WIKILEAKS, — There are no reports on US support for the Kurdistan Worker’s Party on wikileaks documents as claimed by the Turkish press. It’s reported that Turkish army sources deliberately leaked the information on US-PKK relations.
As wikileaks website published secret documents of United States on Iraq and US-Turkey relations, the most controversial information was about US support for the PKK. Turkish media reported that there are reports by the American officials which call PKK “freedom fighters”. There were also reports of alleged US military support to the PKK.
But there were no such information on Wikileak’s 400,000 documents.
A memorandum of US Embassy says that the false claims of US support to the PKK are deliberately leaked by the Turkish army to affect the outcome of 2007 general elections.
The memorandum says the army was trying to influence the public opinion on a cross border military operation to Iraq against the Kurdish guerrillas.
“Despite analysts’ claims of military confidence, the generals are clearly working behind the scenes, using ongoing PKK terrorism and the debate over the necessity of a cross-border operation into northern Iraq to portray the AKP as weak on terrorism. We also detect the military’s hand behind recent allegations that the U.S. has, either directly or indirectly, provided weapons to the PKK in northern Iraq. This is also designed to weaken AKP’s national security credentials and encourage undecided voters to turn to “tougher” pro-secular parties. While the military could roil the waters and make a public statement on the elections at any time, its post-election reaction may be delayed by the August 1 start of annual, and all-consuming, Supreme Military Council (YAS) promotions and assignments deliberations” the memorandum says.
Wikileaks published more than 400,000 US secret documents yesterday.
In July, Wikileaks released more than 70,000 military reports on the US-led war in Afghanistan and in October nearly 400,000 reports on the US-led invasion of Iraq.
The website stated in a posting on its Twitter page on November 21 that the next release will be seven times larger than the Iraq war logs exposed last month.