the Turkish Government.
Read: In the case of Juhnke v. Turkey, The European Court of Human Rights JUDGMENT, STRASBOURG | 13 May 2008
Mahsum Korkmaz, also known as Agit, was the first commander of the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK)'s military forces. He is known to have led the 15 August 1984 PKK attacks which was the start of the PKK's armed rebellion for Kurdish independence. He was killed under controversial conditions on March 28, 1986, by an assasin on the orders of PKK leadership or by Turkish forces.
The PKK's main training facility during the 1980s and early 1990s, the Mahsum Korkmaz Academy, which was located in the Lebanon's Beqaa Valley was named after him. Today, Mahsum Korkmaz is honored in the form of many commemoration days by the Kurdish Movement.
[2] A monument has been constructed in the village of Kelahêrê (Andiçen) in Wan’s Çatak district for 24 PKK (Kurdistan Worker’s Party) combatants who fighting Turkish Army units on October 23, 1998.
[3] There was a warrant out for Andrea Wolf in Germany, as she was accused of having participated in terrorist activities, more precisely the complete destruction of the deportation prison in Weiterstadt by a huge detonation. She was suspected of having assisted the Red Army Fraction in carrying out the attack. Destroyed prison in Weiterstadt, 1993. At this point, in 1996, she chose to go to Kurdistan in order to join the womens’ army of the so-called PKK. She took on the name “Ronahi,” trained, and lived with the womens’ army for quite a while, mostly in camps in Northern Iraq.