Turks, Fearing Flow of Refugees, Plan Move Into Iraq

by . - º Tue Nov 26, 2002 19:46 º º

133 Years Of Agony
Being one of the largest stateless nations of the world, approximately 29 million Kurds are scattered in four major states, namely Turkey, Iran, Iraq, Syria with bits in European and former USSR countries. The fact that they have been denied simplest political and cultural rights is the very cause of Kurdish National Liberation Struggle estimated to be 133 years old.

The long and bloody adventure of Kurdish people has lasted till today thanks to unimaginable pains as well as moral, material aid and social destruction. A few hundred thousands of killed and disappeared; tens of thousands villages and towns burned and destroyed; forced migrations estimated over a million; tens of thousands people tortured and imprisoned mainly in four colonialist states, namely Turkey, Iran, Iraq and Syria;

As for those who were lucky enough to escape from this nightmarish adventure and survive, they are subjected to the usual poverty, extending from Arabic deserts to Western cities. The Kurds have become an exiled society trying to survive from day to day here and there. Furthermore, the thousands years old traditional life of Kurdish people has completely been spoilt and the doors have been opened for a moral and social alienation which already has reached to frightening levels.

Being the biggest part among others, Turkish Kurdistan has been the field of Kurdish National Liberation Struggle since 1920s. More than 40 major tribal insurrections took place on this part and all of them were suppressed with bloody massacres. By the 70s, the tribal approach of Kurdish National Liberation Struggle in Turkish Kurdistan was replaced with contemporary socialist patriotism and thus the struggle became massive by the 80s. Finally the armed resistance was started by PKK in 1984.

yes that´s right 1984.
18 years old now.
2002
-1984
= 18
old enough to think for yourself yet?

by yb Tue Nov 26, 2002 19:40 ipsiphi23 at email dot com

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