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PKK Leader Karayilan: traces of Israel in
Gabar
4.2.2008
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February 4, 2008
Israel is a state in the Middle East surrounded by
states that do not recognise it. This very system of
the Middle East is also the same system that does
not recognise the Kurds. For this reason Israel and
the Kurds are interlinked.
Israel is not only assisting the Turkish state’s war
machine, which is used to annihilate the Kurdish
guerrillas, through technological sharing, but is
also actively taking part in surveillance and
inspection. During the course of the last year
Israel has played a significant role in the killing
of many of our militants. In the coming month
Israel’s defence minister will visit Turkey. |
Kurdish PKK Leader Murat Karayilan |
He will probably conclude more agreements on how to
improve the military partnership. If Israel is
willing to sit down with Turkey and discuss its
military ambitions against the Kurdish people, then
the Kurdish people should sit down and talk about
what they can do. Just as the Jews are living
everywhere across the globe, so too are the Kurds.
We believe that Israel has the right to exist as a
state just like any other nation; the Jewish
people’s existence in the Middle East is a reality.
However, we believe that the Kurds as a nation also
have all these rights. Israel needs to believe this
too.
Therefore, we are in favour of a change in the
region’s status quo. It is very strange that on the
one side Iran is in a partnership with Turkey to
kill our militants, while on the other side Israel,
by sending its special personnel to work alongside
the Turkish Army, is also actively taking part in
the killing of our militants. This is a serious
paradox. The pragmatism and interest driven actions
here have distorted all truth. This is why we call
on the Israeli state to withdraw from these actions.
We do not want the Jewish people to be an enemy of
the Kurds. If they continue to be an enemy of the
Kurds then the Kurdish people do have things that
they can do and we will discuss this. But first we
will try diplomatic means. Israel needs to
reconsider its position.
The Kurdish people are also one of the oldest
peoples of the region. Where did Prophet Abraham
come from? Is it not Kurdistan? I am from Urfa,
Prophet Abraham was also from Urfa. The language and
culture of one of the oldest people of the region is
under threat of being wiped out and Israel is
playing a role in this. We would like Israel to know
that they will gain nothing from this; on the
contrary, if they continue what they are doing they
will suffer damages. We call on Israel to reconsider
and revise its position regarding this matter and to
withdraw from this military partnership against the
Kurds.
The Kurdish Front | Kurdish Info
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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.
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.
Turkey is home to over 25 million ethnic Kurds, a
large Turkey's Kurdish community 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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