Latif Serhildan
Since Ireland elected the new president Michael D. Higgins I personally congratulate him. This man is champion of Peace, Democracy in Ireland. People made a good choice. Once more the world media has reported a tragedy from Kurdistan calling it Turkish earthquake. Is it bad enough that almost thousands of Kurds lost their lives and still calling these people Turks? If they were Turks how come Turkish Prime Minister Erdogan didn’t except any help from more than 50 countries?
The fact is more 24 hours of the earthquake there was not still a single Turkish rescue team in Kurdish city of Wan. Wan in Kurdish spelled with W but in Turkish this alphabet does not exist so the name of Wan is spelled in Turkish V. The survivors in the worst hit towns of Ercis and Wan are now huddled around fires and in rescue shelters, attempting to overcome the shock and grief, and fend off the freezing conditions.
Approximately 40,000 people have been made homeless and are in desperate need of shelter, blankets, sleeping bags and heaters. The Erdogan government has already had to apologise for not distributing tents for the neediest quickly enough, and protests were triggered by one Turkish TV ITV host who suggested that “Kurds who battle the police should not now expect any assistance from them”.
Racism and discrimination against the Kurds in Turkey and Europe has reached to the far end of the line. It is too far that in this day age. That Kurds are being targeted in Turkey, EU member states by fascist Turks. Why the Turks began their campaign on Kurdish civilians? It was after the killing of Turkish soldiers by the Kurdish PKK fighters that Turkish Premier and president Abdullah Gul saying that “ Insanely korkunc olacak” Humanity will be scary. It is that the reason why 24 members of Kurdish PKK guerrillas were killed and cut into thousands of pieces few days ago? The answer is yes. If the country’s president says these words, TV presenters and many other public figures saying these kinds of words than here are the results.
Since the pro-Kurdish Peace and Democracy Party (BDP) ended its boycott of Parliament on 2 October 2011, some 150 politicians, human rights activists, and community leaders have been taken into police custody on the basis of their alleged membership to the KCK, an umbrella organization that includes the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK). Many of those have arrested are members of the BDP. Since 2009, an estimated 4,000 Kurds have been arrested in the context of the KCK trials, many of them BDP members. Meanwhile, the Turkish parliament has extended the government’s mandate allowing the military to continue cross-border military operations for the fourth successive year.
I am not sure if Gul knows anything about the history of the Turks? But I say this, Insanlik herzaman korkunctu Turkiye’de. “Humanity was always dragged to the grounds in Turkey” it actually never left; I don’t know why he said that because for decades Turkey and Turks killed, tortured, imprisoned, exiled Kurds through history. Turkish AKP government and it is military has taken this objectives to carry out absolute massacres against Kurdish freedom movement; its political leaders, and Kurdish nation as whole. Kurds are facing cultural, political genocide in Turkey. It is time for the Kurds to rise up against this brutal Turkish oppressive regime.