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Call For Economic Boycott of the Turkish Products
and Think Twice Before You Buy it
27.3.2008
By Dana Berzinjy - eKurd.net contributing writer |
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March 27, 2008
Sydney, Dana Berzinjy, (eKurd.net),
The Turkish government has showed its aggression,
and assaulted the Kurdish Regional Government (KRG),
by airplane fighters, and used ground forces
brutally in current days. Whatever, the reason was
behind the Turkish Government’s agenda, such an
assault and barbaric invasion, was disapproved by
the International Community (IC). The invasion was a
breach of the International Law. Despite all the
excuses by the Turkish barbaric Army, and the
Turkish Government for their violations and attacks
on the Kurdish villages on any grounds, it was a
violation against the Kurdish Regional Government
and the sovereignty of Iraq. So, that’s why, I
believe the Kurdish people, Armenians, Assyrians,
Greeks and the International Community should
boycott the Turkish products, in order to weaken
politically the power of the Turkish Army, and to
stop its attack on innocent civilians in Kurdistan. |
Dana
Berzinjy |
In addition to that, the
Turkish Government should apologize on behalf of the
previous Governments for the 1915 the Genocide that
committed against Armenians and non Muslim Kurds (Yezidis)
through the past centuries. The Yezidis resided on
the territory of the Ottoman Empire, before the
World War 1, more than 500,000 Yezidis were murdered
brutally by the Turks. The Turkish historiographer
Katib Tchelebi also stated that from 1915 to 1918
about 300,000 Yezidis were massacred during the
Ottoman Empire, cited on this web site www.ekurd.net.
Historically Turkey is the land of the Kurds,
Armenians, Assyrians and Greeks. The Turks are
invaders and occupied our homeland Kurdistan. There
are more than 20 million Kurds that live in Turkey,
despite our case the rights of the Kurds and the
other nationalities are denied by Turkey for many
centuries. The population of Kurds many times more
than Kosovo, but the people of Kosovo declared their
independence couple weeks ago. In addition to that,
Exbaziya declared its independence from Georgia, and
its population is about 250,000 people. The Kurdish
population which is 160 times bigger than Exbaziya.
If this is the case the people of Turkey need to
react against the Turkish invasion. They should show
their demonstrations often and refuse to buy things
and close their shops, at least for one week. They
need to stay at home after that, they should go on
strike and start heavy demonstrations in the Kurdish
cities, country towns and villages.
Kurdish soldiers in the Turkish Army need to support
the uprising and refuse to kill their fellow Kurds
and stay away from the war. All Kurds, Turkish,
Greeks and Armenians know very well this war does
not serve the people of Turkey, except it destroys
their country and their relations with each other.
The Turkish Army’s aggression against the Kurds does
not serve anyone except the Turkish Generals to fill
up their pockets and to put their hands in the
bloods of the innocent Kurdish people, and the
Turkish solders.
Turkish citizens need to put their differences aside
and know how to respect each other and to learn how
to live together. Turkey is not just fighting
against the PKK fighters, but also has a hidden
agenda against our homeland Kurdistan of Iraq (South
of Kurdistan). Is not now a right time that the
Iraqi Federal Government and the Kurdish Regional
Government to cancel all the existence contracts
with Turkey? When their contracts are expired, they
should not be renewed again. This is the right time
to take an action against our enemy and boycott the
Turkish products, and instead have new contracts
with other countries like Jordan,www.ekurd.net
South Korea, China,
Israel and other countries. Why do we have to always
stick with the enemy even though some times they
have exported their expired medicines, and foods to
Kurdistan? The PKK and the Turkish Government
conflicts should be worked out in Turkey not in the
Iraqi Kurdistan, and their war is purely political
and the Kurds in Turkey are fighting for their
occupied homeland which is Kurdistan. Every day
millions of Kurds are demonstrating against the
Turkish occupation in Turkey. Turkey needs to solve
its internal matters in Turkey, and shouldn’t export
its problem to another country. The Kurdish and the
Turkish people should know the dirty intentions of
the Turkish Army, and need to take an action and
resist the Turkish Government in order to save their
sons to become ashes of the war, for the benefits of
the Turkish Army Generals. In the light of the great
article that was written by Dr Hoshiar Molod, I
would like to expand about that topic, which is very
vital for today’s political situation in Kurdistan.
As we know Kurdistan has been surrounded by the
hostile countries. They are not going to grant our
rights in a peaceful way, because they are tyrants
and oppressors.
Acar of the Erbil Business people's Association
says: "Violence is affecting economic relations;
this is to Turkey's detriment. There are people From
Turkey and Iraq feeding from violence”. Acar told
the Turkish government and the media to stop seeing
Massoud Barzani, as an enemy. This is how Ahmet Acar,
president of the Business people’s Association in
Erbil; the Iraqi Kurdistan's capital sees the
relations between Turkey and Iraqi Kurdistan region.
He said that the attacks carried out by the Turkish
Army are dropping the economic activity of Turkey.
Acar said that people in Kurdistan were not affected
by the attacks, and the places were left by the
Turks were taken by the businessmen from countries
like China, Japan, Australia and South Korea.
Acar said many Turkish companies work in the field
of textile production and bread factories, according
to the data from 2006, there were 15,000 employees
and more than 200 companies from Turkey in Iraqi
Kurdistan. Acar said that the Kurdish Regional
Government (KRG) did not put pressure on the Turkish
companies, but they were labeled as "traitors" by
Turkey.
According to data provided by the Erbil Chamber of
Commerce, 23 Turkish factories left Kurdistan in the
first 2 weeks of October. The Turkish Contractors'
Union, those companies from Turkey earned five
billion dollars in Iraq since 2003. Tahir Telllioglu,
both deputy president of the Turkish Federation of
Construction Contractors and president of the Ankara
Construction Contractors' Association, said:
"Contractors should leave Iraq immediately. As of
today, whoever puts one stone onto another in Iraq
is betraying their country." If this is the attitude
of the Turks towards our nation, we need to think
wisely and shop somewhere else that we are more
comfortable with and boycott their products.
Economic Boycott
The Albert Einstein Institution defines an economic
boycott as, "The withdrawal or withholding of
economic cooperation in the form of buying, selling,
or handling of goods or services, often accompanied
by efforts to induce others to do likewise. It may
be practiced on local, regional, national, or
international levels."
In this way it means to refuse to continue a certain
economic interaction, particularly the buying,
selling, or handling of goods and services.
Boycotting is a good method and effective way, and
it is legal without a violent protest. These days
are well known that a boycott method is the only way
to boycott the countries which abuse human wrights.
It is powerful method of change as well.
I agree with Dr Hoshiar Molod, and other authors in
order to boycott all Turkish products, because the
boycott is a great method and more successful than
protests on the streets of Kurdistan and the world.
The intentions of the Turkish attacks on Kurdistan
were to weaken and undermine the Kurdish authority
in Iraq. I want to say that unfortunately, the Iraqi
Government did not act quickly, and it was a very
slow reaction against the Turkish invasion. The
Turkish Racist Government does not recognize the
Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG), and treats the
Kurdish Government and the Kurds in a racist way.
Sometimes they use bad language against the Kurds,
and wish the government to fall a part. They think
that Kurdistan is still part of the collapsed
Turkish Ottoman Empire, and any time the Turkish
Army Generals wanted, can occupy Kurdistan. If the
Turkish Government looks at Kurdistan Regional
Government in a hostile way, why do the Kurds have
to have a commercial relation with Turkey?
A report from the Sbeiy website, confirmed that 40%
of Kurdistan’s regional government budget for year
2007 had gone to the Turkish companies for contracts
and buying of merchandise. We should end all
business relations with Turkey, because of their
aggression and assaults which the Turkish Army
continuously bullies and harasses us by bombarding
and killing our people, and destroying villages and
our bridges. In the recent incursion, The Turkish
brutal Army planted 3200 mines in Kurdistan in a
shape of toys to kill our children. Despite billions
of dollars that the Turks collect every year from
Kurdistan, for having business in our region, the
last Turkish attack on our sovereignty, through the
bombardment by airplane fighters, they made huge
damages, which were estimated more than 20 million
US Dollars. So, that’s why it is very important for
the Kurds to boycott the Turkish products in order
to stop the Army’s aggression against our people.
The Turkish threat is a dangerous game on us and we
need to take this matter seriously, and we should
react without delay against the past and the future
offensive and invasion. I believe everyone should
support the boycott of Turkish products against the
Turkish invasion and abusing human rights in Turkey.
The Turkish Government used a boycott against
implementation of the human right laws by European
countries. Turkey is also in 2000 boycotted against
Belgian products, in order the Belgian Government
should hand over some people to put to death in
Turkey. It also the Turkish supermarkets in Turkey
had boycotted in 2006 against the French products,
due to the French parliament passed the Armenian
genocide bill. If Turkey uses a boycott policy for
its own benefit, so the other nationalities have a
right to use it against the Turkish State of Terror.
Boycotts will work well
Sometimes the customers stay away from buying
certain products from some of the companies, because
they have very bad perceptions. Boycotts are more
effective than any other methods such demonstration,
lobbying and other campaigns. From my understanding
the Kurdistan Regional Government has made many
commercial agreements with the Turkish companies in
Kurdistan. According to the Kurdistan Regional
Government more than 400 Turkish companies are
working in Kurdistan recently. So, they can sell
their products and they will get our dollars. This
process generates billions of dollars and promotes
and makes the Turkish economy much stronger. So, the
people in Turkey will have more power to purchase
goods and services and they make more money from
agricultural, fashion, music, and medicine
industries. So, now the Turkish industries have
found the market in Kurdistan in order to sell their
products, and eventually our sectors will get weaker
and weaker. Finally, they will control our market,
and they will bombard us by their products,
especially if their products are low-priced than the
Iraqi or the Kurdish products, in this way our
products will stay longer in the market and nobody
will buy it. In the end we will lose our economy and
we can not stand against the Turkish competitors. In
order to avoid this, so our Iraqi and Kurdish
Economists should think twice before this awful
situation gets worse. If this is the case the Iraqi
people in general and the Kurdish people in
particular, will be totally just consumers not
producers. So in the end, it will harm our economy
financially, economically, and politically. If our
market is controlled by the Turkish businessmen and
their products, so, the Turkish authorities can put
an economic sanction on Kurdistan by stopping
sending their products to our people. If it reaches
this point, it’s going to be too late until we will
find a market, and we have to pay a heavy price for
our mistakes. So, why we have to give our dollars to
somebody else, if our farmers in Kurdistan are
capable to do the same job. Who will get richer and
richer our farmers in Kurdistan, or our Turkish
Neighbor? At the result the Turkish Government will
have more power economically to buy weapons, guns,
artilleries, helicopter gunship’s from other
countries like USA, then later on, they will use it
against the Kurds. That means they will use and
spend our money to destroy our homeland. The current
situation in Kurdistan is a great example that the
Turks destroyed our villages in Kurdistan over and
over. They use our dollars to destroy our bridges,
that built by our poor people, or money from
charities that was given by western countries, and
churches but not by mosques of the selfish Islamic
or the Arab World.
We need to avoid buying or selling Turkish products,
like Turkish bread, tomato paste, or at a restaurant
like Kebabs, Dolma and so on. I live in Australia
but it has been long which, I have refused to buy
Turkish products, even if less than a dollar. I want
to say, it is a shame for some of the Kurdish
singers who go to Turkey to make clips or to record
CDs. Why don’t they spend their money to make their
CDs in Kurdistan?
I want to say, unfortunately, the Kurdistan Regional
Government (KRG) gives out contracts and deals with
the Turkish businessmen, which is worth billions of
dollars. That is our mistake, and today we have to
pay a heavy price for that. It is also very sad to
hear at the Iraqi level to tie Iraq, and the Turkish
relations strongly on the bases of trade, and it’s
unfortunate, that the Iraqi president urged Turkish
investment on 9.3.2008, during his visit to Turkey.
The Iraqi’s goal and the strategic visit were
extended the Iraqi relationship with Turkey on
different levels for instance, economic, trade, oil,
political, culture, etc. That’s what the Iraqi
president told the Turkish business leaders. He
guaranteed that the businessmen will get different
kinds of help, and facilities in Iraq. I believe
this kind of business it will harm the Kurdish
question without any guarantee from the Turkish side
to stop its aggression against our nation in South
and in North of Kurdistan. According to the article
that cited in www.ekurd.net web site, the Turkish
exports to Iraq amounted to 2.82 billion dollars in
2007, while Iraqi imports only came to 650 million,
according to Turkish government statistics. Tuzmen
expected that two way trades would total six billion
dollars in 2008 and he said the aim is 20 billion by
year 2010. Promoting business relations with Turkey,
which make the Turkish Government stronger
financially and their economy gets healthier. The
Turkish companies hate the loss of sales and
negative publicity; boycott campaigns bring an image
problem that can damage their business for decades.
President Talabani’s official visit to Ankara on
Friday 3rd of March 2008, which cited on
www.ekurd.net’ web site, Pervin Buldan, Pro-Kurdish
DTP deputy criticized Mr. Talabani while she was
speaking to her party’s Igdir branch last Saturday
in that event which organized to mark March 8,
International Women’s Day, she made comments about
the Iraqi leader, who was in Turkey.
“Mr.
Talabani, if you have the slightest bit
of Kurdish pride, you wouldn’t cooperate with the
state and government here in Turkey,” she
said. According to the website during his visit, the
President Talabani promised the Turkish leaders that
he will take an action against the Turkish-Kurdish
Workers Party. The combat against the PKK requisite
closer co-ordination between Ankara, Washington and
Baghdad, Talabani said on Saturday. I want to get
back to my previous argument and direct a question
to our lecturers and our economists at our
universities, financial, and economic ministries in
Kurdistan. Is this the way that you could manage the
economic resources of Kurdistan? Would not have been
better method to find jobs for the people of
Kurdistan, and our young graduates from
universities? All the organizations and their
advisers, I have mentioned it previously should be
held countable for a bad economic management in
Kurdistan for a high inflation, a high rate of
unemployment, high prices, expire dates of foods,
medicine, and the Turkish monopoly market in
Kurdistan. If we want to follow the method of the
boycotts; absolutely it works very well, if the
people behind it put lots of efforts in order to
organize it. A boycott will generally be very
successful if it has focused leadership. If everyone
refuses to buy Turkish products, it does not matter
where you live in Kurdistan, Australia, Germany,
USA, England, and Turkey. Wherever you are if you
refuse to buy their products the demand for their
products will be reduced heavily, and finally, it
will harm and hit the hostile Army indirectly. If
you want to support the Kurdish issue in Kurdistan,
you need to refuse to buy products which were made
in Turkey. When a boycott is successful the hopes of
the Turkish generals will be faded, and they will
begin to pay attention to our demands and the
boycotters. Indirectly, we will put economic and
political pressures on people, and people of Turkey
and the World will put a direct pressure and a heavy
load at the Turkish Army dictators in Ankara.
It is a good opportunity for the Turkish Government
to change the offensive practice before an economic
sanction commences on your products. The Kurdish
unity and their friends like Armenians and
supporters in the World are essential; in order the
boycott can be successful effectively in regard to
the economic action. I am sure this strategy will be
powerful and these boycotts can be effective
victory. This kind of a formal boycott, that I
propose is for the sake of freedom of the people
that live in Kurdistan like Kurds, Armenians,
Assyrians, Arabs and Turkish, democracy, and free
Kurdistan.
We are able to choose when and where to shop and
spend our financial resources. Formalizing the
boycott with a particular reason can enhance the
effectiveness of this approach by getting a superior
number of people and a precise objective such as
eliminating a Turkish pressure on our nation and to
stand for our rights.
Is not a good idea to boycott sending patrols from
Kirkuk oil field to the Turkish port of Jihan?
Kirkuk oil field produces 400,000 barrels per day,
and then from there the patrol goes to overseas. How
can we do that? I want to direct this question to
our Iraqi and the Kurdish Regional Government oil
Ministries. If we are really counted by the
Government of Maliki to become part of the sovereign
Iraq, the Iraqi Oil Minister’s duty to do that,
isn’t? But, the oil minister of the Kurdish Regional
Government can not stop sending patrol to Turkey,
because officially Kirkuk still has not returned to
KRG authority. So, here is something wrong again. If
our leaders after the fall of the former executed
the Iraqi Dictator Saddam’s regime, did not join the
Iraqi government in Baghdad, for their seats in the
Iraqi parliament. Our situation would have been much
better now, because our leaders in the past easily
could have told the Iraqi Arab leaders, and the
President of the United states of America, that we
would not join the Central Government until we
establish our homeland Kurdistan, and the Iraqi
Central Government must confess that all the
occupied areas by the former regime are parts of
Kurdistan Regional Government.
Our leaders should have previously demanded them to
put back our occupied land on our region. After that
they should have joined and would become part of the
Iraqi Federal Government. The Kurds in Baghdad
currently are mediators between the Sunnis, and
Shiites Arabs’ conflict and the civil war in south,
and even sometimes they ignored to defend the
benefits of the Kurds and Federalism of Iraq.
Because the internal problems are more focused on,
than the Kurdish problems. After all of this hard
work, efforts and the struggle that the Kurdish
leaders and Peshmerga Forces put into the
reconciliation between Arabs and the reconstruction
of Federal Iraq, unfortunately, the Arabs call us
the second Israel in the Middle East. But, I want to
say that every single Arab country in the Middle
East is directly and in directly is an agent to
Israel and the USA, for instance the USA gives each
year millions of dollars to Egypt, Jordan and even
Palestinian Resistance. I wish it was like that but
unfortunately the Israeli Government supports the
Turkish State of Terror and the United States of
America gives Turkey F 16, to destroy Kurdistan.
This is our ally!
Are Boycotts Ethically Correct?
It is acceptable for people to make a decision where
and when to spend their money or to make it known
why they do or do not utilize a particular company's
goods or services.
"Kurds! Defend yourselves!
Don't shop at Turkish stores and do not buy their
products!"
The boycott strategy, itself, is a right decision.
It like many other good things has even been done by
church leaders like William Wilberforce, who planned
one of the most successful Christian boycotts in the
Eighteenth Century. He called for a boycott of sugar
in an effort to conclude the slave business in the
British colonies. Wilberforce and others knew that
slavery was immoral and they decided not to buy
sugar, which produced by using slaves. Since the
Eighteenth Century, so many churches, in the past
participated in a variety of boycott activities.
Christian people like Wilberforce with the heinous
institution of slavery tried to get rid of the
greatest human rights abuse of the past.
Kurds are entitled to exercise their rights not to
support an evil cause. The consequences of a boycott
are very powerful in order to demolish the
economical power of a racist Government like Turkey.
For instance look at the economic effects on a
larger scale. Suppose just 1,000, 000 boycotters
promised to spend their money elsewhere and they
pass on a small figure of $ 20 per week. That would
amount to $ 20 million per week or well over $1,160
billion a year. Imagine what the Turkish Army can
buy for that amount in order to destroy our
homeland, and murder our people. What happens if
millions of Kurd and other people are ready to
boycott the Turkish products? By doing that, we get
rid of the Turkish dictatorship, and we will enjoy
democracy and freedom of speech in North of
Kurdistan and millions of Kurds,www.ekurd.net
Armenians, Assyrians and
Greeks will be freed in the hands of the evil. Let
me comment about my opinion as well, when People
have money they are responsible how to spend it, and
what to buy for that money, still you have a power
in your hands, but after you bought the Turkish
products, you have no power over it, and that power
goes to the Turkish companies, and it depends how
they are going to spend and manage their money. Then
morally the company owners are responsible, if they
are going to support the bad intention of the
Government or spend it in other way to harm the
Kurds and the other nationalities that live in
Turkey. Please don't participate out of guiltiness,
instead be careful when you spend your money, use it
wisely, effectively, and serve it for the benefit of
the humanity and for the purpose of God.
Economic Boycotting is a Strong Weapon and
Political Approach against Extortion
You might be happy with the term” wise spending” or
“smart choice”. As a consumer you have a right and
you are in charge where to shop, support, or buy
from corporations based on position, reliable
strategy and values. This is neither political nor
strong-armed.
Look at the experiences of
the other countries in the World that have used
Economic Sanctions against their tyrants and they
were successful in their vital mission to serve
their nations and the entire World!!
A Long time before the Hitler’s government began
limiting the rights of the German Jews, the Jewish
leaders in the world formally established war on the
"New Germany" at a time when the U.S. government and
even the Jewish leaders in Germany were alarmed in
dealing with Hitler. Some people know the fact about
the event that helped spark what eventually became
known as World War II. The international Jewish
declaration of war on Germany, after Adolf Hitler
got the power, and well before any official German
government sanctions against Jews were passed. The
Daily Express of London on March 24, 1933 issue of
described how Jewish leaders, in grouping with
powerful international Jewish financial interests
began a boycott on Germany for the express purpose
of crippling her already unstable economy in
aspiration to fall the new regime’s Hitler. The New
York attorney Samuel Untermyer was one of the
leading activists in the war in opposition to
Germany, and said that the Jewish movement as
nothing less than a "holy
war." The war by the international Jewish
leadership on Germany sparked economic and political
alliance between the Hitler government, and the
Jewish leaders hoped that the pressure between the
Germans and the Jews would lead to enormous
emigration to Palestine. It was true there were
aggressions against Jews in Germany after Hitler
came to power; this was encouraged by Hitler later
on. The truth is that anti-Jewish sentiments in
Germany were actually nothing new. German Jewish
Central Association, disputed that the new
government was intentionally frustrating anti-Jewish
uprisings. The Jewish leaders in the United States,
and England decided on their own that it was
important to commence a war against the Hitler’s
government.
In 1933, the leader in chief of the Jewish War
Veterans called for an American boycott of German
goods. Jews protested at New York's City Hall as
assembly were staged outside the North German Lloyd
and Hamburg-American shipping lines, and boycotts
were enhanced against German goods throughout shops
and businesses in New York City.
The Daily Express of London of March 24, 1933, said
the entire people of Israel and the world was united
and declared an economic and financial war on
Germany. This campaign called a “holy
war” against Hitler's people. So the
Germany was confronted with an international boycott
of its trade, its finances, and its industry. The
New York rally was broadcast worldwide. The bottom
line is that "the New Germany" was acknowledged to
be an enemy of Jewish interests and thus needed to
be economically strangulated. This was before Hitler
determined to boycott Jewish goods. In 1933, the
German economy was in a disaster, some 3 million
Germans were on public assistance with a total of 6
million unemployed. The inflation destroyed the
economic strength of the German nation. The boycott
destroyed Germany politically, socially and
economically. The intention of the Jewish boycott
was to bankrupt Germany, and make its economy very
weak. Germany transformed from a nation of culture
into an absolute hell of malicious and savage
creatures. The entire world hit the German economy
in order to free humanity from a recurrence of this
unbelievable offend. Everyone on the earth made
common cause against the slaughter, starvation,
brutal torture, unkindness, and discrimination that
were imposed on Jewish men, women and children. The
campaign was entirely defensive economic boycott
that to weaken the Hitler’s regime, and to destroy
their exports. That was the only way to make Germany
to understand and stop discrimination against
innocent Jewish people.
Arabs also in the last thirty years of Israel’s
existence boycotted Israeli products, and had
shocking effect on Israel’s economy. Many large
multinational companies boycotted against Israel,
and put pressure and refused to do business with the
state of Israel. PLO commanded by Yasir Arafat
published in "Al Hayyat Al-Jadidah" and read on
Palestinian television. The Fatah called on people
to boycott Israeli products. Fatah called all
merchants to stop the importation of Israeli
products and persisted that all advertising agents
should end promoting Israeli products. The Arab
boycott forced on the Jewish community in Palestine
in 1946. In 1951, in Damascus, Syria, the Central
Office of the Arab boycott was established by the
Arab League. Its offices, and its lists of black
listed companies that had business with Israel are
still there and they met 66 times. In 1955 extended
to the international sphere. In the "golden years"
of the Arab boycott, over 8,500 dissimilar companies
puffed out the list of the offices in Damascus. But
it is significance to mention it that the companies
carried out business with Israel were boycotted and
the Arab themselves had no barriers to buy missiles
and guns from corporations that sold guns to the
State of Israel. Coca-Cola excluded from the Arab
world, because it had tie with Israel. The Pepsi,
also on the other hand, followed the dictates of the
boycott and started to open business doors in Israel
in 1992! Egypt, Jordan, and the Palestinian autonomy
agreed to refuse the Boycott as part of the peace
agreements with Israel; but in both Egypt and
Jordan, quite a number of professional companies,
with the tacit support of governmental authorities,
insisted against the normalization of relations with
Israel. In recent years, the Arab world has once
again unsheathed the sword of economic sanctions. At
the controls of the enterprise many Arab and Islamic
groups in the USA, are strongly lobby American
congressmen, with the support of the Arabs. In order
to pressure Israel into canceling its show, the
Palestinian Authority and much of the Islamic world
threatened a huge boycott of Walt Disney products.
And we are still in the thick of the Burger King
drama, that hamburger chain was subjected to
fabulous financial and economic pressure by the
Arab-American boycott gentlemen. Boycott method was
used in order economically to destroy Jewish state.
1765–1775 A.D. The American colonists had resistance
campaigns against British rule (the Stamp Acts of
1765, the Townshend Acts of 1767, and the Coercive
Acts of 1774), resulting in de facto independence
for nine colonies by 1775.
In1955–1968 these methods were used such as bus
boycotts, economic boycotts, enormous
demonstrations, marches, and freedom rides, the U.S.
civil rights movement which won the Civil Rights Act
of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965. This
equality was achieved for the first time in the
American History, which granted equal rights for
African-Americans. In 1880s Laborers from County
Mayo, Ireland led a successful "boycott" movement
against Charles C. Boycott; a wicked British land
agent always used armed force to gather shameful
rents from local residents.
In 1900s Anti imperialist demonstrations in China
pursued by an economic boycott of American products,
protesting the Chinese Exclusion Act and calling to
conclude to immigration laws that distinguished
against Chinese, who liked to go into the United
States 1870s and 1880s. Some Chinese migrants killed
in the Western United States anti-Chinese uprising.
In 1919–1920 in Egypt workers started protests,
strikes and boycotts campaign against Lord Milner
and his commissioners, who were supposed as the
embodiment of English colonialism, at the result of
the strikes and other methods led to Egypt to gain
its independence from British. The powerful Mahatma
Gandhi's, 1920s–1947 structured campaign of no
participation with the British and used a boycott
against British products. The campaign known as
swadeshi (reliance on
indigenous products), at the result of
the boycott badly damaged textile manufacturing in
England, and this economic sanction put an enormous
pressure against England. Finally, Britain granted
Indian independence in 1947. People in South Africa,
between these years, 1959–1994 launched a boycott
that mobilized millions around the world, mainly
students, through group action. Africans used the
variety of protests such as boycotts,
demonstrations, hunger strikes, divestment
campaigns, economic sanctions, and other activities.
Finally, this struggle led to free Mr. Mandela from
prison, and Nelson Mandela in the end became the
first democratic elected President of a
multicultural South Africa, on 10 May 1994.
American farm workers between 1968–1984, which led
by Cesar Chavez, structured an international boycott
of California grapes, and later Chiquita bananas and
non-union lettuce, which successfully became part of
union agreements between the United Farm Workers
Association and the growers.
1977–1984 One of the largest non-union boycotts was
against Nestle, who’s hostile and misleading
marketing practices of its toddler formula supplied
to a worldwide turn down in breastfeeding and the
cooperated in increasing in "bottle baby deaths."
The boycott caused Nestle to collapse its demand and
to lose over a billion dollars in profits, so the
boycotted caused and forced the corporation to amend
its practices.
Poland’s movement 1981–1987, who’s led by Lech
Walesa, benefited very much from worldwide economic
sanctions and boycotts, when the USA imposed
economic punishment on Poland, after the Communist
Regime in 1981 prohibited the harmony movement and
detained more than 30,000 members. The
liberalization in Poland that put to end the
Communist Government was prompted in significant
part by the desire of Poland’s Communist government
to get rid of the sanctions. The fall of the
Communist Regime in Poland impulsive the collapse of
the Berlin Wall, and the smash up of the Soviet
Union. The Armenians, Assyrians, Kurdish genocide,
were crimes committed against the human race in
general, and in particular those nations, I have
mentioned them previously. I strongly believe that
the International Community is not going to tolerate
those criminals that committed crimes in the last
century on any grounds. The Turkish Government needs
to apologize to those nations and the World wide on
behalf of those regimes in the past that murdered
millions of Armenian Christians, Yezidis and
thousands of razed Kurdish villages and millions of
homeless Kurds. The Turkish government still denies
the history and does not recognize the genocide of
the Armenians and Yezidi Kurds. The current regime
in Turkey still follows the previous foot prints and
traces of the Ottoman Empire, by committing
massacre, and murdering of our people in South and
North of Kurdistan. The reason for that the Turkish
Army wants to weaken the Kurdish existence in our
homeland. Kurdish people have not occupied Turkish
homeland, the Turks occupied and had taken our
homeland. The history and the International
Community can witness that.
Our Prime Minister Mr. Kevin Rudd on behalf of the
Australian Government apologized for the Aboriginal
people, and he made a great history for Australian
people, for labor party, for the democratic elected
Government, for the World Wide, and for himself.
That’s why Australia is a great country, and has a
great and powerful nation, and has a great
Government. If you live in a country like that you
are always proud of yourself and morally you fill
great. Every nation and everyone should be proud in
the World for this great and remarkable achievement
not just for Australian Aboriginal people, but also
for the entire humanity.
That’s why I would like to ask the Kurdish people
and the worldwide to boycott the Turkish products,
because the Turkish Army does not stop its war and
aggression against the Kurdish civilians, putting
innocent Kurdish people in prison for using (their
mother tongue) the Kurdish language, does not let
people to speak freely about their concerns, Ann and
imposes the Turkish language and imposed the Turkish
language on people, on TV channels, in education
system. They say everyone lives in Turkey is counted
as a Turk. The Government does not recognize the
rights of the other the nationalities except Turks.
These kinds of abuse to human race are not just
discrimination against those nations which live in
Turkey, but it’s a discrimination against the entire
World. The International Community should avoid
traveling to Turkey. Australian people should
support the Kurdish struggle for democracy and avoid
to deal and travel to Turkey. Australian government
should impose economic sanctions, an arms embargo
and a tourism boycott against the regime.
The Turkish Government should transfer power to the
people in Turkey, and needs to respect the elected
members of the Kurds especially DTP, without
harassing them when they ask about the Kurdish
rights, freedom of speech, and democracy for Turkey.
The people should boycott the Turkish products,
unless the Turkish regime follows the demands of the
Kurds, Armenians and the International Community,
and stops harassing freedom of people, grants the
rights of more than 20 million Kurds in Turkey,
reconstruction of more than 4500 villages which were
destroyed by Turkish Army and the return of 3-5
million villagers to their villages, stops
bombarding innocent villages and murdering innocent
villagers and improves democracy. In addition the
Kurdish language should be allowed to be used and
taught in Kurdish areas. Individual countries and
the UN should impose economic sanctions and an arms
embargo, and stop providing economic support to the
Turkish Government. If you buy Turkish products
directly it means you support the Turkish Army’s
invasion and the Government denial of the Armenian
and Yezidis genocide, and the killing of Kurdish
civilians and the denial of the human rights in
Turkey, by the Turkish government. This boycott
method can be applied at the same way in the other
countries that abuse human rights, which occupied
our lands such as Iran, and Syria
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Dana Berzinjy,
a freelance writer,
Sydney/Australia,
March 27, 2008, Exclusively for eKURD.NET
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All Rights Reserved. You may reach the author via
email at: danaberzinjy (at) ekurd.net
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Articles by Dana Berzinjy
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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 2,
By Dana Berzinjy 3.5.2008
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Call For
Economic Boycott of the Turkish Products and Think
Twice Before You Buy it. 27.3.2008
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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,
By Dana Berzinjy 17.2.2008
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National
Kurdish anthem should have been played first, not
the Quran in the ceremony which mourns victims of
Anfal 15.1.2008
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What Right Does
the Turkish Parliament have To Send Its Own Army,
to Shell...By Dana Berzinjy 29.10.2007
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The Conspiracy
Agreement Made Between The Iraqi And Turkish
Internal Ministers... 1.10.2007
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Why the US does
not support an Independent Kurdish State, but
Supports the establishment of the Palestinian
state 29.8.2007
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The Turkish
Government Occupies The Kurdish Homeland in
Southeastern Turkey 23.7.2007
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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