Submitted by Kourosh Abdi, Jul 22, 2007 11:55

The same way that notorious Ataturk tried to pin a modernized western mask onto the face of Eastern Islamic Turkey by force, the army and warmongers chauvinist Turks have long been trying to erase the Kurdish and Armenian Identity from the Eastern Anadol. Like their stubborn grand papa, army and chauvinist warmongers did what they could to detach the Kurds from their rich history and impose a faked western-seeming Turkish identity upon them. But thanks to the efforts of Ujalan and PKK now Kurds are reuniting with their identity of the day that the Turks had not ravaged their great land of Mesopotamia. All over the world people know that Turks immigrated to Kurds' land. People know that if the Ujalan disciples had not risen, now the Kurdish Identity was completely suppressed. Now if PKK is turning to attack, it is because the Turks know no means of communication but coercion. It was just days ago that the real dictator of the country, Yashar Biyukanit announced that all people in Turkey should be proud of their Turkish identity. Why 30 million Kurds or millions of Arminians should be proud of Turkish identity? of a faked far less rich identity than their own one. And about PKK, we should keep in mind that all what they do is counteraction. Turks displaced millions of Kurds to assimilate them. They slew thousands. How one can expect PKK simply put down weapons and stretch their neck to be cut by brutal Yashar -like people.

Turks should first learn to accept their mistakes, then talk of human values. Nobody can believe this army which toppled the democraticly elected Islamic presidents.

And about the US, if the Americans administration prefer Turks over Kurds, they buy themselves nothing but hate from even their own nation. Kurds have been far honest and highly praised human values but always sacrificed for economic interests of superpowers. Now the world should respect human values much more and support 30 million Kurds who have been denied their very basic rights by the Turks. I believe that the first step is excluding the PKK from the terrorist list and forcing the Turks into learning dialogue and reasonable negotiation. PKK has always been ready to start dialogue and put aside weapons. PKK leaders have proved their respect for peace and democracy by several cease-fires, all denied by Turks. PKK is supported and sympathized with by 30 million Kurds and even many European nations. PKK is a real representative of Kurds and has inevitably used weapons to fight for its nation's rights.

We Kurds expect the world and especially Americans to support us and not let their government to sacrifice us for its own interests.

To have a better understanding of the Turkish mindset, just read Ozzy Knights' response to my first comment. You can see love for coercion in his comment. This is a real paragon for the mindset of Turks towards 30 million Kurds and also twards Armenians.

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