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* "The Kurdish history
is dark. Not one single source in social sciences
such as history, archeology, anthropology,
geography, ethnography and philology indicates in
any way the existence of a 'Kurdish history'."
* "The primitive language Kurdish is not a language
of culture and is only an local 'agreement'."
* "The issue is nothing more than the 'Kurdification'
of Turkmen societies in East and Southeast Anatolia,
and nothing more than a cultural assimilation. 'Turkishness'
is in no way a reference system that recognizes the
superiority of an origin or a race, and can never
be. If somebody says "I'm a Turk" it doesn't mean
that they are denying their ethnic identity or their
origin. But to say "I'm from Turkey" instead of "I'm
a Turk" is to deny a sociological truth and give in
to ignorance."
The provocations by the YURT-SAV are expected to
increase the tension in the Kurdish capital of Amed
(Diyarbakir).
The Turkish nationalistic institution YURT-SAV calls
itself an alternative "Human Rights Association" and
is run by relatives to Turkish soldiers killed in
clashes with the PKK.
YURT-SAV have started controversies before in Amed.
During the "Human Rights Week" organized on December
10-17, 2004, by NGO's in Amed, the YURT-SAV showed a
movie called "terror" produced by the institution.
The movie was shown to students and had explicit war
scenes from places like Iraq, Palestine, Pakistan,
Afghanistan, Jerusalem, Chechnya and many other
places in the Middle East where soldiers had
attacked and killed civilians. But not one single
reference was made to the violence in Kurdistan by
the Turkish army. Instead, they showed pictures of
civilians allegedly killed by the PKK.
The Turkish government are trying to campaign
anti-Kurdish and anti-PKK books in northern
Kurdistan. Among the books given out for free by the
Turkish government are "APO" by the informer Semdin
Sakik, "How to be a women in the PKK" by Necat
Buldan and "Apo's verses" by Selim Curukkaya. All
these writers are complaining about a low sale in
Kurdistan and accuses the PKK to behind it.
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