The civil war in Turkey

Gateway Pundit has the story of resistance to governemnt forces.

Protesters throw stones to the riot police as they stand in front of a burning barricade during clashes in southeastern Turkish city of Diyarbakir, March 30, 2006. The violence erupted on Tuesday after funeral ceremonies for 14 guerrillas of the banned Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), killed by security forces in a military operation last weekend. (REUTERS/Anatolian News Agency)

Turkey is experiencing its worst street fights in a decade as police and Kurdish fighters continue to clash in the southwest:

Kurdish rioters have clashed with police in southeastern Turkey in a second day of violence that has left at least three people dead and 250 injured.

The fighting on Wednesday was the worst street fighting in the region in a decade and began after the funerals of four Kurdish fighters who were killed in fighting with Turkish soldiers.

The provincial governor said that between 2500 and 3000 Kurds rioted in Diyarbakir, the largest city in the overwhelmingly Kurdish region, damaging government offices, private businesses and banks.

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You will note that this story has more elements of a civil war than the sectarian violence in Baghdad. Here you have people actually confronting goverment forces and resisting and rioting. When is the last time that happened in Iraq? Instead in Iraq you have a situation more closely comparable to a gang turf war, where groups are fighting each other, but not the goverment. In fact, in Iraq, the people behind the violence avoid contact with US and Iraqi forces. None of the gangs even have a plan to replace the goverment. A gang war is not a civil war. Someone tell the media.