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Belgian government site hacked by Turkish
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January 15, 2007
The website of Belgium's Defense Ministry was hacked
Sunday by a group of Turkish nationalists, news
reports said.
The group, which called itself "grandchildren of
Ottoman Empire and Children of Turkey" posted text
in English on the site defending the World War I-era
killing of Armenians in Turkey and asserting that
there was no Kurdish problem in Turkey.
It also claimed that the Kurdistan Workers Party, or
PKK, was a terrorist organisation supported by the
West, according to footage shown on RTBF, Belgium's
French-language public TV broadcaster.
There was no suggestion why the group had chosen a
Belgian government site.
Late Sunday, the site,
http://www.mil.be , was still inaccessible.
"We must clearly identify the perpetrators and take
additional measures to avoid a repetition of this in
the future," Belgian Defense Minister Andre Flahaut
told RTBF
AP
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
First world war
massacres | Related issue:
Armenian Genocide by Turkish Muslims against
Christians
Turkey faces international pressure to recognise
that more than 1 million Armenians were massacred
during a 1915 campaign of ethnic cleansing by
Ottoman Turks. Turkish officials claim that most
deaths were caused by hunger and disease.
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