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Kurdistani Turkmen MP: We have Turkmeni
rights 25.1.2007
By Vladimir van Wilgenburg, is a non-Kurdish writer
from Netherlands |
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January 25, 2007
In the last KRG (Kurdistan Regional Government)
Parliament session about Kirkuk, a Turkmen MP made a
speech in the parliament. It showed the
participation of Turkmen in the Kurdish region. This
was shown on the Kurdish channel Kurdistan TV.
He said: “I will say this in Turkish so Turks
understand this, we are Turkmen and not Turks”.
He also said Turkey is doing more damage to the
Turkmeni people then any good.
Also a Turkmen politician asked Turkey to stop
interfering with their business, he said why is
Turkey talking about Turkmeni rights after we got
those rights and not when Saddam was oppressing us?”
“To the Kurdish people don't let Turkey destroy our
great relations with our Turkmeni brothers and
sisters. The Turkmen front [Supported by Turkey] is
not backed by even 1/4 of the Turkmeni people!"
Recently the opposition party
CHP pressured the Turkish government to take
military action in Kurdistan. The Kurdish government
responded to a Turkish government meeting about Iraq
(Kirkuk, PKK) with a “Turkey
session”. The Kurdistani president Barzani
described
the speeches of the Turkish authorities as mere
electoral propaganda and didn't believe in these
threats.
Some Turks say that Kirkuk is a Turkmen city. They
also call for invading “Kurdistan” and taking over
Kirkuk. Yesterday I spoke with another Iraqi
official of the Iraqi embassy and she told me that
Turkey can’t occupy parts of Iraq anymore and can’t
interfere in Iraq’s sovereignty.
Earlier before Kurdish officials made it clear that
it isn’t the time of the Osman empire anymore. Also
Ataturk in the past didn’t promote the expansion of
Turkish territory.
Ilnur Cevik wrote another interesting article
about Kirkuk, he clearly says that Kirkuk has a
Kurdish majority. In the recent elections in Kirkuk
most Turkmen didn’t vote for the Turkmen front and
Kurds got 60% of the votes.
*Note: I have to thank one of my Kurdish friends
for the translations of the Kurdistan TV program.
http://vladimirkurdistan blogspot.com
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The former Iraqi president Saddam Hussein forced more than 250,000
Kurdish residents to give up their homes to Arabs in
the 1970s, to "Arabize" the city and the region's
oil industry.
Kirkuk city is a Kurdistani city and it lies just south border of the Kurdistan
autonomous region and it is not under the full
control of Kurdistan Regional Government
administration.
A referendum is to be held in late 2007 to decide
whether the oil-rich Kurdish province should be
annexed to the safe semiautonomous Kurdistan region
in Iraq's north.
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