Brutal police of Caliph Erdogan have used tear gas and water
cannon on protesters. Pretrial detention in Turkey is being used as a
punishment without trial. Turkey abuses civil liberties under the
pretense of shutting down terrorist organizations. Turkey's terrorism
laws aren't being used against terrorists. They're used against innocent
military officers, journalists, academics, defense lawyers, and ethnic
Kurds accused of imaginary pseudoterrorist conspiracies. All charges are
attacks on free speech.
Caliph Erdogan has limited the ability of ordinary Turks to question his power. The anxiety produced by Erdogan's actions against journalists, the military, and politicians has produced a high degree of self-censorship. Erdogan has empowered special security courts to arrest citizens on suspicion of terrorism without evidence or any right to a hearing and has used judicial indictments to target those calling for greater autonomy for the Kurds. Erdogan has virtually taken over the Turkish Academy of Sciences, once a bastion of Kemalist orthodoxy.
A thousand protesters gathered outside the headquarters of the Kurdish Peace and Democracy Party (BDP) when the brutal police fired water cannon and tear gas without warning. Turks and Kurds lock horns over Northern Kurdistan. Kurdistan will eventually become an independent nation. Kurdish people are definitely a nation deserving of a sovereign homeland out of the territories where Kurdish people form a majority. Currently, these territories lie in northern Iraq, northwestern Iran, southeastern Turkey and northeastern Syria.
Twenty million Kurds live in Northern Kurdistan occupied by Turkey, ten million in Eastern Kurdistan occupied by Iran, seven million in Southern Kurdistan occupied by Iraq, and three million in Western Kurdistan occupied by Syria. The wish of forty million Kurds cannot be ignored by civil society. Support an independent Kurdistan now. Viva Kurdistan!
The protesters were chanting evacuate prisons and freedom to inmates as well as slogans supporting Abdullah Ocalan, the imprisoned President of Northern Kurdistan. The Kurdish army is fighting for an autonomous Kurdistan. Abdullah Ocalan, the heroic leader of Kurds, was betrayed by the government of Greece, and Ocalan was captured in Kenya in 1999, while being transferred from the Greek embassy to the airport of Nairobi, in a coordinated operation of the intelligence services of Turkey, USA, and Israel.
The hunger strikers are calling for improved jail conditions for Abdullah Ocalan, who is prison on an island off Istanbul and for restrictions to be lifted on the use of the Kurdish language. Northern Kurdistan forms the south-eastern part of Turkey. It is dominated by high peaks rising to over 3,700 meters and arid mountain plateaux, forming part of the arc of the Taurus Mountains. The occupation of Northern Kurdistan is opposed by all Kurds, and has resulted in a long-running separatist conflict in which fifty thousand lives have been lost.
The hunger strike, which is now in its 54th day, is comprised of a number of senior Kurdish figures including jailed politicians, mayors and parliamentarians, some of them in the BDP, which holds 29 of the 550 seats in the Turkish parliament. Northern Kurdistan saw several major Kurdish rebellions. These were forcefully put down by the Turkish authorities and the region was declared a closed military area. The use of Kurdish language was outlawed, the words Kurds and Kurdistan were erased from dictionaries and history books, and the Kurds were only referred to as Mountain Turks!
Many of the strikers are consuming sugar, water, and vitamins to drag out their lives and the protest by weeks. The Turkish medical Organization (TTB) warned on Thursday that many of those fasting will have already incurred lasting damage and will start to die in a matter of days. But the strike has incurred little sympathy from Erdogan. Erdogan branded the strikers' actions a complete show. Erdogan accuses Kurdish politicians of stuffing themselves with kebabs while ordering militants to starve. Dr. Aytug Atici, an opposition lawmaker and a medical doctor, who toured the prisons earlier this week, said Erdogan's comments only appeared to have stiffened the striker's resolve.
As Syria's crisis deepens, Western Kurdistan occupied by Syria, is now liberated. Syrian Kurdish groups have formed a de facto state in the north of Syria. The Kurdish army took control of several provinces near Turkey's border. Kurdish flags and posters of Ocalan fly from buildings in Western Kurdistan towns. Davutoglu threatens the new state of Western Kurdistan: We will not allow the
formation of a terrorist structuring near our border. We reserve every right. No
matter what it is, we would consider it a matter of national,security and take every measure.
Yasar Kemal, one of Turkey's best known novelists, has joined the chorus of support for the fasters and has urged the government to stop the protesters from dying, reminding them of the outcome of previous hunger strikes. Between 2000 and 2007, 122 prisoners died from hunger strikes against isolation cells.
Erdogan accuses Assad of allowing the Kurdish army a free hand in the north of Syria and warned Ankara would not hesitate to strike. Recent developments have come as an unpleasant surprise to Turcokleptocrats. When Syrian Kurds distanced themselves from the Assad regime, Turkey welcomed this development. But Ankara did not expect Syrian Kurds would soon unite around the Kurdish army.
Turkey has been fighting against the Kurdish army since 1984, and the conflict has so far claimed fifty thousand lives. The Kurdish army has been effectively using its bases in the mountainous region of Southern Kurdistan. With its growing influence and strength in Syria's Kurdish populated regions, the Kurdish army has now liberated Western Kurdistan.
The recent developments have sparked stronger demands by Turkish Kurds from
Ankara and further increased tension in Northern Kurdistan, occupied by Turkey.
Turkish MP Baydemir points out the only way ahead is the creation of autonomous
Kurdistan regions in Turkey, Syria and Iran, just as the one in Iraq. Now
we got the new state of Western Kurdistan. There must be an abolition of borders
among the regions of Kurdistan, the creation of a customs union, and a new political
partnership with the occupying countries.
For years, Turkey's Kurds are deprived of their basic political and cultural
rights. As concerns grow in Turkey about the new state of Western Kurdistan, the
Turkish military has stepped up its deployment on the border. The president of Southern Kurdistan, Massud Barzani, cannot be hoodwinked by Erdogan. Turkey is trying to convince Barzani to betray his people! This is mission impossible.
Erdogan wants to overthrow Assad, but he expects that the mosaic of Syrian society, its ethnic make-up, will remain stable. When you shake the kaleidoscope, you cannot be certain where the pieces will fall down. Erdogan cannot have his cake and eat it too when it comes to toppling Assad and maintaining regional stability. With the growing hostility between Ankara and Damascus and the fact that the Turkish and Syrian authorities have lost control of large parts of the border with Turkey, the Kurdish army can operate in Northern Kurdistan.
Threatening Syria with reprisals will only fuel the independence of Kurdistan, just as cracking down on Kurdish resistance does not change the fact that now we have two autonomous areas on the Turkish border, Southern Kurdistan and Western Kurdistan. Lebanonization of Syria leads to liberation of Kurdistan. But Erdogan wants to have it both ways. He wants to see the implosion of the Syrian regime, but he doesn't want to see the liberation of Kurdistan. For Turks, this logical contradiction is coming home to haunt them.
Caliph Erdogan has limited the ability of ordinary Turks to question his power. The anxiety produced by Erdogan's actions against journalists, the military, and politicians has produced a high degree of self-censorship. Erdogan has empowered special security courts to arrest citizens on suspicion of terrorism without evidence or any right to a hearing and has used judicial indictments to target those calling for greater autonomy for the Kurds. Erdogan has virtually taken over the Turkish Academy of Sciences, once a bastion of Kemalist orthodoxy.
A thousand protesters gathered outside the headquarters of the Kurdish Peace and Democracy Party (BDP) when the brutal police fired water cannon and tear gas without warning. Turks and Kurds lock horns over Northern Kurdistan. Kurdistan will eventually become an independent nation. Kurdish people are definitely a nation deserving of a sovereign homeland out of the territories where Kurdish people form a majority. Currently, these territories lie in northern Iraq, northwestern Iran, southeastern Turkey and northeastern Syria.
Twenty million Kurds live in Northern Kurdistan occupied by Turkey, ten million in Eastern Kurdistan occupied by Iran, seven million in Southern Kurdistan occupied by Iraq, and three million in Western Kurdistan occupied by Syria. The wish of forty million Kurds cannot be ignored by civil society. Support an independent Kurdistan now. Viva Kurdistan!
The protesters were chanting evacuate prisons and freedom to inmates as well as slogans supporting Abdullah Ocalan, the imprisoned President of Northern Kurdistan. The Kurdish army is fighting for an autonomous Kurdistan. Abdullah Ocalan, the heroic leader of Kurds, was betrayed by the government of Greece, and Ocalan was captured in Kenya in 1999, while being transferred from the Greek embassy to the airport of Nairobi, in a coordinated operation of the intelligence services of Turkey, USA, and Israel.
The hunger strikers are calling for improved jail conditions for Abdullah Ocalan, who is prison on an island off Istanbul and for restrictions to be lifted on the use of the Kurdish language. Northern Kurdistan forms the south-eastern part of Turkey. It is dominated by high peaks rising to over 3,700 meters and arid mountain plateaux, forming part of the arc of the Taurus Mountains. The occupation of Northern Kurdistan is opposed by all Kurds, and has resulted in a long-running separatist conflict in which fifty thousand lives have been lost.
The hunger strike, which is now in its 54th day, is comprised of a number of senior Kurdish figures including jailed politicians, mayors and parliamentarians, some of them in the BDP, which holds 29 of the 550 seats in the Turkish parliament. Northern Kurdistan saw several major Kurdish rebellions. These were forcefully put down by the Turkish authorities and the region was declared a closed military area. The use of Kurdish language was outlawed, the words Kurds and Kurdistan were erased from dictionaries and history books, and the Kurds were only referred to as Mountain Turks!
Many of the strikers are consuming sugar, water, and vitamins to drag out their lives and the protest by weeks. The Turkish medical Organization (TTB) warned on Thursday that many of those fasting will have already incurred lasting damage and will start to die in a matter of days. But the strike has incurred little sympathy from Erdogan. Erdogan branded the strikers' actions a complete show. Erdogan accuses Kurdish politicians of stuffing themselves with kebabs while ordering militants to starve. Dr. Aytug Atici, an opposition lawmaker and a medical doctor, who toured the prisons earlier this week, said Erdogan's comments only appeared to have stiffened the striker's resolve.
As Syria's crisis deepens, Western Kurdistan occupied by Syria, is now liberated. Syrian Kurdish groups have formed a de facto state in the north of Syria. The Kurdish army took control of several provinces near Turkey's border. Kurdish flags and posters of Ocalan fly from buildings in Western Kurdistan towns. Davutoglu threatens the new state of Western Kurdistan: We will not allow the
formation of a terrorist structuring near our border. We reserve every right. No
matter what it is, we would consider it a matter of national,security and take every measure.
Yasar Kemal, one of Turkey's best known novelists, has joined the chorus of support for the fasters and has urged the government to stop the protesters from dying, reminding them of the outcome of previous hunger strikes. Between 2000 and 2007, 122 prisoners died from hunger strikes against isolation cells.
Erdogan accuses Assad of allowing the Kurdish army a free hand in the north of Syria and warned Ankara would not hesitate to strike. Recent developments have come as an unpleasant surprise to Turcokleptocrats. When Syrian Kurds distanced themselves from the Assad regime, Turkey welcomed this development. But Ankara did not expect Syrian Kurds would soon unite around the Kurdish army.
Turkey has been fighting against the Kurdish army since 1984, and the conflict has so far claimed fifty thousand lives. The Kurdish army has been effectively using its bases in the mountainous region of Southern Kurdistan. With its growing influence and strength in Syria's Kurdish populated regions, the Kurdish army has now liberated Western Kurdistan.
The recent developments have sparked stronger demands by Turkish Kurds from
Ankara and further increased tension in Northern Kurdistan, occupied by Turkey.
Turkish MP Baydemir points out the only way ahead is the creation of autonomous
Kurdistan regions in Turkey, Syria and Iran, just as the one in Iraq. Now
we got the new state of Western Kurdistan. There must be an abolition of borders
among the regions of Kurdistan, the creation of a customs union, and a new political
partnership with the occupying countries.
For years, Turkey's Kurds are deprived of their basic political and cultural
rights. As concerns grow in Turkey about the new state of Western Kurdistan, the
Turkish military has stepped up its deployment on the border. The president of Southern Kurdistan, Massud Barzani, cannot be hoodwinked by Erdogan. Turkey is trying to convince Barzani to betray his people! This is mission impossible.
Erdogan wants to overthrow Assad, but he expects that the mosaic of Syrian society, its ethnic make-up, will remain stable. When you shake the kaleidoscope, you cannot be certain where the pieces will fall down. Erdogan cannot have his cake and eat it too when it comes to toppling Assad and maintaining regional stability. With the growing hostility between Ankara and Damascus and the fact that the Turkish and Syrian authorities have lost control of large parts of the border with Turkey, the Kurdish army can operate in Northern Kurdistan.
Threatening Syria with reprisals will only fuel the independence of Kurdistan, just as cracking down on Kurdish resistance does not change the fact that now we have two autonomous areas on the Turkish border, Southern Kurdistan and Western Kurdistan. Lebanonization of Syria leads to liberation of Kurdistan. But Erdogan wants to have it both ways. He wants to see the implosion of the Syrian regime, but he doesn't want to see the liberation of Kurdistan. For Turks, this logical contradiction is coming home to haunt them.
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