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Through out the history all
Turkish governments have announced that “Turkey is one
nation, it has one language that’s Turkish and it only
belongs to Turkish people”.
This racist statement that
has been announced by every Turkish king, president and
prime ministers from Ottoman Empire to the current Turkish
government clearly states that other minorities in turkey do
not have any rights unless they change their nationality to
Turkish!
In turkey no Kurds neither
Armenian nor any other nationalities are allowed to study in
their language or to hold a passport of their own
nationality. In fact it was crime to speak in Kurdish until
the end of 1980s and start of 1990s in government’s offices.
Turkish governments have
been racist and it has fascistic elements in its roots. Its
racist policies lead the Turkish government to commit one of
the greatest genocide crimes in human history against the
Armenians (Armenian Genocide) during the First World War in
1915. This was under the government of Committee of Union
and Progress, Carried out by Turkish soldiers and policemen
who enthusiastically carried out governments orders to wipe
out a race of Christian people in Middle East, same as what
the German Nazis did two decades later in Europe against
Jewish people.
South east Turkey that is
north Kurdistan is the land for approximately twenty five
million Kurds, The word Kurdistan is never mentioned in the
right wing capitalist media. Not surprising as the
capitalist media never have and will back oppressed people
in the world.
Kurds are the second biggest
nationality in Turkey but through out history they have been
oppressed by the racist state in Turkey for centuries due to
their nationality.
In the mid 70’s PKK
(Kurdistan workers party) was formed, they are the party
that demanded an independent socialist Kurdistan. They were
and still are popular among the Kurds not just in Turkey but
in the other three parts of Kurdistan in Iran, Iraq and
Syria.
Turkey has always been
backed by the imperialist forces in the west such as America
and European Union. Turkey has destroyed thousands of
Kurdish villages and has constantly carried out atrocities
against the Kurdish civilians.
PKK in this scene became
very popular, they gained support from millions of Kurdish
people and still has that support as it was and still is the
only party in the region to defend the people, but this
doesn’t mean that they will lead Kurdish people toward an
independent socialist state!
The group started its
guerrilla campaign from 1983 up until now, to defend Kurdish
people from Turkish atrocities and to defend themselves, as
their members were jailed, tortured and executed by the
Turkish racist government.
Since then PKK is known as
a terrorist organization by America and European Union,
Gordon Brown in a recent speech called them terrorist two,
but PKK haven’t destroyed life of thousands of people, they
haven’t jailed and executed civilians, and they haven’t
destroyed thousands of Turkish villages, how can they be a
terrorist? But Oppressed people have always been terrorists
in the eye of capitalism.
Kurdish people have the
right to take up arm and defend themselves from Tukish
atrocities PKK is not a terrorist organization; they are
carrying out an armed struggle to defend the people against
an armed occupation.
In October this year the
Turkish parliament gave authority to its army to invade
southern Kurdistan which is in north Iraq. The excuse is
that this is not an invasion there are PKK bases in the
Kurdish region in Iraq and they have to be destroyed,
because turkey has to destroy terrorism.
This is nonsense, Turkey is
the second biggest military force in the NATO, and has been
at war with PKK for over twenty five Years, they haven’t
destroyed PKK since, and how can they destroy them now!?
It’s an invasion and it has to be stopped, and The Kurdish
government in northern Iraq has no answers for the Kurdish
people who are the victim of their nationalistic capitalist
politics.
On 16th December
the Turkish army bombed the Kurdish villages of (Qalatookan,
Koortak, Bewle, Maradoo, Lewzha, Bra De and Razga) around
Qandil Mountains, that’s in the Kurdish region in north
Iraq.
The attacks were carried
out by Turkey’s fifty war planes in the middle of the night,
and they were accompanied by heavy artillery in the morning.
One woman was killed and four people were injured.
Hundreds of people have left
their homes, they have headed toward some other villages and
cities, and those who can’t afford to go to the cities have
fled and took shelter in the mountains and the mountains are
covered by heavy snow.
United states have admitted
that they had knowledge of the attack and Turkish officials
announced that they are sharing intelligence on the attack
with United States. Iraqi air space was opened for the
Turkish planes by United States as they are in charge of the
Iraqi air space.
On 17th December
the army again bombed 15 Kurdish villages in the Iraqi
territory, four Civilians were dead and four were injured.
Turkish officials are
announcing that they are targeting PKK bases but they are
carrying out atrocities against Kurdish civilians in north
Iraq.
Again On 22nd
December the Turkish war planes bombed the villages around
Zakho town. The people have left the villages before the
bombardment so there weren’t any casualties but the villages
are destroyed, again on 23rd December the Turkish
army bombed the villages of Nerwa, Rekan, Neheland, and
towns of Shwladze and Dermalike.
Now it has been a week the
Turkish army constantly bombing the Kurdish towns and
villages in Kurdistan.
What is most shocking is
that the fat cats in the Kurdish government in Iraq are
silent about these crimes, but actually it shouldn’t be as
they are agents of imperialism, and they are only busy
filling up their pockets in the government.
PUK (patriotic union of
Kurdistan) and PDK (Democratic Party of Kurdistan) are
imperialist agents that mean they will agree with whatever
decision America and other imperialist forces will make in
the region. If that’s an occupation of southern Kurdistan in
north Iraq by Turkey or even if it’s genocide the Kurds.
They are capitalist
nationalist parties and their leaders have blood of
thousands of Kurdish people on their hands by their civil
wars that they created in middle of 1990s. They are
criminals what shall the people expect from them.
In Kurdistan as a whole
there is a lack of a real political alternative therefore
there is no voice to oppose the crimes that the invaders
from outside and the nationalists inside Kurdistan are
committing against theses oppressed people.
Kurdish people are victim
of the politics of imperialism, politics of the racist
states of Iraq, Iran, turkey and Syria. They are also victim
of the dirty politics of Kurdish nationalism that has blind
folded Kurdish people for decades and decades.
Unless there is a real
political alternative to imperialism and nationalism,
Kurdish state is a dream and peace is impossible in
Kurdistan and wider Middle East.
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