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    Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG)
    http://www.krg.org/
    March 2 2005

    Turkey's Bad Export, Damaged Good: The ITF


    /noticias.info/ Adil Al-Baghdadi
    Brussels

    It is necessary, at various stages, to re-examine and analyze the
    principles, policies and tactics of a political party or movement and
    to consolidate and refresh the ideas of basic cadres and its leaders.

    But this only holds true if the political party in question is a
    genuine, bona fide, and most importantly independent entity.

    In the light of the very poor showing at the polls - some might even
    say heavy defeat - by the Turkey's front, the Iraqi Turkoman Front,
    ITF, and the shock this has caused to its members after seeing how
    unpopular their front is among Turkoman electorates, this seems to be
    a suitable time to re-examine some of its basic conceptions and
    misconception, regarding its position within Iraq and South
    Kurdistan.

    To the real Turkoman voters, or those who have not voted and other
    Turkoman groups, the problem is posed in the simplest terms: the
    policy pursued by Turkey's proxy have betrayed the Turkomans,
    therefore an independent new party free of Turkish influence must be
    immediately built on ashes of the front.

    Turkey and its front did not take into account the historical
    development and momentum which post-Saddam era has ushered in South
    Kurdistan and Iraq as a whole.

    Without flexible tactics it is impossible to win or gain the trust of
    Turkoman community who understand well the suffering of the Kurds and
    the real history of Kirkuk, a city that has always been part of
    Kurdistan region.

    Then again, wooing Turkoman votes can't be attained by waging a hate
    campaign, incitement to violence against Kurds and by recruiting the
    service of every self-serving racist Arab and Turkish writers or
    indeed by importing Turkey's unique product, Kurdophobia.

    Turkey's ready made export package of hate and racism towards
    non-Turkic ethnic groups, which was enthusiastically exported and
    successfully adopted in Azerbaijan[2], has failed to produce same
    result among patriotic Turkomans.

    The century old racist practice by Turkey against Kurds in North
    Kurdistan and Armenians, which still gripping Turkish establishments
    and civil institutions, and sadly academic circles, has been despised
    by the Turkoman community who lived in solidarity with Kurds for
    centuries.

    The self-declared custodian of the rights of Turkomans in South
    Kurdistan imposed itself on the true will of Turkomans and did not
    proceed in a straight line or had a clear objective other than
    permeating MIT[3] sole wish and desire that is to hamper the orderly
    and natural process of Kurds mastering their own destiny.

    Indeed, the lack of vision and tact by members of Turkey's front, who
    seem to be quite conversant with reciting anti-Kurdish Ba'thist
    slogans than making a single campaign pledge, has done little in
    serving the real interests of the Turkoman community.

    Thus, the degeneration of the front and the subsequent disloyalty of
    Turkomans to Turkey's ill designs had as its consequence that the
    anti-Kurds elements disorientated.

    Perhaps this was the reason behind one of other interfering Turkish
    directive to its fallen comrades which was to join the Shiite
    Alliance in the hope to salvage and repair its damaged good.

    However, the victory of Kurdistan Alliance list in Iraq and
    Brotherhood list in Kirkuk and the failure of Turkey and its front to
    learn the lessons of the tumultuous events in Iraq and Kurdistan
    marked the end of this bad Turkish export.

    The sudden false rise and quick demise of Turkey's front in Iraq is a
    window of opportunity for the Turkomans to join the real democratic
    political process along with original Arabs and Kurds in Kirkuk, in
    order work together to achieve their rights within the federalist
    state of South Kurdistan.

    1. Musa Antar, was assassinated by Turkish secret service in Amed,
    North Kurdistan 1992 as part of Turkey's the then clandestine
    campaign to wipe out Kurdish intelligentsia.

    2. In a few months leading to the liberation of Iraq and while the
    world was gripped by news about the war, Azerbaijan, acting on
    Turkish advice, arrested and put in prison hundreds of Kurds
    including men, women and children, who were earlier expelled from
    Armenia because they were Muslims, on unfounded pretext of being
    members of the PKK.

    3. MIT, a Turkish acronym stands for Millet Istihbarat Teskilati,
    which in fact is made of three Arabic words, literally means: The
    Association of People's Intelligence.

    Articles published here do not necessarily reflect views of Kurdistan
    Regional Government.
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