‘KURDS ARE FALLING INTO THE SAME TRAP ARMENIANS FELL INTO’
By Osman Asilturk, Istanbul
Zaman, Turkey
April 17 2006
The Agos daily’s Editor in Chief, Hrant Dink, said some Kurds are now
being deceived by the same Western trick that Armenians fell into in
the past.
Armenians made the mistake in the past of believing the British,
German, French, and Russians, claimed Dink, who asked the Kurds not
to believe the promises made by the US to set up a Kurdish state in
Northern Iraq.
A conference on Malatya, an eastern Turkish province, was held with
the participation of famous people from the city as part of the Malatya
Businessmen Association’s (MIAD) 3rd Intellectual Platform meeting.
Dink, noting that he is from Malatya, maintained that the Armenians
fell into a trap when they tried to get rid of the Ottoman State in
the 1915s.
“The British, French, Russians and Germans are repeating the same
game they played on this territory in the past. The Armenian people
believed in them in the past. They thought they would be rescued
them from Ottoman persecution. However, they were deceived because
the superpowers made their own calculations, they encouraged brothers
to kill each other on this territory and then left,” Dink said.
The Editor in Chief claimed that Kurds are now being deceived using
the same trick, and defended that America uses Kurds on the pretext
of establishing a Kurdish state in Northern Iraq.
“The US came in order to set up a Kurdish state in Northern Iraq”
the Armenian origin journalist said, “and we are reminded of the
games of the past that are being played out again today”.
“Political calculations and party differences must be put aside. This
is the US. It will come, deal with its own initiatives and leave as
soon as its job is over. In the aftermath, those left behind will
fight against each other,” Dink said.