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The EU is abetting a state sponsor of
terrorism
7.3.2010
By Baqi Barzani, a longtime contributing writer for
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March 7, 2010
The word terrorism is a ploy being employed by many
oppressive regimes to justify committing every human
rights violation, targeting democratic dissent
voices and concealing their wrongdoings.
States routinely perpetrating such violations are
already notorious but what is hard to believe is the
involvement of few EU states members, bragging to be
the architects of human values and principles.
To please Turkish regime, recently, Belgium, Italy,
France have abetted Turkey in arbitrarily arresting
some key Kurdish political activists in Europe who
fled retaliation and sought protection in those
countries. Most of these detainees are civilian
people. This callous move is against every principle
and international laws and condemned in its
strongest term.
The EU blatantly continues to wink at a terrorist
country in terrorizing its own innocent population.
Turkey should come to its sense that by putting
democratic civilians behind the bars, the
Turkish-Kurdish dilemma will not be resolved. The
century old struggle of Iraqi Kurds was not silenced
by the most destructive weapons.
If EU is concerned about terrorism, why a country
allowing the practice of extra-judicial executions,
arbitrary arrests, torture and persecution on a
regular basis, should be excepted and treated
otherwise? What are these double-standard policies
that only apply to a few select regimes? Turkey is
no less than a state sponsor of terrorism. Today,
there is not a single erudite person that is unaware
of the magnitude of suffering of 25- million Kurdish
ethnic group and the overall plight of other
existing religious minorities in Turkey.
France and Belgium should differentiate between
terrorists and a marginalized minority being slained
merely for pleading their fundamental equal citizen
rights. They should differentiate between a people
kidnapping, torturing, killing, and blowing up,
sabotaging and a people being tortured, killed,
kidnapped…….
The current so-called 'partial' EU policy towards
Turkey is not producing any results and in fact is
counter-productive because it undermines declared EU
principles, such as the promotion of democracy and
human rights in the world. If the EU is to maintain
its status as the world's human rights leader, it
must avoid double standards by some of its members
that undermine the legitimacy of human rights
discourse.
Another ironic point is that the US Treasury
Department put a former Turkish parliamentarian of
the Turkey's pro-Kurdish banned Democracy and
Equality Party (Zubeyir Aydar ) on a list of
"significant" foreign drug traffickers, a very good
fabrication.
The US has shown reticence in condemning Turkey’s
imbalanced treatment of the Kurds, for decades. U.S.
leaders use one standard to judge the conduct of
most other countries and an entirely different
standard for Turkey.
Why did genocide or ethnic cleansing provoked
Washington's wrath in case of Serbia and let to
military action? But when it comes to the Kurds in
Turkey, human rights concerns do not appear to be a
U.S. priority. Why the US congress is pressing for
the adoption of Armenian genocide? Is not a greater
genocide being carried out against the Kurds? The
United States is indifferent because the victims are
Kurds.
The strategy of making Turkey a keystone American
ally at the expense of Kurds is myopic. The US is
taking the same misstep as it did in dealing with
Shah of Iran during much of cold war.
The US treated Iran as a crucial ally and a reliable
stabilizing force in the region. At that time, the
US disregarded Teheran's massive human rights abuses
and,www.ekurd.netit
remained silent as the shah systematically
suffocated democratic opponents. The US indulgent
policy toward the fascistic behavior of Turkey's
military is eerily reminiscent of the U.S. policy
toward Iran under the shah. The Americans are still
paying a steep price for the latter folly.
These atrocities and double standard policies should
come to an end immediately and unconditionally. The
international community is urged to pay an urgent
attention to the issue of homeless and helpless
Kurds. The United Nation is beseeched to intervene
and hinder Turkey from perpetrating genocides,
ethnic-cleansing, mass murder and incarcerating
innocent civilians under the ploy of terrorism.
Baqi Barzani is a
Kurdish citizen of Sought Kurdistan [Iraq]. He
advocates the notion of " establishing an
independent Kurdish state". He contributes to
various Kurdish media outlets, especially ekurd.net.
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