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THE UNITED STATE SHOULD EQUALLY PROTECT THE KURDS IN TURKEY
Kurdish Aspect, CO
June 4 2007
The Turkish regime has launched an indiscriminate incursion against
its own 25 -million unarmed Kurdish civilians.
These authoritarian and repressive policies have continued for
decade under the cover of fighting terrorism and separatism. It is an
unconditional noncompliance of international treaties, but the Western
powers expose no reluctance to condemn the Turks for committing such
gruesome crimes.
Approximately two fifth of Turkey's 65 million people are of
Kurdish ethnicity. Since its founding from the remnant of Ottoman
Empire, Kurds have been the principal victims of the Turkish state's
excesses. The Kurdish issue is the most pivotal internal problem in
the Turkish republic's seventy-seven-year history and indubitably
the core sticking point to its aspirations to full integration with
European institutions.
Regretfully, the Turks have not yet been able to embrace this reality
and constantly attempt to portray it rather as a socioeconomic
problem in their southeastern region and a problem of terrorism
that is dependent on external support from foreign states aiming at
weakening Turkey.
The Turks should understand that the Kurdish issue in Turkey differs
in many respects from such recent ethnic conflicts as those in Bosnia,
Chechnya, Kosovo, Liberia, Nagorno-Karabakh, and Rwanda. The Kurdish
dilemma in Turkey is totally distinct from the problem of PKK. Turkish
state is not acting in accord with its own rhetoric stipulating that
the Kurdish issue is distinct from PKK.
Washington condemned Saddam for its treatment of the Kurds in South
Kurdistan (Kurdistan region-northern Iraq).
Concurrently, it should disallow Turkey's equally brutal repression
of its own Kurdish population, where more than 37,000 Kurds have been
killed in the past two decades.
The civilized world needs to speak out unequivocally against ethnic
cleansing under any circumstances.
The international community should take immediate and concrete
steps to stop Turkeys' state terrorism against the Kurdish people,
and protect innocent Kurdish lives
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Kurdish Aspect, CO
June 4 2007
The Turkish regime has launched an indiscriminate incursion against
its own 25 -million unarmed Kurdish civilians.
These authoritarian and repressive policies have continued for
decade under the cover of fighting terrorism and separatism. It is an
unconditional noncompliance of international treaties, but the Western
powers expose no reluctance to condemn the Turks for committing such
gruesome crimes.
Approximately two fifth of Turkey's 65 million people are of
Kurdish ethnicity. Since its founding from the remnant of Ottoman
Empire, Kurds have been the principal victims of the Turkish state's
excesses. The Kurdish issue is the most pivotal internal problem in
the Turkish republic's seventy-seven-year history and indubitably
the core sticking point to its aspirations to full integration with
European institutions.
Regretfully, the Turks have not yet been able to embrace this reality
and constantly attempt to portray it rather as a socioeconomic
problem in their southeastern region and a problem of terrorism
that is dependent on external support from foreign states aiming at
weakening Turkey.
The Turks should understand that the Kurdish issue in Turkey differs
in many respects from such recent ethnic conflicts as those in Bosnia,
Chechnya, Kosovo, Liberia, Nagorno-Karabakh, and Rwanda. The Kurdish
dilemma in Turkey is totally distinct from the problem of PKK. Turkish
state is not acting in accord with its own rhetoric stipulating that
the Kurdish issue is distinct from PKK.
Washington condemned Saddam for its treatment of the Kurds in South
Kurdistan (Kurdistan region-northern Iraq).
Concurrently, it should disallow Turkey's equally brutal repression
of its own Kurdish population, where more than 37,000 Kurds have been
killed in the past two decades.
The civilized world needs to speak out unequivocally against ethnic
cleansing under any circumstances.
The international community should take immediate and concrete
steps to stop Turkeys' state terrorism against the Kurdish people,
and protect innocent Kurdish lives
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