The West is a pretty big place <g> It probably depends on which news source. Reuters news service, for example, has banned the word "Terrorist" for anybody.
I certainly understand why Turkey considers the PKK terrorists.
As to Afghanistan - or just about anyplace - a guy with a rifle shooting at soldiers is a fighter of some kind. He may be a guerilla or a soldier or a revolutionary or traitor - depending on which side you are on. I may be able to respect him, even as I try to kill him. I can at least understand why he may feel he is morally right.
But a person who sends a child into a marketplace with a bomb strapped to his body, killing without care as to whom he kills, is a terrorist. I think he has committed a sin against the Universe.
I think you would agree.
>Two face of the west ; "Turkish troops say they have killed 10 guerrillas in the southeast since Monday"
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>We never calls PKK as gerillas. They're terrorists...
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>West calls them as gerillas. But west calls Afgan soldiers as "terrorists".
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>When USA called West world for fight with terrorism, all west countries tributed with USA. But we're fighting with terrorism from 30 years... Where is the west?
Charles Hankey
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- Thomas Hardy
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