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The Turkish and the US Governments, Share crimes,
Atrocities and Genocide that were Committed Against
the Kurdish People in Turkey in 1990, and at present.
Part 1
17.2.2008
By Dana Berzinjy - eKurd.net contributing writer |
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February 17, 2008
Sydney, Dana Berzinjy, (eKurd.net),
PART 1
The Turkish regime is well known by the World for
committing crimes against the Kurds, the Armenians,
Greeks and the other minority groups. Millions of
people murdered and genocide by the former Turkish
dictator Kamal Ataturk for instance in 1915. Then,
since all the Turkish states in the past and current
shamelessly tried to commit the same action of crime
against the Kurds and the other nationalities in
Anatolia. After the collapse of the former Soviet
Union in 1991, many nationalities like Kurds hoped
that one day they will be freed from their
oppressors. |
Dana
Berzinjy |
I personally believe
that the USA will lead the World and everybody will
enjoy the freedom and democracy. Even the current
USA President Gorge W Bush, stated before the
collapse of the former executed Iraqi dictator
Saddam Hussein, that he will deliver democracy to
the darkest corner in the World. I truly believe the
darkest corner in the World is Kurdistan. The
Kurdish rights have always been denied by the
oppressors of Turkey, Iran, Syria, and Iraq for
centuries. I believe since the occupation of Muslims
13 centuries ago our rights were jeopardised, and we
are still without a state. As Gerald and other
authors believe in democracy and the freedom of
other nationalities, Gerald mentioned lately in his
article that Kurdistan is like another Israel in the
eyes of the Arab countries, he is quite right,
always has been this way and Kurds have been blamed
that we are the agents of Israel and America. If
this is the case, why did the Israeli planes lately
participate with the Turkish war planes to bombard
the Kurdish villages in 16th December 2007, in Iraqi
Kurdistan? Is not it shame on the Israeli Government
to take an awful action to help the Barbarian State
of Turkey against the defenceless Kurdish villagers
in Kurdistan? Did the Israeli Government ask itself,
that why have they done that against the Kurds? Have
the Kurdish people or any political parties in the
past or now hurt any Israeli solder? Or have any
terrorist activities been committed by the Kurds
against the state of Israel. If the answer is no, so
why the Israeli Government participated in this
crime? They did not ask the Turkish Government to
grant more rights to the Kurds? Kurdish people
believe that they are more close to the Jewish
people than any other nationality in the Middle
East. Kurds and Jewish people were genocide by the
Arab Muslims in the past during Mohammed up until
now. The suicide Muslim Arab bombers in Israel and
in Kurdistan are still murdering innocent people as
they did 13 centuries ago. This scenario from one
hand and there is another amazing scenario from the
other hand.
I believe that the US leads the World in terms of
Human Rights and to help other nationalities to
enjoy freedom and democracy like American citizens,
but unfortunately, I found that this story is
absolutely fake. These days the American Government
and especially George Bush came under a lot of
criticism by some Americans, Israelis, and European
authors for wrong policy by the current Government
against the Kurdish people. I am delighted and I
believe that I am not alone in this mission, and I
still strongly believe in American people, and the
American troops that they are doing the best job in
order the Kurds and the other nationalities to be
granted their own rights, such as freedom of speech,
cultural rights, and language. I think that the US
Government is taking a wrong path in order to
deliver democracy to the Middle East, because its
policy has fallen in the hands of the wrong people
which don’t believe in democracy and don’t want it
to be delivered to the Middle Eastern people. At a
result the wishes of the people that seek democracy
will be jeopardised. The Iraqi liberation scenario
after the fall of the former Iraqi Dictator has
taken another path. This scenario is vice versa now
and all rights are given to the Turkish Government
to genocide a nation that seeks democracy. The US
Government obviously has given licence to the
Turkish Army to murder Kurdish innocent villagers,
and granted the Turkish NATO ally an authority to
commit such a crime and ignoring the Human Rights
principles and motivating violence. Everybody says
Al-Qaeda is a terrorist organisation,www.ekurd.net
because they are killing
innocent people of any nationalities on a daily
bases. If this is true! The Americans should condemn
the Turkish air strike against innocent Kurdish
civilian, because this is a crime of humiliation
against Human Rights and this behaviour by the
Turkish State of Terror is an act of terrorism. Is
not the sky of Iraq and Iraqi Kurdistan; is American
responsibility to protect it from any attacks? I
strongly believe that the US Government should not
promote this kind of activities, because it will
hurt the Kurds and will damage our friendship. If
the Turkish Government is a true friend of the
United States, why the Turkish Government did not
fight against terrorism in the last four years in
South of Iraq? Who fought hand in hand and carried
on the heavy load on their shoulders against
terrorism except the Kurds. This little scenario is
about today’s American Policy, and its Kurdish ally
in the Middle East. Let’s look back and analyse the
past policy of the Clinton’s Administration against
the Kurds in Turkey.
The Kurdish Genocide in Turkey:
During the years of Clintons Government, the same
mistake was repeated and the US Government put guns
and arms in the hands of the Turkish State of
Terror. The USA Government during those years joined
the Turkish Government in order to perpetrate
atrocities against the Kurdish people in Turkey
especially in 1990 (South of Kurdistan).
The infamous campaign called “false flag”
operations. This operation was backed by US and
directly against the PKK and its supporters,
thousands of innocent Kurdish civilians were
tortured, and many more were executed by
paramilitary forces. The Turkish Army masked
themselves as PKK guerrillas and went to the Kurdish
villages to torture and kill people, bombing,
burning houses, crops and livestock, and then later
on the PKK guerrillas were blamed. All the training
and advice was given to the state of Turkey by US
for years. In that operation the secret soldiers
committed crimes and acts of violence in piece and
then the Communist members of the PKK were blamed
for ordering to create a chaos and distrust between
the Kurds and the PKK members. In that campaign 3 to
five million Kurds were exiled and moved by Turkish
Forces. The Kurdish forests were set a light, and
3500 to 4000 villages, small towns were displaced
and bombed in the Kurdish areas by the Turkish
Forces.
In 1995, the former US President Clinton had given
permission for a wide Turkish invasion into
Kurdistan of Iraq. The Turkish Army committed a
number of documented cases of crimes and
displacement of defenceless Kurdish people. John
Deere had gone into more details in this genocide
and said: “Were this Kosovo, we would be hearing
words like ‘genocide’ and ‘ethnic cleansing’. You
see,www.ekurd.net
to kill Kurds all you
need is the proper hunting license. In this case
that license is a perk of NATO membership”. In 1991
the American Congress passed a law and permitted the
Joint Combined Exchange Training programme. This
permission had given the power to the Department of
US Defence to send forces to other countries in
order to cooperate in this regard. Ted Galen
Carpenter exposed and said in the light of this
program, in 1997, the US European Command’s special
operations branch carried out combined training with
the Turkish mountain commandos, their aim was to
flash out the PKK Freedom Fighters. The unit’s
primary’s duty was to murder Kurdish civilians and
to knock down and blast the Kurdish villages.
According to Ward Churchill that US and British
pilots helped the Turkish Military Forces in their
broad scale campaign against PKK in North Iraq
(Iraqi Kurdistan).
The Violations of the 1923 Hague Rules of Aerial
Combat, the 1949 Geneva Convention IV and Additional
Protocol 1. According to the above laws, the
participation of the US and British pilots and
military units, both Governments are guilty in
capturing, bombardments, and killing civilians. They
did not protect the Kurdish civilians and destroyed
thousands of Kurdish villages in North Kurdistan
which is Southern Eastern Turkey, which is populated
by Kurds. They violated the International Laws,
according to the text below, for murdering and
capturing hundreds, thousands of Kurdish defenseless
villagers. The CIA school in the USA trained Huseyin
Kocadag, the Chief of the Special Forces in Hakkari
and the Deputy Chief of Police in the Kurdish city
of Diyarbakir, he was identified that one of the
most bloody enemies of the people, who was in charge
and organized many units of the ‘head-hunters’ in
Kurdistan. In addition the US administration and
other agencies involved unlawfully in capturing and
abduction of Abdullah Ocalan the head of the PKK in
1999.
“Parties are bound by the laws of war to the extent
that such compliance does not interfere with
achieving legitimate military goals. For example,
they are obliged to make every effort to avoid
damaging people and property not involved in combat,
but they are not guilty of a war crime if a bomb
mistakenly hits a residential area.”
In the eyes of the Human Rights Watch, people and
many organizations, indicated that the campaign was
obviously genocidal in nature in 1997. The Human
Rights Campaigning Group, Article 19, mentioned that
it believed there was “ample evidence to indict the
Turkish government of gross violations of human
rights which constitute infringements of … the UN
Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of
Genocide, among other treaties to witch Turkey is a
party”. The UK Parliamentary Human Rights Group made
a visit to the Kurdish region stated that the
depopulation of the Kurdish region is part of
intentional strategy designed not just to get rid of
a few thousand guerrillas, but to extinguish the
separate identity of the Kurdish people.
The US and British Governments think that the
Turkish Government is a democratic government and
cannot cope with an intractable problem of
terrorism. But in realty as this author believes and
I too, this is vice versa, which the Turkish Army is
one of the military terrorists among the others is
aiming to get rid of the identity of the Kurdish
people. There is an obvious example that supports my
argument which is the Armenian Genocide in 1915-1916
by the founder of the Turkish State Dictator
Ata-Turk. The Armenian people in World War One took
arms because they had no hope that the Turks would
recognize their legitimate political aims in
diplomatic way.
Turkish Government uses a language of peace when
comes to external consumption, but uses army within
a State Terror of Turkey against the defenseless
civilian population, as has been used always in the
past against the Armenians and against the Kurds.
Many times even a century ago Kurds had been gassed
and in 1990 Kurds were genocide and currently still
are. The Turkish government is ignoring the facts
and the history, so that’s why, Turkey never rests.
The US Government should take the responsibility for
its own action in the past and now to promise that
Genocide never happens again, but this is not the
case by the US Government (1990: Fernandes, D., p2).
It appears that the Turkish State of Terror has been
granted license again by the US Government to kill
the Kurdish civilians in South, and North of
Kurdistan. It seems that the US administration uses
Kurdish issues again to get some political benefit
out of the America’s dirty political games. The US
has a selfish administration; again it compares PKK
freedom Fighters, and their leader to Osama Bin
Laden and Al-Qaeda. Nancy McEldowley was
representing the US embassy at an 11th September
commemoration service in Ankara; she said in her
speech that there was no difference between Al-Qaeda
and the PKK or Ocalan and Bin Laden.
I want to say that Ms Nancy was mistaken and should
not have compared the futures of 25 million Kurds to
the terrorist organization like Al-Qaeda, because
the Kurds in Turkey, whose rights are not recognized
for centuries, and your administration knows that
really well, and should not have ignored the Kurdish
question. Of course you prefer Al-Qaeda organization
over anything else, for instance the rights of more
than 25 million Kurds, because Al-Qaeda was created
by the US administration in the past to fight the
former Soviet Union in Afghanistan. So, that’s why
in Iraq 3300 American solders sacrificed their lives
for the mistakes and the wrong policy that were made
by the US administration in the past? The American
troops were killed by the terrorist organization of
Al-Qaeda, not by the Kurds in Turkey. But the US
administration still ignores this reality and keeps
a blind eye on the Kurdish genocide in Turkey. There
is no point, that American follows the policy and
the foot prints of the racist Government of Turkey
which ignored a simple and the basic rights of these
people. Every body knows that the United States of
America is a democratic country but Turkey is not.
The US Government should not let to lose its
reputation for the sake of undemocratic Turkish
Government.
Kurds have every right to fight against their
oppressor which is the Turkish Government and the
first people’s enemy, in order to defense themselves
like other nationalities. Kurds lived in Anatolia
thousands of years before the arrival of the Turkish
invaders. They came to take our freedom and to wipe
off our culture, to murder our kids and to genocide
our nation and religion. Our religions are
Zoroastrian and Christianity not Islam that
destroyed our homeland Kurdistan. We have churches
that their history goes back to thousands of years
before the invasion of Islam. We protected them from
the savage invaders, but despite of our rich
culture, the Turkish Racist Government still denies
our existence and our identity as a nation, and they
still call Kurds in South East of Turkey, Turkish
mountains. This is the Turkish democracy that US
supports in order to be promoted in the Middle East.
IRA and PLO used to be called terrorist
organizations by US and British administration, but
not anymore. The US administration pushed Israeli
Government to recognize PLO, and its leaders to form
a state for Palestine; even the Arabs never had a
state in Israel before. The Kurds had so many
kingdoms and small states in Turkey even before the
Turks existed in the area. These are some evidence
that which confirm my arguments; there is evidence
dating back to 6300 BC shows that the Hurrian people
were among the oldest of Kurdish ancestors to reside
in the mountains of Kurdistan. Now, the Hurrian name
still continues to exist by the present Kurdish
region of Hawraman. In1500 BC, Hurrians stretched
out and created the Kingdom of Mitanni in Kurdistan.
But in 728 BC, revolts by the Median Kurds and
Babylonians lead to the fall of the Assyrian Empire.
The Median Empire is well known as Medya, witch was
formed in 728 BC. Zoroastrianism was the religion of
Medya. The Medes celebrated the New Year (Newroz) at
the beginning of spring after Medya is liberated.
Under the rule of Cyaxares in 626 BC, the Median
Empire enlarged in power and expanded its
territories.
In 1453, The Roman Empire fell, and later on the
Ottoman Empire was established. The Ottoman Empire
started the invasions of tribal Kurdish kingdoms in
Kurdistan. Some tribes were given some self-rule in
their districts.
In 1880, the last Kurdish kingdom collapsed and a
united Kurdish nationalistic revolt against the
Ottoman injustice rule began under the leadership of
Sheikh Said.
In the 7th Century, Islam was created and broadened
in the Middle East. Arabia expands and conquers
parts of Kurdistan. But Kurds not like Persian,
fought for 200 years against the Islam occupation
and its religion was imposed on people forcibly.
Can we call the double standard policy of the US
administration? I wonder how long the Kurds have to
keep up with the Turkish racist policy and its
constitution. I will talk about some cases that the
US’s best friend, ally,www.ekurd.net
and NATO member had done
against humanity. In the city of Adana, Siyar
Perincek, the representative of the Eastern and
Southeastern Anatolia was shot by police, while he
was driving a motorcycle in the city, then the
police stepped on his back, when he fell off the
motorcycle, he was killed by a bullet and his
killers are free now without trials. Another
example, Ugur Kaymaz was Kurdish at the age of 12
with his father Ahmet were murdered in November 2005
in the Southeastern town of Kiziltepe in an
operation against “armed terrorists” both of them
were unarmed according to the Human Rights
Committee. Their family said that the son was
helping his dad, a truck driver to prepare for a
trip to Iraq. The Turkish Human Rights Chairman,
Alatas said that there were many allegation cases
that were related to the murdering of PKK militants,
and were claimed that their bodies were being
damaged and their organs were cut off, even if they
were caught alive.
They were tortured and murdered. In addition to
that, there was an allegation that chemical weapons
were used. I want to know, who will investigate this
kind of a tragedy that was committed against
humanity as a whole? The Prime Minister Recep Tayyip
Erdogan the best friend of the President George Bush
declared that the Turkish “security forces will
intervene against the pawns of terrorism, even if
they are children or women”. This is one of the
Muslim leaders of this century, and he is a Prime
Minister of 70 million people. In my view he is
another Osama Bin Laden, in a different appearance.
That’s how he respects the rights of women and
children, and the human rights in Turkey.
Bibliography
Fernandes, D., 1990, Turkey’s US-Backed War On
Terror: A Cause For Concern? USA.
(1) Izady, Mehrdad R. The Kurds: A Concise Handbook.
1992(2) Kiepert, Heinrich. A Manual of Ancient
Geography. 1881
www.worldarticle.org The History of the Kurd
For Part 2 of this article
click here
Dana Berzinjy,
a freelance writer,
Sydney/Australia,
February 17, 2008, Exclusively for eKURD.NET
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About the Author:
Master in TESOL from University of Western Sydney in
1995. 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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