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Notes on Michael Rubin's articles
13.8.2012
By Mariwan Pauls
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August 13, 2012
Dear Mr Rubin
There are flaws in your article on Ekurd.net and in
Kurdistan Tribune One fact is that the Kurds in
Turkey are treated appallingly as individuals and as
a Nation in Nationalist/Islamist Turkey. So
appalling in fact, it is not even acceptable in a
third world country let alone for a country aspiring
for European Union membership.
I am not going into details of abuse here, I am sure
you have the all the facts and figures to prove
that. As you would expect, the Kurds (whether
through PKK or some other organisation) will defend
themselves and their legitimate national and
democratic rights firstly through democratic means
through Local and National elections. But if that
doesn’t work - as Turkey doesn’t accept results of
democratic election and disqualifies, dismisses and
imprisons Kurdish local counsellors and MPs (Leyla
Zana is ONE example, there are hundreds if not
thousands of such practices), what other options Mr
Rubin do you recommend?? What did the West,
including the US, do against such an onslaught on
Kurdish democratic rights?? Did it kick Turkey out
of NATO for such non democratic behaviour against 20
Million Kurds? Did it stop its annual financial
support? Not at all. It sided with Turkey against
the Kurds under the pretext of PKK being a terrorist
group.
In your
article "Will
Turkey Lose its Fight to the PKK?" published on
10/08/2012 in Ekurd.net, you seem to change your
views slightly re PKK. Not sure why the sudden
change given that Turkey has supported Hamas for
years and it wasn’t yesterday!! The only thing that
has changed might be to do with PKK’s success in
recent weeks against the Turkish military. Not sure
how such success, or otherwise, would lessen or
increase the democratic legitimate rights of the
Kurds in Turkey?
It is about time the West realises the nature of the
Turkish regime and recognises the Kurdish rights in
Turkey and acts accordingly. It will awaken the
Nationalists Turks within Turkey to think how the
modern world is and how it works (as oppose to being
in Kemalist coma for the last century) and
readdresses partially the historical injustices the
Kurds have suffered in the past century.
Best Regards
Mariwan
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