tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23062023.post115401907728263514..comments2009-07-22T22:44:08.458-06:00Comments on Kurdish Aspect: Kurdish Aspecthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11792114430997885389noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23062023.post-1154993782203816292006-08-07T17:36:00.000-06:002006-08-07T17:36:00.000-06:00"Kurdish people should not forget who they are mar..."Kurdish people should not forget who they are married to, related to and are culturally, historically are inseperably intertwined with. It is easy to make enemies but hard to build bridges of friendship.<BR/>Many strangers have come and gone through our lands. You decide who is here to stay. "<BR/><BR/>In fact Turks are strangers to Kurds and foreigners on Kurdish land.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23062023.post-1154993669440890692006-08-07T17:34:00.000-06:002006-08-07T17:34:00.000-06:00Most of your writers seem to build their aspiratio...Most of your writers seem to build their aspirations on a newly found love for the US. Sentences like "no one in the region supports the US more than Kurds and Jews" are trangely used as a positive attribute...<BR/><BR/>I find it rather amusing and simplistic, as it seems to slip their attention to have a larger scale of vision. Arabs have been in that region a long time and<BR/>they will be there a while yet as will be the Iranians and Turks. Good relationships have been and will be important yesterday, today and for a long time to come. <BR/><BR/>Kurdish people should not forget who they are married to, related to and are culturally, historically are inseperably intertwined with. It is easy to make enemies but hard to build bridges of friendship. <BR/>Many strangers have come and gone through our lands. You decide who is here to stay. <BR/>___________________________________Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23062023.post-1154947681296584592006-08-07T04:48:00.000-06:002006-08-07T04:48:00.000-06:00Thanks for the response. I was not trying to say t...Thanks for the response. <BR/><BR/>I was not trying to say that this is a soluion but I just had an idea and wanted some discussion about solutions for the Kurdish people. <BR/><BR/>I would like to keep this discussion alive (if there are other sites dedicated to this, I would be gateful if someone would give me their web address), as I don't really know what the Kurds think would help them achieve independence.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23062023.post-1154922357207163192006-08-06T21:45:00.000-06:002006-08-06T21:45:00.000-06:00The idea of the Kurdish region joining Turkey make...The idea of the Kurdish region joining Turkey makes me howl with laughter (unfortunately). This would only be possible if the Kurds wanted to give up their language, culture and pretend to be Turkish. This is what the Turkish state demands. This is in the Turkish constitution ( I think it is article 66). A citizen of Turkey is Turkish. No room to be a citizen of Turkey and be Kurdish. Yes, in an ideal world, Turkey would be able to recognize the Kurds as a distinct ethnic and culural group. Because of Turkey's EU ambitions, there have been some steps forward on the Kurdish issue, but for every step forward, one or two back and it is stilll AGAINST THE LAW in Turkey to speak Kurdish in a political speech. Turkey is still emptying villages through various means (for instance the building of the dam that will flood Hasaneyf and displace thousands of Kurdish people from their villages) wiping out a way of life that has gone on for generations and resulting in a forced assimilation, the loss of one's language and identity not to mention complete economic disenfranchisement. Last year Erdogan said he did not want to see a Kurdistan even if it was in Latin America. <BR/><BR/>I am not Kurdish, -- I'm American but have spent a lot of time in Northern Kurdistan (Eastern Turkey). <BR/><BR/><BR/>It made me extremely sad to see how little Turkish people in the west (Istanbul) know about their own country-- and it is painful to say this because I have many Turkish friends. But for many reasons people buy into everything the government tells them. That "things are getting better, the Kurds are getting they're rights." I didn't see this when I was there. (in summer of 2004 and 2005). It felt very much like a place under military occupation. <BR/><BR/>As for trusting in America to do anything helpful for the Kurds... right now to me, this love affair looks like a temporary marraige. America has betrayed the Kurds before and I have a terrible fear about what could happen. Yes America could stop Turkey from taking Kirkuk, but the question is, would it? It's a complicated and volatile situation.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23062023.post-1154887925294279412006-08-06T12:12:00.000-06:002006-08-06T12:12:00.000-06:00I have only one quastion, how come that everybody ...I have only one quastion, how come that everybody bealives Turkey has power enough to do what ever they like with kurds? Turkey can't do anything if USA dosen't alow them to....Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23062023.post-1154836435241397152006-08-05T21:53:00.000-06:002006-08-05T21:53:00.000-06:00Off topic, I just had a question (or an idea) whic...Off topic, <BR/>I just had a question (or an idea) which may sound very very stupid, but wouldn't it be in the interest of the Kurdish region of Iraq to join Turkey? Wouldn't it be possible for the Kurds to ask for the Kurdish region of Turkey to join them in an autonomous kurdish region within Turkey. I'm asking this because I don't think the Turks would ever allow Kurds to take hold of Kirkuk, or in the case of the brake up of Iraq to hold a state of their own. If they join Turkey, they could ask them for autonomy within the state of Turkey which would mean uniting two regions of Kurdistan and maybe getting the Thumbs up from the Turks to take hold of Kirkuk. I think with EU watching Turkey, Turky could change it treatment of the Kurds especially if they don't ask for independance. The lesser the players involved the higher chance of Kurdistan ever to beome a state of its own. The state of the Kurds in iraq is not necessarily going to stay that way. <BR/><BR/>I just wanted to provoke some discussion with Kurds, so I would love to hear from you. Please think about it first then see it you would disagree.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com