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June 21, 2007
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The Turkish Invasion of Free Kurdistan
Kurdishaspect.com - By Peter Stitt
After reading Ercan Uzan's account of the dreadful scenarios discussed at the Hudson Institute meetings recently, it has become clear (yet again) that Kurds cannot count on American or European honesty. That means there must be a "Plan B" and I hope Jalal and Masoud have already thought about this situation. If Turkey invades South Kurdistan, what should be the response?
Whilst I would have loved PKK to have put down their weapons and gone home, it was never going to happen. PKK is being used as a pretext for a Turkish invasion and destruction of the KRG but, in reality, this would have happened anyway, no matter what PKK did. So what should be the response?
If South Kurdistan is attacked, there is no PKK, there is no PUK, there is no PDK, there is just Kurdish. As soon as those tanks cross over the border there is one Kurdish nation because those tank treads will obliterate every political difference between Kurdish parties. Turkey, through its aggression, will unite the greater Kurdistan.
Conventional wisdom runs that a Turkish invasion of South Kurdistan would be a disaster for the Kurdish people but it may be the catalyst for the true unification of the Kurdish people against a common enemy, above and beyond relatively minor internal Kurdish political and tribal rivalries.
No birth is without pain, ask any Kurdish Mother! What God wills will come to pass and sometimes it is difficult, as mere humans, to see the bigger picture but the suffering of Kurdistan in the next few months may actually result in the foundation of a united Kurdish nation and the decline and fall of an aggressive and racist neighbour.
If the second largest military force in NATO is routed in the mountains, Diyarbakir becomes Amer again. I am no military tactician but I am aware of the brilliance of Kurdish peshmerga in combat in certain environments. As an American General said of the Kurdish forces following the overthrow of Saddam: "I'm glad they are on our side." I do hope you are listening Turkey.
This confrontation now seems inevitable and I am not anti-Turkish but the Turkish military is going too damned far in its anti-Kurdish activity. When the first Turkish tank rolls across the border I will be borrowing the money to fly to Howler to be with a people I love and respect, to be with them and suffer what they suffer. I'm no soldier, no military strategist, no politician, but I haven't come this far with the
Kurdish people to sit comfortably in England whilst Kurds are being attacked on their internationally recognised own land. Aside from this, I can write my account of events as a journalist and then fight for Kurdistan when required to do so.
If attacked there is ONE Kurdish people. I strongly advise Turkey to avoid its own Vietnam because that is what will come to pass. You think the end of World War One was bad Turkey with the Ottoman Empire destroyed? This one is unwinable and will, undoubtedly reduce Turkey further. Actually, go for it, invade. I think the Armenians might be interested in the outcome of this conflict.
So Turkish military High Command, you will use PKK as an excuse to try to destroy any autonomy for Kurds in South Kurdistan? Too many Kurds, too many mountains, too many people support the Kurds from outside of Kurdistan. Do you really want to make Turkey look silly? My God, you guys are dinosaurs....
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