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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. I personally believe that the
USA will lead the World and everybody will enjoy the
freedom and democracy. Even the former 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. In the past 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 former 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,www.ekurd.net
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, 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) (1990:
Fernandes, D., p.1).
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 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 (1990:
Fernandes, D., p.1).
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, 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 (1990: Fernandes, D., p.1-2).
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 (1990: Fernandes, D., p.2).
“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 (1990: Fernandes, D., p.1-2).
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,www.ekurd.net
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 (1990: Fernandes, D., p3). But I want
to say that, Nancy McEldowley missed an important
point, and did not realise that the Kurds are
struggling in order to liberate their homeland
(Kurdistan) from the Turkish State of Terror, and to
have their cultural, language, religion and
democratic rights back.
Bibliography
Fernandes, D., 1990, Turkey’s US-Backed War On
Terror: A Cause For Concern? USA.
Dedication Poem (By Dana
Berzinjy)
I want to dedicate this poem to the lives of
millions of innocent Zoroastrian Kurds, Armenian
Christians, Greeks, Assyrians, Jews and Turks that
sacrificed their lives for the sake of their
homeland and to condemn the former Turkish
Governments in the past, and even the current
Government including Army Generals, Prime Minister,
the Turkish President and AK Islamic party for their
savage act of support for murdering and
assassination of Armenian and Kurdish journalists,
politicians and imprisonment of hundred of thousands
of innocent civilians, politics party members and
destroying lives of thousands of people on a daily
bases. The Turkish Government needs to know that
their fate will be like those dictators that were
captured by people and put in cages for their
barbarian acts against their nations, genocide of
people, freedom, human rights abuse, rape, murdering
women, killing children, creating unemployment,
destroying villages and towns. There are many
examples of those people that were put in ashes of
history by their own people for
instance, Saddam Hussein, Milosevic, and the former
Cambodian dictator Pol Pot (Saloth Sar)...etc. There
are still some dictators out there like the Somalian
President that brought genocide upon 350,000
innocent Somali people.
Finally, I would like to say that the Turkish
Government should respect the rights of other
indigenes nationalities that lived thousands of
years before the Turks occupied Anatolia. For
example the Kurds lived in Anatolia during Noah’s
and Bethlehem kingdoms. The Bethlehem kingdom had a
great roll in protecting the Christianity. The
Turkish Government needs to change its racist
Constitutional like clause 301, which bans the
rights of other nationalities and respect the 1949
Geneva Convention IV and Additional Protocol 1. The
Government needs to increase its service in
non-Turkish provinces,www.ekurd.net
and provide work and
invest more assets in those areas that always have
been under the control of Military, and lacks basic
human rights. The US and the British Governments
should stop their support for the Turkish
Government, because they are directly participating
against the human rights and against the wishes of
the Kurdish and Armenian Christians for freedom,
democracy and liberation of their homeland. Their
support will enhance the Turkish racist attitude
against indigenous people especially raping and
killing Kurdish women in Anatolia.
Daily Tragic True Story
I hear a gun shot, which devastates me in a most
unpleasant way,
These explosion and devastation become a routine on
a daily bases.
******
Another gun shot fills up the sky with a noise
today,
It demolishes some stars in the space of God, in the
lands of Noah in Shirnakh!
******
Bullets blow up everywhere in the lands of prophet
Zoroastrian,
In the wounded and sweet city of Diyarbakir, burnt
the Holy book Avesta!
******
Everyday bombs blast in our red streets in
Kurdistan, that
Kill innocent homeless people in our homeland!
******
The Turkish tyrant always commits a series of sins,
They take lives and put them in grounds, boxes and
bins!
******
Speak or sing in Kurdish is a crime by the Turkish
Regime,
You have to take revenge for this savage offensive
act and language genocide.
******
Nobody stands this barbarian battle of hell any
more,
Nobody leaves their kids to suffer and to be blown
in a war.
******
I am sure, there is no doubt a Kurdish hero will
arise,
One day a worrier stands for our rights, and blood
tears of our eyes.
******
May be the worrier has not been born yet, may be
he/she is still not known yet,
May be his/her image is still hazy in the eyes of
our climate.
******
May be the Medes Hero, Steal smith Kawe will be back
soon,
His glory vision can declare Newrozs as a second
revolution.
******
Our suffering prolonged and our nation many times
wounded,
But the oppressors of our homelands bond have not
ended.
******
Let them go to Hell and leave our homeland alone,
leave our nation in peace, Back to your country
China, and join your awkward dead leader Jengizkhan.
******
The Turkish occupiers and the state terror
handcuffed our nation,
They have taken everything in the past, present,
even from the future generation.
******
This tyrant will be put in a cage one day for their
unlimited crimes.
God will take revenge in its own way, even beyond
their exercise of power and religion.
******
It finds out who destroyed 5000 ancient villages
from their roots,
Made homeless, 5 million of innocent Kurds to
Istanbul and other cities.
******
In 1990 the Kurdish villagers lost their lands,
farms, vine yards, houses, water falls, even, rivers
and spring waters, lakes, were poisoned for no
reasons.
******
Even goats, cows, cattle, were lost in this genocide
campaign,
Our natural resources were baked and trees were
dried out in this fall.
******
Birds went blind in poison gases, doers, goats and
wild sheep and bears were Forcibly migrated to other
neighbouring countries with out identity.
******
They were not recognised anywhere, their documents
were not stamped in the border, without visa and
passports, in the check points; they were captured
and put thousands of them in long trucks.
******
They were loaded with out been counted for, some of
them escaped with wounds and hid in the caves and
the valleys, some were hidden themselves in the huts
of the farmers!
******
They smelled poison grass without been able to eat
even a single green grass,
And some were left behind no countries granted them
a shelter.
******
The animals were left in the border without tent and
caves in the spring,
They died in the rain and the hash snowy weather of
Kurdistan, no body did care!
******
Another siren shouts, our ears were torn over and
over, the noise did not stop, Even for a second,
carried on until a black cloud covered the sky, our
sweet hearts went to unknown venue without returning
to our land!
******
There was not even a single star to light the
darkness of their crime,
Everything had done in a secret way in order to keep
things quiet forever!
How come a clever writer Fernandes, D., 1990,
Turkey’s US-Backed War on Terror, discovered this
genocide and released massive information about the
Turkish crimes!
******
Listen my dear, I am in shock again, unexpected news
repeated itself again in here, and another Turkish
pilot is on the war plane bombards my homeland.
******
Another illegal phosphoric bomb drops and put their
hands in bloods of my people, and they have no
genuine reason, except their aggression attitude to
my homeland and indigenous Kurdish people.
******
Kills innocent civilian and, makes another ancient
village to be exploded!
It causes another indigenes mother starts to cry,
another young man is being shot and began to die!
******
Oh no, another family destroys by the air strike and
artillery shells,
Some children stayed orphan forever, for the rest of
their life!
******
These legend people will tell their stories to their
generation, if they are still alive,
Oh, this genocide every day, it captures every
single’s life and eye!
******
Another missile drops in the middle of Medes
homeland,
Another explosion fills my ears and it sounds tore
my ears!
******
Destroys the land of Bethlehem and humiliates its
religion,
Distracts the sprit of Abraham and Jesus Christ in
our region Shanli Urfa!
******
They wish to raze the Noah’s Gud Mountain and
Ararat’s with the Arch,
His old boat will be stopped, if not broken for a
second time in the history!
******
Sink all the people on Earth, even with their
prophets,
But this is an insult on the survivors that are
still on board!
******
New spirits come on live, hurry up the son of God,
Never gives up hope on Human Rights, innocent people
on board.
******
The Kurdish people, never give up on the land of the
Meds to be occupied by the Turkish oppressor, by
inhuman beings and unkind savage Regime, in our
existence in life.
******
It has been taken on and off for 700 years, which
the homeland occupied,
But thankfully, the Kurdish nation still struggles
and alive.
Kirkuk the Medes city and it was the capital city of
Shahrezoor 500 years ago,
This scared city is still full of beauty; Prophet
Daniel’s Tomb exists in our homelands pretty!
Dana Berzinjy,
a freelance writer,
Sydney/Australia, May 25, 2009, for eKURD.NET
©
All Rights Reserved. You may reach the author via
email at: danaberzinjy (at) ekurd.net or dara_dar
(at) yahoo.com.au
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Articles by Dana Berzinjy
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Genocide
of the Kurdish Language, Forcibly by the Turkish
Government has violated the Turkish and the
United Nations Laws. Part 3. 6.7.2009
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Kurdish
Tragedy in North of Kurdistan. Based on a True
Story 25.5.2009
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Democracy in
the Middle East Especially in the Kurdish Regions!
8.8.2008
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Reply to a
Dishonorable Degree, which was written by Nergiz
Duhoki 2.6.2008
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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 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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