...The incident threatens (click title to entry - thank you) to spoil efforts to forge Turkish-Kurdish consensus for a planned constitution expected to partly address the issue of rights for the Kurdish minority.
The Turkish military had said its jets launched air strikes overnight after drones spotted suspected rebels of the Kurdistan Workers' party (PKK). The military had denied there were civilians in the area.
But ruling AK Party spokesman Huseyin Celik said initial reports based on local government officials had found the victims were not militants and that most of the dead were cigarette smugglers under the age of 30....
Cigarette smugglers, diesel fuel smugglers are all about survival, either economic survival or finding a way through the winter. The reason there is any kind of smuggling market place is because the demand exists and the government doesn't provide a legitimate economy.
There was no reason for what happened. Innocent people were killed. I am quite sure if they were working for Wall Street this would be an international incident or those controlling the drone would have been better paid.
