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Kurds v. Islamists of Gulen
18.1.2012
By Joshua Ivens
— ekurd.net
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Muhammed Fethullah Gülen is a Turkish preacher,
author, educator, and Sufi Muslim scholar living in
self-imposed exile in Pennsylvania (USA). He is the
founder and leader of the Gülen movement. Phoro: ANF
January 18, 2012
The Turks are playing their last card with the
country's Kurds and their movement for independence.
The AKP government attempts to re-Islamize the
Kurdish masses with the help of Gulen movement and
the agreement of the Turkish armed forces; in that
understanding, first comes Islam and then the ethnic
identity of the individual Turkish citizens... In
that way, they can re-Turkify the Kurdish masses,
but also through intermarriage with Turks.
I cannot say whether the Turkish authorities have
the agreement and enjoy the assistance of the USA in
their various campaigns against the Kurds, as the
poster suggests... I do not think so, or better say
I do not hope so...
A part of the Kurdish people - unfortunately -
supports AKP, hopefully not at the expense of their
ethnic, linguistic and cultural identity.
But the Kurds are caught between two major evils in
Turkish history : Islamism and Kemalism, and they
need to fight both of them.
I think that ultimately the Kurds will gain what
they seek, while the Turks will have to accept the
bitter reality... The Turks cannot win this war,
unless they commit another of the multiple Genocides
they have committed, first against the non-Muslims
and then against the non-Turks, but this time the
Turks cannot do this anymore, as they could do it
back in 1910's, 20's, and late 30's. Times have
changed even for them.
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