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The United State should equally protect the Kurds
in Turkey
3.6.2007
By Ako Mohamamd, contributing writer |
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June
3, 2007
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Turkish regime has launched an indiscriminate
incursion against its own 25 -million unarmed
Kurdish civilians.
These authoritarian and repressive policies have
continued for decade under the cover of fighting
terrorism and separatism. It is an unconditional
noncompliance of international treaties, but the
Western powers expose no reluctance to condemn the
Turks for committing such gruesome crimes.
Approximately two fifth of Turkey’s 65 million
people are of Kurdish ethnicity. Since its founding
from the remnant of Ottoman Empire, Kurds have been
the principal victims of the Turkish state's
excesses. The Kurdish issue is the most pivotal
internal problem in the Turkish republic's
seventy-seven-year history and indubitably the core
sticking point to its aspirations to full
integration with European institutions.
Regretfully, the Turks have not yet been able to
embrace this reality and constantly attempt to
portray it rather as a socioeconomic problem in
their southeastern region and a problem of terrorism
that is dependent on external support from foreign
states aiming at weakening Turkey.
The Turks should understand that the Kurdish issue
in Turkey differs in many respects from such recent
ethnic conflicts as those in Bosnia, Chechnya,
Kosovo, Liberia, Nagorno-Karabakh, and Rwanda. The
Kurdish dilemma in Turkey is totally distinct from
the problem of PKK. Turkish state is not acting in
accord with its own rhetoric stipulating that the
Kurdish issue is distinct from PKK.
Washington condemned Saddam for its treatment of the
Kurds in South Kurdistan (Kurdistan region-northern
Iraq).
Concurrently, it should disallow Turkey’s equally
brutal repression of its own Kurdish population,
where more than 37,000 Kurds have been killed in the
past two decades.
The civilized world needs to speak out unequivocally
against ethnic cleansing under any circumstances.
The international community should take immediate
and concrete steps to stop Turkeys’ state terrorism
against the Kurdish people, and protect innocent
Kurdish lives.
Ako Mohamamd, You may reach the author via email
at: akomohamamd12345 (At) yahoo.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 over 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.
Kurds are not recognized as an official minority in
Turkey and are denied rights granted to other
minority groups. Under EU pressure, Turkey recently
granted Kurds limited rights for broadcasts and
education in the Kurdish language, but critics say
the measures do not go far enough.
Turkey is home to over 25 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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