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Unfortunately, the situations with the Kurds does not get too much media attention in the United States. I taught English as a second language to Kurdish refugees from northern Iraq. They informed me very much about the human rights abuse against them during the dictatorship of Saddam Hussein. Which is what brought them to the United States under refugee status. President Obama confronted Turkish officials about admitting to the Armenian Genocide, but they also need to be confronted about the human rights abuse against its Kurdish minority.
Yes Tim: Kurds’ plight does not get enough media attention in the West. We Armenians need help more.
But you are wrong on President Obama: he did not confront Turkish officials about admitting the Armenian Genocide. In fact, after becoming POTUS, he has consistently and deliberately avoided the expression ‘Armenian Genocide’.
In fact, his Secretary of State Clinton even questioned the historical fact of the AG: not one word of disapproval from POTUS. Pres Obama’s Administration is dangerously close to being AG Denialists.
I think the future for the Kurds is as bright as its been for centuries. Kurds now are in control of parts of northern Syria, Kurds control northern Iraq- and I think an independent Kurdistan is not far away. The BDP (who I voted for in the 2011 Turkish elections), is insistent on the Turkish government starting negotiations with Abdullah Ocalan. He is a terrorist, and I don’t see much wiggle room on that statement. He IS a terrorist that started the PKK which to this day uses insurgency and terrorism with the goal of establishing an independent Kurdistan. In the 1980s, when Kurdish oppression was at its peak, the PKKs actions are understandable, though still wrong. But today? It’s pointless and stupid. All it does is give Turkey- who has been slightly improving Kurdish rights to say- “we’re offering an olive branch, they refuse and continue attacking us.”
How many more thousands of Kurds and Turks need to die for them to understand that terrorism will never defeat the Turkish government? Since the 1980s, all the PKK has done is kill mainly innocent 20 year old Turkish soldiers, a vast majority of which didn’t want to be there. In Turkey, the richest kids get out of the military by studying overseas, the middle to upper middle class kids generally get safe military posts in the North, Southwest, and West, and it’s generally the poorest 10% of Turkish citizens who end up in the southeast. The Kurdish southeast also happens to be the poorest region of Turkey, so actually many of the soldiers the PKK kill are Kurds or have Kurdish ancestry.
BDP wants a peaceful resolution- fine I support this- but I need to see some proof, the BDP needs to disassociate themselves from Ocalan. If they don’t they’ll only be feeding the endless cycle of endless, pointless violence. And I definitely won’t vote anymore for a party that associates with terrorists. Kurds are an ancient people who have lived on those lands for millennia- if in 2012 we STILL don’t have a state, well then perhaps it’s time to start looking in the mirror rather then blaming others all the time for our issues.
If the DTP wants to be a righteous voice in the Kurdish community, they need to call out the PKK for it’s terrorism and they need to criticise PKK and Abdullah Ocalan’s past actions. If DTP wants to negotiate, they need to disassociate themselves with the PKK, otherwise they will be treated the same as PKK members.