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Kurds part of Turkey’s majority, Turkey’s
President tells Italians
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By international treaty and the Turkish
constitution, Turkey’s citizens of Kurdish origin
are not seen as a minority, the president said.
January 10, 2007
Rome, Italy, --There is no such thing as a
Kurdish minority in Turkey as Turkish citizens of
Kurdish origin constitute part of the wider majority
of the Turkish nation, Turkey’s President Ahmet
Necdet Sezer said late Tuesday.
Sezer, who is in Italy for a three day official
visit, said during a meeting with Fausto Bertinotti,
the President of the Italian House of
Representatives, that according to the 1923 Lausanne
Treaty and the Turkish Constitution, Kurdish
citizens in Turkey were not seen as a minority.
The President’s comments came in response to
Bertinotti saying that there was a Kurdish problem
in Turkey and that Kurd should be granted minority
status.
In December, an Italian parliamentary commission on
foreign relations adopting a bill which urged a
political solution to what the bill described as the
Kurdish problem in Turkey. |
Italy's Prime Minister Romano Prodi (R) greets
Turkey's President Ahmet Necdet Sezer at a
government meeting house at Villa Doria-Pamphili in
Rome January 10, 2007
Photo: Reuters |
On Tuesday night, while attending a dinner hosted by
Italian President Giorgio Napolitano, Sezer said
that Turkey was keen to co-operate with Italy, which
he said was a natural partner.
“Our views about Europe’s security and political
structure are similar to each other,” said the
Turkish President. “The universal values creating
Europe are shaping up the common future of our
countries.”
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The use of the term "Kurdistan" is vigorously
rejected due to its alleged political implications
by the Republic of Turkey, which does not recognize
the existence of a "Turkish Kurdistan"
Southeast Turkey. The Kurds have no rights in
Turkey.
Others estimate as many as 40 million Kurds live in
Big Kurdistan (Iraq, Turkey, Syria, Iran, Armenia),
which covers an area as big as France, about half of
all Kurds which estimate to 20 million live in
Turkey.
The Kurdish flag flown officially in Iraqi Kurdistan but
unofficially flown by Kurds in Armenia. The flag is
banned in Iran, Syria, and Turkey where flying it is
a criminal offence"
Southeastern Turkey:
North Kurdistan (
Kurdistan-Turkey) wikipedia
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