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Kosovo: A solution model for Kurds in Turkey
Kurdishaspect.com - By Rebwar Rashed
Kosovo is an independent country. The last colony of the Serbia is indeed took its first step into the free world of nations.
The people of Kosovo are overjoyed despite the fact that they do realize that as a new born nation they have a long way to go, especially in the fields of economy.
Just a few hundred kilometers from Kosovo there is a nation who cries for freedom, and that is the Kurdish nation.
When the Republic of Turkey was founded in 1923 it cost the Kurds their land and freedom. Bad days were a head of the Kurds. The winning European nations of World War One accepted the outcome. The Kurds were left out.
Since then Kurdistan is occupied by Turkey.
The Turkish occupation of Kurdistan differs from the Serbian dominance in Kosovo. Turkey started to deny the existence of the Kurdish nation from the very start. The prohibition of Kurdish language is used as a method of assimilation to back up the denial policy which is based on racism.
In 85 years the Turks have tried to isolate the Kurds from the rest of the world. The public service, education, health care, infrastructure etc in Kurdistan are on a primitive level. The aim is keeping the Kurds as isolated, as poor, as uneducated and as unaware of it is situation as possible. It is always easier to suppress or to kill somebody under the name of “uncivilized”.
In order to keep it is occupation the state of Turkey has waged continues war against the Kurdish people. Hundred of villages have been destroyed and Turkey has forced the inhabitancies to move, in many cases there are ethnic cleansing and deportation against the Kurdish population. This is one of the reasons that there are Kurdish communities in some Turkish cities.
The Kurds have lost thousands of lives, there are thousands of prisoners and over a million Kurds from Turkey have left to Europe.
The Turkish atrocities against the Kurdish nation have gone beyond the Turkish territories. Turkey has open military and security agreements with Iraq, Iran and Syria against the Kurds. Any achievements by the Kurds in other countries are seen as a threat to Turkish national interest.
The Turks have succeeded to keep their repression by using a half a million of military personals. There are 420 000 Turkish solders on Kurdish soil. There are Para-military units, secret police and army personals, the so called “Village defenders”, MIT people and so on. There are also personals who work with diplomacy, politics and lobbying activity against the Kurds. The Turkish colonization of Kurdistan is politically and strategically planed. It dose not matter what kind of regime is running the affair of the state. The Kurdish situation is always the same.
When the people of Kosovo declared their independence on 17 February 2008, the White House, the Islamic Countries and many countries in Europe supported the declaration. Kosovo has an area of some 11 000 km² and a population of a little over 2 millions. The Kurds in Turkey are, according to the estimated figure of the Turkish state (observe that Turkey dose not show statistic figures of the Kurds and Kurdistan) there are over 14 million Kurds in Turkey and the area of the occupied Kurdistan (Read: North Kurdistan) is not less than 200 thousands km².
The reader understands that the rights of nations for self determination and the declaration of UN of human rights and democratic and just solution have unfortunately nothing to do with a nations cry for freedom.
When I started to write this article I had another thought though. I thought that Kosovo may pave the way for the Kurd's friends in the European Union, in the USA and other parts of the world to come up with alternative initiatives to end the isolation of Kurdish question, and show their support as they did for the South Africa against the apartheid regime, and as they do now for Kosovo and in many cases they do for the Palestine.
Now it is time for the White House, the Islamist countries and the European Union to show their support for the Kurds and to give a chance to a peaceful solution of the Kurdish question.
Serbia did not get the right to suppress another nation. Turkey should not be allowed to suppress the Kurds either.
Hitherto the state of Turkey enjoys a special privilege to deny the Kurds, to suppress them, to deport them anywhere it likes, to assimilate, exterminate and imprison them as he wishes. The Western World dose not utters a word. This is a tragedy!
Unfortunately Turkey gets military intelligence, political, diplomatic and logistic support from the United States.
The United States of America, for instance at this historical day has two different policies. In one of them it supports the declaration of independence of a nation, and in the other one it stands behind a state which has a long history of harsh suppression of a defenseless nation.
I believe that the United States of America, who calls itself a defender of liberty and freedom, owes the Kurdish nation and the international community an explanation.
Rebwar Rashed is a Kurdish author and a peace activist who stands against violence and military means.
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