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Turkey-Kurdistan border: Silopi-Habur Highway
'Military Zone'
24.4.2007 |
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April
24, 2007
DIYARBAKIR, Kurdish Southeastern region of
Turkey, -- As Turkey-US negotiations go on
regarding operation in Iraq, in South Eastern Turkey
possible war preparations continue.
Silopi-Habur Highway was announced as 'Military
Zone'. After the announcement, reporters are not
allowed any closer than 5 kms. to Habur. At Habur
Border Entry Point active hours continue.
12 civilian white-colored minivans which were
carrying Turkish troops, were sent to Habur
direction via Cizre and Silopi yesterday around the
hour 12:00 (GMT+2). It was not possible to determine
whether Turkish troops passed the border or not due
to Military Zone Restrictions for the region.
zaman com
** 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.
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.
Turkey is home to some 20 million ethnic Kurds, some
of whom openly sympathise with the Kurdish PKK for a
Kurdish homeland in the country's mainly Kurdish
southeast of Turkey.
Before August 2002, the Turkish government placed
severe restrictions on the use of Kurdish language,
prohibiting the language in education and broadcast
media.
The Kurdish alphabet is still not recognized
in Turkey, and use of the Kurdish letters X, W, Q
which do not exist in the Turkish
alphabet has led to judicial persecution in 2000 and
2003
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)
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