It’s Not About The West

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  Posted By: Hevallo @ 07/02/2008 5:15:40 AM

  Since the establishment of the modern state of Turkey it has been official Turkish policy, as Inonu said at the Turkish Assembly, to "Turkify the inhabitants of this land". A forced assimilation policy has been pursued by the Turkish regime since then. It is fine to say that there have been Turkish Presidents of Kurdish origin but as long as they deny their Kurdish background they are fine. As soon as they stand up and demand Kurdish human and political rights then the only place for them is the grave or jail. The PKK are only the latest in a long history of resistance to Turkish repression. The Turks burnt over 4,000 Kurdish villages, towns and hamlets in the nineties and continue to repress the Kurds. The majority of Kurds in Turkey support the PKK and the only solution is a political and diplomatic one. Journalists and commentators would be of much more use to turn their attention to find out the reasons why Turkey refuses any political offer of ceasefires and political solutions from the Kurdish side. There is no military solution but the Kurdish Freedom Movement is ready both for peace and war!

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  Posted By: DC VA MD @ 11/04/2007 12:52:31 AM

  Turkey has approximately 80 million population and 30 million of that are the people with Kurdish origin. The country is directed by 550 house representatives and close to 200 of those have also Kurdish descent. Anybody who doesn???t believe this can check previous Turkish president, Turgut Ozal???s background in Wikipedia, who was also of partial Kurdish descent. According to Reuters news released Sun Oct 28, 2007, 12:12pm ET, 30000 people were killed since early 1980s. If a fanatic group calling themselves as a ???party??? and causing so many peoples??? death by bombing the military stations and killing the civilians including Kurdish villagers how much would you believe their ideology that saving 20 million Kurds in Turkey and giving them freedom when Kurds in Turkey can be elected even as a president? Why 2 million Kurds in Iraq are so much interested with 20 million Kurds??? rights in Turkey when more than 3 million of them are living even in Istanbul?

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  Posted By: conscious of the world affairs @ 11/01/2007 2:09:16 PM

  Eveyone should know that Turks and Kurds have been living in Turkey for hundreds of years in peace. Actually there is no prblem between two societies.
  Kurds and Turks are brothers, neighours, collegues in every parts of Turkey.
  the soldies who die in the attacks are not oly Turks but also Kurds.
  But there are some pkk terrorist groups which are supported by some forses against Turkey in te mountains. But everyone must know that Turkey is not Iraq or anothr country. Turkey is the country of Magnificient Suleyman, Mehmet II the conquerer of Istanbul , Atat??rk and all of the brave Tukish people.
  Turkey has one of the strongst of armies of the world which can not be defeated by pkk attacks.
  We hope that these pkk attacs and other countries' interruptions end , and we hope nobody feels sorry.