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Communıst Groups,

the PKK Employs

Guerrılla Tactıcs

The separatist, terrorist PKK, a ruthless group that constantly lies
in ambush for Turkish troops, shoots them in the back, that attacks
them in the barracks or in police stations during ceasefires and that
perpetrates various and sundry attacks against the civilian population
in city centers, is simply employing the most cunning tactic of the com-
munist mentality – guerrilla warfare. Some writers or state officials

from time to time criticize the terror organization for "behaving dis-
gracefully" by committing these treacherous attacks, or "breaking the
rules." But these messages of condemnation will produce no results,
and are in fact just what communist PKK militants want to hear
because communism is an ideology that draws its strength from sav-
agery, bloodshed and terror and grows by means of treacherous guer-
rilla tactics. A communist militant has no feelings of compassion, love,
affection or sympathy, and such people certainly recognize no bounds,
rules or legal standards. Communists' greatest objectives are to attack,

in whatever way possible, to carry out acts of violence, using whatev-
er method is available, and to kill as many people as possible. In order
to achieve these aims, faced by an army with military rules and the
laws of war, the most effective and productive thing for them to do is

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