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Turkish Atrocities and Injustices Toward Kurds
27.7.2007
By Rauf Naqishbendi |
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July
27, 2007
One of the greatest triumphs of our time is the
rapid and diverse communication through internet
media. With the click of a mouse one can surf
through world news anywhere and at anytime. This
phenomenon has made it difficult for despotic
regimes and vicious groups to continue their
atrocities against humanity as used to be the norm
in the silent world of the old days. No secret
society can remain clandestine, no groups can hide
behind walls of secrecy, rather all are revealed and
their aims disclosed as humanity fights back for its
survival.
News and commentaries related to events of the day
don’t necessarily have to originate from where a
given event occurred, but rather can be reported
from anywhere, and can reach a wide audience mere
seconds after posting. Consider Hevallo, a
London-based website administered by Mark Campbell
thousands of miles away from Kurdistan and yet
actively engaged in making the public aware of the
Turkish authorities’ backslide into abysmal policies
and their inhuman treatment of Kurds.
Hevallo describes the Turkish authorities’ behavior
and their intolerance for Kurdish freedom,
explaining how this intolerance is woven into the
Turkish constitution and how high-ranking Turkish
generals in Turkey’s military apparatus are engaged
in a policy of bigotry against the Kurds. It
elaborates on the campaign of incarceration and
torture of Kurds for their peaceful fight for
justice and freedom. Hevallo crosses swords with
Turks for their accusations that the PKK is a
terrorist organization. To this end, it offers a
blog (
http://hevallo.blogspot.com
) feature to its audience to exchange ideas and
express their views regarding the undesirable
situation in Turkey. Hevallo is a remarkable website
serving the Kurdish cause through news and
commentaries on current Kurdish affairs. This is a
benevolent endeavor for an English fellow to take on
behalf of the Kurds; this is definitely the kind of
friend Kurds need.
Truly Hevallo is a viable tool and it deserves the
gratitude of Kurds and humanity in general. It has
embarked upon a great service to the most oppressed
nation in the world, the downtrodden subject of
oppression at the hands of the most onerous regime
in the world. The homeland of more than thirty
million people, Kurdistan has been divided like a
pie between the world’s most notoriously evil
regimes of Turkey, Iraq, Syria and Iran, and the
Kurds are left without a country to call their own.
We live in a world plagued by menacing groups,
authoritarian regimes and fanatic organizations.
Aggressively fighting these obstacles is everyone’s
responsibility, and inaction is a tacit endorsement
of them. Injustice is humanity’s fatal enemy and
must be fought everywhere and by everyone. In 1963,
Dr. Martin Luther King, in his letter from a prison
cell, wrote, “Injustice anywhere is a threat to
justice everywhere.” This is what Hevallo is about,
sending loaded verbal bombshells from London
targeting Ankara and Istanbul with demands for
comprehensive freedom and justice for all citizens
of Turkey, not Turks alone.
americanchronicle 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.
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.
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.
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)
wikipedia
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