The United State should equally protect the
Kurds in Northern Kurdistan
By: Ako Mohamamd
June 5, 2007
The Turkish regime has launched an indiscriminate incursion against its own 25
-million unarmed Kurdish civilians.
These authoritarian and repressive policies have continued for decade under the
cover of fighting terrorism and separatism. It is an unconditional noncompliance
of international treaties, but the Western powers expose no reluctance to
condemn the Turks for committing such gruesome crimes.
Approximately two fifth of Turkey ’s 65 million people are of Kurdish ethnicity.
Since its founding from the remnant of Ottoman Empire , Kurds have been the
principal victims of the Turkish state's excesses. The Kurdish issue is the most
pivotal internal problem in the Turkish republic's seventy-seven-year history
and indubitably the core sticking point to its aspirations to full integration
with European institutions.
Regretfully, the Turks have not yet been able to embrace this reality and
constantly attempt to portray it rather as a socioeconomic problem in their
southeastern region and a problem of terrorism that is dependent on external
support from foreign states aiming at weakening Turkey .
The Turks should understand that the Kurdish issue in Turkey differs in many
respects from such recent ethnic conflicts as those in Bosnia , Chechnya ,
Kosovo , Liberia , Nagorno-Karabakh, and Rwanda . The Kurdish dilemma in Turkey
is totally distinct from the problem of PKK. Turkish state is not acting in
accord with its own rhetoric stipulating that the Kurdish issue is distinct from
PKK.
Washington condemned Saddam for its treatment of the Kurds in South Kurdistan
(Kurdistan region-northern Iraq ).
Concurrently, it should disallow Turkey ’s equally brutal repression of its own
Kurdish population, where more than 37,000 Kurds have been killed in the past
two decades.
The civilized world needs to speak out unequivocally against ethnic cleansing
under any circumstances.
The international community should take immediate and concrete steps to stop
Turkeys ’ state terrorism against the Kurdish people, and protect innocent
Kurdish lives.
