1. As I predicted #Taliban are murdering the people who teach girls. This is clearly terrorism and the @StateDept and @WhiteHouse must move to re-list the Taliban as a FTO. If the measure is that they are not directly threatening an attack on the US, then why is the
https://twitter.com/MSharif1990/status/1417778498656219136
2. #PKK listed? Taliban terrorizes civilians. The PKK is supported by the civilian population in Northern Kurdistan and along Iraqi border. Turkish occupation forces are the party conducting what could be defined under US law as terrorist operations in Kurdistan not the PKK.
3. The use of the listing process for political expedience IMO voids every charge under FTO listings because it is used as a mechanism to advance US policy goals and not a legitimate definition of an element of a criminal offense. It is used to impair first amendment rights of US
4. citizens to question government policy where as here Turkey is actually allied with #Daesh and al-#Qaeda and the PKK is fighting the jihadists including the Turkish AKP that by any definition is a Daesh and Al-Qaeda affiliate. To sum, we need to consider de-listing the PKK
5. and re-listing the Taliban who are murdering people who teach girls. The reason the Turkish jihadists have common ground with the Taliban, as Erdogan admitted, is because both act to enslave women & girls in Turkey, Syria and now apparently in Afghanistan as the Taliban's BFF.
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