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29.10.2007
By Dana Berzinjy - eKurd.net contributing writer |
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What
Right Does the Turkish Parliament have To Send Its
Own Army, to Shell, and Launch Attacks on the
Sovereignty of Iraq, and the Kurdistan Regional
Government? Is Not This Invasion is a Breach of the
International Law?
October
29, 2007
Sydney, Dana Berzinjy, (eKurd.net), -- There
is a conflict between the Turkish Army and the
Turkish Government in Turkey. The Army Generals want
to control the power of the Government and the
people of Turkey. On Wednesday 17th October 2007,
the Turkish Parliament has decided to send its
troops to Kurdistan of Iraq to wipe out the Kurdish
Freedom Fighters from the Mountains of Qandil. I
believe the Turkish Parliament should have acted
wisely and in a modern way to solve the conflict
between the Army and the Turkish Government on one
hand and between the PKK and the Turkish Government
on the other. But unfortunately, the Turkish
Parliament acted strangely and in a foolish way,
without been able to solve the dispute between them. |
Dana
Berzinjy |
The question of the Kurdish issue has been going on
for centuries, but none of the previous Turkish
Government was able to solve this issue. They always
try to avoid the dialogue between the Kurdish
representatives, and the Turkish Government. They
have always blamed the Kurdish representatives as
separatists, without trying to tackle, and solve the
dispute in a radical way. They have always avoided
granting the rights of the other nationalities in
Turkey, and their rights were denied. The recent
conflict between the Turkish government, and PKK
freedom fighters started in 1984, it’s not a new
issue, just came up yesterday, but the Turkish
parliament always acted in a naive way and followed
the footprints of their infamous former Dictator
Ata-Turk. They think in an old fashioned way, and
still they believe every nation has to be a slave,
and serve their collapsed former Othman Empire. They
have no respect whatsoever for the other
nationalities that have been living in Turkey
thousands of years before their arrival. The Turkish
Parliament should have acted in a democratic way and
not dictate the people of Turkey. Why the Turkish
history in 21st of century has to repeat itself over
and over? May be because Turkish Government does not
believe in change and democracy.
During World War I, the Turkish Othman Empire
genocide and massacre over 1,500,000 Armenian
Citizens and 700,000 Kurds, and launched attacks on
civilians and destroyed thousands of villages,
country towns and cities in Turkey. They are
recently condemned by the International Community
for the massacre, which had done against Armenians;
especially by the USA Congress in their assembly
recognized the massacre of the Armenians was
genocide. This is a great success for the Armenian
people, and for the whole entire humanity. This is
the best decision has ever done by the USA Congress,
people in the World look at American Government as a
model of democracy. The suppressed people in the
world such as the Kurdish, Armenians, Assyrians, and
Sudanese, former Yugoslavia, Burmese and other
nationalities are expecting more from the USA to
judge at the things fairly, and without
discrimination. This is also should be a duty of the
United Nation to follow injustice in the past, and
in recent century, in the World. The United Nation
should not keep quiet at the genocide like
Armenians, and the Kurds. This is shame on the UN.
I want to say this decision is a brave decision by
the US Congress, and everybody supports this great
decision against in justice in the past and the
violation of the civilians by the Othman Empire in
1915. The Turkish Parliament should have done
something in a good manner in regard to the
recognition of the Armenian genocide by the US, and
the Turkish Parliament should have pushed the
Turkish government to apologies to the Armenians and
the World for the massacre. But unfortunately,
instead, the Turkish government is going to make
another huge mistake against the Iraqi Kurds, and
the Kurds that live in Turkey, by bombarding the
villagers on the border. The Turkish Government
wants to add another dark and racist page into their
dark and infamous history. Is it not shame on the
Turkish parliament to abuse the rights of its own
citizens, and attack on the sovereignty of Iraq? By
doing this, the Turkish government is going to
breach the International law (Articles 41 and 42 of
the UN), and they should be liable for any damages
and for their crimes against the Kurdish villagers.
Do the Kurdish people have no rights to defense
themselves against the Turkish Barbarian assaults?
The Turkish Army since 1984 has launched hundreds of
assaults against Kurdish civilians and against
Kurdish Freedom Fighters. The Kurdish people in
Turkey have asked the government thousand times to
find a solution to their demands, but always their
demands for their rights, for instance, democracy,
freedom of culture, and language barriers, have been
put under the blanket. They are always blamed for
breaking up the sovereignty of the Turkish state.
If the Turkish parliament is so keen to keep the
country united, why don’t they believe in the rights
of Armenians, Assyrians, Arabs, Kurds and even
Turks? The Turkish Parliament knows very well that
the Turkish government had been united together
under enormous force and power by the former
dictator Ata-Turk, and all the Governments that have
ruled in Turkey. I believe the other nationalities
in Turkey do not want to live together any more,
under the Turkish oppressor to face genocide by the
racist government of Turkey. The infamous genocide
against the Armenian in 1915 is a clear example that
proves my argument. All the nationalities in Turkey
have seen and gone through, torture, capture and
genocide. What about the Kurdish genocide in the
same year as Armenians as the result more than
700,000 Kurds slaughtered by the Turks. What about
the genocide that the Turkish Army committed in 1990
against the Kurdish people, at the consequences of
the imposed war against the Kurdish homeland in
Southeastern Turkey (North Kurdistan), more than
3000 villages ruined, and flattened with the ground?
Is not the Turkish Government is responsible and
should pay a good price for its actions?
This is the Turkish democratic government of Turkey,
and wants to join the European Union. And how? I
believe the Turkish government is very naïve, and
can not hide all the crimes, for so long under a
blanket, so a day will come, sooner or later. I am
sure they will have to pay a good price for their
actions. I think even the Turkish citizens of Turkey
are not happy with this racist policy, and the
constitution’s of Turkey, because the Parliament
does not try to solve the conflict between all the
nationalities in peaceful way. The parliament itself
creates division and racist between Kurds, Turks and
other minority citizens in Turkey. The Turkish State
of Terror needs to change and amend the Turkish
racist Constitution. Where is the International
Court and what is the United Nation doing? The
rights of the biggest nation without a state in the
World have been denied and ignored for so long!
If Turkey has a right to protect its territory
against any attack from the PKK and the PKK as well
has a right to defend the Kurdish homeland, and its
own troops against the attacks of the Turkish Army.
Whatever, it takes to stop these barbarian attacks.
We know the Turkish Government, and the parliament
do not protect the Kurdish people from the Turkish
Nazi Parties, and the humiliation of the Army. In
reality the Turkish government does not represent
the Kurdish people, and the Turkish government is
against the wishes of the Kurdish people, which is
democracy. Kurds want to represent themselves as a
Kurdish nation not as Turkish Kurds. The Turkish
government should learn from the experiences of
other nationalities, for example, the former
Yugoslavia, and Russia. These countries split up
into independent countries, even not into states
within a Federal Government. If Turkey is worried
about the unity of Turkey, the Turkish Government
should give rights to the Kurdish people to have its
own state, within the Federation of Turkey, and
create a government to have a (Federation System)
FD, by doing this, Turkey stays united and does not
split and will get rid of violence among its
citizens. The World has got so many examples such
as, the Australian Federation Government. It has six
states and two territories, each state and territory
has got its own parliament, ministers, and its own
capital. I want to tell the Turkish parliament, our
system of federation and democracy is the best
example in the World. Even our population is
22,000,000, million comparison to Turkey which is
almost 70, 000.000 million people. What is wrong
with this system? Why the Turkish State of terror,
so stubborn, and does not learn from the rest of the
World? The power of one nation government is called
dictatorship government, that is now old fashioned
and does not serve the interests of all the
nationalities that live in Turkey. This power needs
to be split and be shared among the all citizens in
Turkey.
The European Union, on the other hand, blames Turkey
for undertaking violence against PKK and the Kurdish
nation. I want to say that the Turkish State of
Terror knows the government of Iraqi Kurdistan well,
and is not responsible for whatever happens between
the PKK, the Kurdish Freedom Fighters, and the
Turkish Government, because PKK has been in Turkey
since its creation in 1970. It’s also some of the
PKK, Kurdish Freedom Fighters have been in Qandil
Mountains, and other areas since 1984, during the
former Iraqi executed Dictator Saddam Hussein. If
the Turkish Government is that brave, why did it not
ask the former Iraqi Dictator about PKK issues in
the past? Or Turkey thinks that Iraq has not got a
strong Army, and can not fight back and this is a
good opportunity for the Turkish Army to invade
Iraq. Regional Government (KRG) does not give
shelter to the PKK Kurdish Freedom Fighters, and
this is wrong allegation by the Turkish State of
Terror. The PKK is just an excuse that Turkey uses
against the wishes of the Iraqi Kurds, and against
the Democratic Federal of Iraq
Iraq and Iraqi Kurdistan have all the rights to
claim the sovereignty of their country, if Turkey
assumes that Iraq has no control over remote parts
of land where the PKK Freedom Fighters are hiding,
Turkey is mistaken, because PKK fighters, are not
hiding in Iraqi Kurdistan, and they are mobile
fighters, and move from one place to another place.
They are in fight with the Turkish Army in the
province of Hakari and the other cities in Kurdish
region in Turkey. It’s easier for Turkey to capture
their leaders like how they caught Mr. Ocalan in the
past, and then they can settle their differences in
Turkey not in Iraqi Kurdistan. Yes, Turkey asks the
Kurdish, and the Iraqi leaders then the United
Stated of America to capture the PKK leaders. If
they are so easy to be captured, why the Turkish
Government is not going to do it? Why another
country have to do the job for Turkey? Do the PKK
Freedom Fighters part of the Turkish internal
political problem, or Iraq? The answer is not Iraq’s
problem. I think Turkey is wrong, because Turkey
itself is part of the problem too not Iraq or USA.
Turkish Parliament instead to give illegal power to
the Turkish Army to invade Iraq, they should have
grant the rights of democracy and freedom to the
Kurdish nation whose been struggling hard, and
bitterly for centuries in order to save themselves,
from the hands of Turkish Governments.
Turkey needs to think twice for peace and stability
of Turkey, and the region instead of going far
inside Kurdistan of Iraq to attack PKK, and to abuse
the rights of the Iraqi Kurds. The Kurdish Freedom
Fighters are not going to wait for the Turkish
Government to capture them, and they can easily go
and slip into Turkey. The Turkish government should
move to integrate Kurdish community in the political
system in a better way to give a better chance, and
attract the PKK to participate to build a true
democratic state of Turkey, not just the name, and
exclude 25 million Kurdish citizens from their
rights. Turkey needs to release the PKK founder Mr.
Abdullah Ocalan from a life sentence in a Turkish
prison, and forgive him for what happened in the
past between the Turkish Government, and the PKK
Freedom Fighters. Turkish conspiracy to capture him
in Kenya in 1999, made the PKK, and the Kurdish
nation agitated by inhuman behavior by the Turkish
Army members against their leader. They should have
come into an agreement instead. The Turkish
Government recently has blamed the Kurdish Regional
Government by getting aid from Israel, but the
Turkish government soon forgot the support of the
USA, and the Israeli Intelligent Services in
capturing Mr. Ocalan in 1999. Everybody knows who
gets support from Israel. Which country in the
Middle East has got treaty signed between Israel and
Turkey? The Turkish Government should have learned
from the stories of the famous South African leader
Mr. Nelson Mandela, which was released after 27
years in prison. Then, afterward the country united
firmly on the bases of brotherhood between the dark
skin people, and the Whites.
I remember the PKK leader Mr. Ocalan announced for
peace from his prison on Imrali Island in the Sea of
Marmara, and told PKK Freedom Fighters to cease
violence and seek political solution in regard to
Kurdish problems in Turkey. But, the Turkish
Government did not pay attention critically. The
party was also changed its name from PKK to the
Kurdistan Freedom and Democracy Congress, and then
to Knogra-Gel later on, and politically it was a
good sign in terms of the ideological change that
took place in the party, but it was ignored by the
Turkish government. So the Turkish Government did
not take positive steps to grab the opportunity to
get into peace process. I know that Turkey has lost
thousands people in the conflict with PKK and lost
billions of $US in the war, in the worthless war in
the south-east Kurdish region in the country since
1984. Kurds and Turks are victims of the wrong
policy, and constitution of the Turkish Racist
Government. The Turkish barbarian Army destroyed
thousands of Kurdish villages and the Kurdish people
lost Billions of US Dollars in the war, which is a
thousand times more than the loss from the Turkish
side. But, the Kurdish rights are still not
recognized, except a few changes. The power in
Turkey is in the hands of Army generals, so that’s
why the Parliament could not avoid these losses.
It is Turkish primarily responsibility to stop the
conflict and violence instantly in Turkey, and the
government needs to give its strength, and power
back to the people of Turkey. The parliament needs
to pass an Act of law to grant protection to the PKK
fighters who fight the Turkish Government in the
mountains, villages, country towns and all the
cities in (North of Kurdistan), Southeastern Turkey,
and grant immensity to the PKK fighters because it
is much better for the benefit of Turkey, than to
give approval to launch a war against the Kurdish
Freedom Fighters. The Turkish Government and its
leaders can not achieve victory except the defeat as
they have seen it previously by launching aggressive
behavior, and war against the Kurds, and Iraqis.
Only peace can give the Turkish Government, and the
Parliament to be accepted by the entire world, and
if they could free Mr. Abdullah Ocalan and permit
the exiled villagers to get back safely to their
villages and cities.
The World became a global village through media and
the new technology. The entire World is looking at
the Turkish P.M. Erdogan to see if he is able to
show the World that they have achieved peace,
freedom and democracy for both the Kurdish and the
Turkish nations in the Middle East.Kurdish Freedom
Fighters PKK has offered Turkey a conditional
ceasefire on Monday 22nd 2007, and they want to
bring peace to all the parties in Turkey, according
to the website by the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK).
They are asking for a diplomatic solution and to get
away from violence. Turkey should give the fighters
a chance, but Turkey has never given a chance for
peace.This is an excellent opportunity for the
Turkish Government and it’s Military to end attacks
against the Kurdish Freedom Fighters, and Turkish
Government should not drive out this opportunity to
get into negotiation in order to achieve peace, and
victory for all citizens in Turkey. Turkey needs to
grant freedom of political work, culture, identity
rights, for all nationalities in Turkey, and keep
away from a strategy of an invasion into Iraq's
Kurdistan, and threaten its neighbors or export its
own problem, and breach the International Laws.
Turkish Foreign Minister Ali Babacan, came to Iraq,
and met the Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari,
on Tuesday 23rd of October 2007, at the Iraqi
ministry of foreign affairs in Baghdad, and met the
Iraqi President Jalal Talabani, also a Kurd, and
Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki. But unfortunately,
the Turkish Foreign Minister Ali Babacan on Tuesday
rejected a conditional cease fire offered from the
Turkey's Kurdish PKK, Freedom Fighters (Kurdistan
Workers' Party), and he said that Ankara does not
deal with a "terror" group. Babacan’s comments were
not encouraging and said “a ceasefire should be
reached between two countries or two armies but not
with a terror group”. Babacan said rebel attacks
left 42 people dead alone this month. Cease-fires
are "possible between states and regular forces,"
Babacan said. "The problem here is that we're
dealing with a terrorist organization." I want to
tell the Turkish Foreign Minister, that is not true,
and your excuse is not acceptable, by International
Community, because peace agreement can be done
between any parties in any time. If you look at the
experiences of other countries in the World, for
instance Sudan, and former Yugoslavia, they were not
in different countries or different Armies, they
were living within their border countries, and
finally, they came into peace agreement, and they
were granted freedom. Eventually, they formed their
own states and Parliaments, even the former
Yugoslavia split into different states, and they are
now enjoying their freedom. I believe what you said
in your statement in Baghdad is a very old fashioned
way to ignore the rights of the entire Kurdish
nation in Turkey, on the bases of Terrorism. If your
government has offered peace, and the PKK has
refused, and did not accept the offer, you can say
they are terrorist. But in this case, I believe that
the Turkish Government is a state of Terror not the
Kurds. You believe in the Ideology of dictatorship
and autocracy. The PKK statement said the rebels had
repeatedly ceased fire in the past, but the fighters
are always attacked by the Turkish Army, and the
government. Where is the promise of the Prime
Minister Mr. Erdogan, which he said last week, in
the statement in the Turkish Parliament, that PKK
fighters should solve their problem in the Turkish
Parliament, but if this is the case. Why did you
break your promise? Why did your government refuse
the ceasefire, which was offered by the PKK
fighters, in order to get in to the opportunity of
the peace process?
Dana Berzinjy,
a freelance writer,
Sydney/Australia,
October 29, 2007, Exclusively for eKURD.NET
©. You may reach the author via
email at: danaberzinjy (at) ekurd.net
About the Author: Bachelor of Teaching (Secondary)
Faculty of Education {University of Western Sydney
macarthur} 2001-2002. Postgraduate Diploma in Adult
Education (Teaching English of Speakers Other
Languages) Faculty of Education {University of
Western Sydney macarthur} 1999-2001. Postgraduate
Diploma in Business ( Employment Relations Law)
Faculty of Business ( University of Technology
Sydney) 1997-1999. Bachelor of Business (Commerce
and Human Resource management) ( Southern Cross
University) 1992-1996 Lismore
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