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T Those who fall into the trap of the PKK

It is an acknowledged fact that there is a segment of people in the
Western world who are acutely ensnared in the plot of the PKK, and
who imagine that the easiest way to create a democratic Kurdistan is

to support the PKK; what's worse is that those people mistakenly
define the PKK as an ethnic Kurdish movement. This propaganda is
mainly carried out in regard to the PYD in Syria, which is actually a
part of the PKK. That is because the PYD is not listed in the terrorist
organizations lists of various countries, unlike the PKK, and that
makes it easier to carry out these speculations through the PYD. This
point will be more comprehensively analyzed in the following lines.
Let us now look into the dimensions of the support the West pro-
vides, knowing or not knowing the real face of the PKK.

Sensitivity of the Western world

about Kobane

When we look at the course of events starting from after the First

World War, which is the starting point of the plans about Kurdistan
in the concrete sense, till today, we see that due to international
alliances such as NATO, the UN, etc., the plans made regarding the
Middle East could not be voiced overtly as they used to be. Although
secret agreements such as Sykes-Picot and dreadful agreements such
as the Treaty of Sévres do not exist in our day, the plan that is to be
implemented is essentially the same plan.

Within the scope of these plans, recently, it has been possible to
see the sensitivity of the Western world in the current Kurdish
regions starkly once again. We know that the Arab Spring protests,
which started in 2011, hit Syria in particular quite strongly and

brought it to the brink of destruction. ISIL (Islamic State of Iraq and

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