The Turkish Condition

The Pro-Democracy Lobby
By Daniel Bart

 May 26, 2005

The modern Turkish state was explicitly founded as a state for two peoples; Kurds and Turks. This did not last however and ethnocide quickly became the raison d’être of the Turkish republic.

Not only have successive Turkish governments denied the genocide they perpetrated against Armenians, Aramaeans and Assyrians but they have attempted to destroy the Kurdish nation in every conceivable way bar total extermination.

At this point the Turkish government wishes to join the European Union without fulfilling its criteria for membership. The cause of extending the realm of freedom is a crucial one and Turkey has proven to be an obstacle in this process.

There is no time to waste for Turkey which is embarrassing itself as it draws up plans to invade Iran in the case of a revolution in that country. Turkey aspires to pan-Turkic unity by annexing Turkic-language areas in Iran. This would also require annexation of most of Kurdistan. Turkey would thus achieve regional hegemony and control over regional energy resources while crushing any Kurdish aspiration.

This scheme is not only dangerous but clearly pathological. Many Turkish nationalists believe that Turkey is the most important country in the world and that the international Jewish conspiracy is their ubiquitous nemesis.

It is time to firmly tell Turkey to come home from Wonderland. Turkey must end its oppression of the Kurds or face international ostracism. The European Union will no longer condone Turkey’s behavior, nor will the United States of America which has experienced the depth of Kurdish friendship with the American people. There is no question that Europe and America have all the tools at their disposal to ensure compliance.

It is time to tell the truth about Turkey. This is a fascist regime that does not deserve to exist. Turkey lives in a permanent Weimar republic always bordering on insanity and genocide. Turkey must grant autonomous status to all of Northern Kurdistan and make Kurdish an official language in Turkey equal to the status of Turkish or otherwise become an international pariah that is not welcome anywhere in the free world. The Kurdish people have the right to determine its own future.