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Mr. Sarbaxoee goes to EU
Kurdsihaspect.com - Prepared by Art-in-Mind
On my way to a conference in Brussels organized by European Union Anatolian Civic Commission (EUACC) a dark haired, light skinned, friendly, and curious young woman asked me are you Iranian. Yes, if Afghanistan is part of Iran, I kindly answered. Sorry, forget it, she said. Why, I wanted to know. Well, I am looking for a demonstration against mollusks in Iran and thought you might know where it is. Ethnically you are correct but politically I am not, I told her.
Surprised she said what? I explained the double meaning of my statement and reminded her that Iranian parrots might be fighting mollusks, while we have to fight mollusks, turkeys, camels, and ostriches in four countries. In fact I am heading toward a conference against some intolerant turkeys. So you are an independent partridge and not Afghani. What do you call independence, she wanted to know. It depends who calls it; we call it Sarbaxoee, I told her. She was in a rush to her demonstration, so we kissed each other’s cheeks and went our separate ways. Thinking of Mr. Smith’s journey to Washington, I headed toward the EU.
Upon arrival to the conference, I noticed they have not changed the name of the commission despite having their fifth annual meeting and still called it EUTCC. They also had missed the last two words in the title of the conference and named it “Time for change in turkey”. Has passed was missing, although the change should have happened in 1920s.
I was impressed by the dedication of the organizers, the quality of the conference, and the knowledge of the speakers about their themes. The chair of the conference asked me how Mrs. Zana should be introduced. Considering that soon she might be imprisoned again, I suggested Layla, the runaway prisoner. The chair smiled but decided to use Layla’s more serious title, the former MP and a Sakharaov prize winner.
Mr. Baydemir, the mayor of Diyarbakir, presented a remarkably well investigated slide show about what partridges had been telling for many years in four captive cages. Using data and evidence he showed how his city and region has been systematically discriminated against. I was also impressed by self actualization of Mr. Candar, a journalist who rightfully was proud of his identity as turkey and yet similar to his countryman, Mr. Bishkci, was advocating equal rights for turkeys and partridges. All other presenters also did a remarkable job in pointing out the facts about discrimination and the need for change by the military and the government in Ankara. I was disappointed that many self acclaimed owners of Eastern Anatolia in Ankara had refused to participate in this dialogue for peace.
Since there was no room for political incorrectness, I presented my satirical slides during the dinner in a very artistically designed restaurant in Brussels. The title of my presentation was “Doubts, Dreams, and Development, a 3D presentation in 2 dimensions”, and contained 15 main points summarized in this 1001-words essay.
1. Change starts with doubt. However, doubt is not suitable for children and those of us who are not ready to question our holy political, religious, and cultural views.
2. I doubt the legitimacy of multi-national countries that mix holiness and state and insist on the sacredness and official dominance of their religion, language, and ethnicity.
3. Holy men hide their head under a big traditional hat either to look bigger to their followers or to cover their baldness.
4. While holy statesmen are easily removed from power in the free world, in the oppressive world any doubt about them is responded first with an index finger and then with elimination.
5. Although holy statesmen force everyone to be happy with a star and a half moon, stateless partridges dream of the sun itself as a symbol of their identity.
6. Such a dream is either overcompensation for losers’ lack of confidence or experience of prolonged darkness created by powerful men.
7. In traditional societies men are expected to be powerful and serve their nation. However, they might be confusing serving a nation with semen ejection.
8. In the “land of the free” they might be limited to an online conception with those with limited intellect, resources, or decision making capacity such as minors. In the “land of the blind” they go beyond an online abuse and metaphorically conceive with all their constituents without their approval.
9. It might take years of enlightening for such constituents to recognize they deserve better. Revolutions have not helped them, I hope evolution will.
10. If evolved they can be themselves and ask, what can they do for their country. However, homeless or stateless people cannot be even themselves. They not only have to change their names, but also to face imprisonment for using their language in an official setting such as parliament.
11. Many people have doubted the legitimacy of oppressors, dreamed of equality and development, and fulfilled the dream. Few examples include abolishing slavery in the US in 1883, American women voting right in 1920, bringing Apartheid in South Africa to its knee in 1994, and collapse of totalitarian regimes in the East Block in 1990s.
12. MLK had a dream and Mandela and Obama fulfilled it. Qazi had a dream, but the state killed it. Barzani had a dream, but he faced Kissinger. Zana has a dream but NATO disapproves it.
13. Despite all the obstacles development is inevitable and everyone’s peaceful dream comes true sooner or later, even the one of partridges, hatching and development of their eggs.
14. In a fair animal farm bird hunting will be banned. Instead of pigs asking other pigs how they like eggs for breakfast, they would ask eggs’ rightful owners about the matter.
15. In such a farm play is fair, partridges will have an independent nest, and say “yes we can” do something for ourselves and others instead of asking what others can do for us.
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