Kurdish Media, UK
June 4 2006

Do the Turks understand the rights of a passport holder

6/3/2006 KurdishMedia.com – By Heval Hylani
Introduction

A passport is an identity document issued by a sovereign country to
its people. The identify document facilitates entry and exist into
international borders with relative ease. The color, shape and size
of the identify document varies from country to country and it
usually depicts the holder’s photograph, signature, date of birth,
nationality, and sometimes other means of individual identification.

In modern time, passports are used, reused and even misused by one
and all for various reasons. To arrest any misuse or forgery, many
countries are in the process of developing biometric properties for
their passports in order to further confirm that the person
presenting the passport is the legitimate holder.

Language on Passports

In 1920 the International Conference on Passports, Customs
Formalities and Through Tickets mandated that passports be issued in
French and at least one other language, though many countries,
particularly in Asia, now issue passports in English and the language
of the issuing country. For example:

1. Belgium allows its citizens to choose which of its three official
languages (Dutch, French, or German) should appear first in the
individual’s passport.

2. The face page of the Hungarian passports (“Útlevél” in Hungarian,
lit. “Roadletter”) is in Hungarian only, though on the inside there
is a second, Hungarian-English bilingual page citing “Passport” also.
The personal information page offers trilingual Hungarian, English
and French explanation for the details. An additional page including
the explanations in English, French, Chinese, Russian, Spanish and
Arabic has been added in recent years.

3. Passports issued by European Union member states bear all of the
official languages of the European Union.

4. United States passports, once issued in English and French only,
are now issued in English, French, and Spanish since the second
Clinton administration, due to the fact that they are used in
Spanish-speaking Puerto Rico. Soviet passports were also printed in
Russian and French.

Iraqi passport with Kurdish language

Most of the countries recognise Iraqi passports, with few exceptions.

Generally these exceptions are due to circumstances where one country
does not recognise another territory’s administration as a sovereign
state, but Iraq is a sovereign state, and Kurdistan is a Federal
State in its motherland Kurdistan.

Double standards with Cyprus

The Turks have unwise experience in passport disputes. The `Turkish
Republic of Northern Cyprus (TRNC)’ issues passports, but only Turkey
recognises the statehood of Northern Cyprus. TRNC passports are not
accepted for entry into the Republic of Cyprus. Until 2003, the
Republic of Turkey did not accept passports of the Republic of
Cyprus, because it did not recognize that government.

Turkey now accepts Republic of Cyprus passports, but does not stamp
them; rather, Turkish immigration officials stamp a separate visa
issued by the Turkish state.

Turkey’s fear and hatred

A complex and bizarre situation exists in Turkey, where Kurds living
as dhimmis-subjugated non-Muslims, are facing the dual-loyalty issue.
The hatred of the Federal State of Kurdistan by the Kamelist cannot
be considered unique. Turkey desired to see the Kurdish Federal State
destroyed. Turkey has taken control of many extreme terrorist cells,
and giving them funds and orders to attack the Kurds in their
homeland in particularly in Kirkuk.

Kurds in Turkey face wide-spread hatred and there are obviously hate
in Turkish blood vessels. The Kurds in Turkey experience constant
distrust, as Kamelist authorities consider them threat to their
uncivilized state rules.

Hatred of the Federal State of Kurdistan is an issue which needs to
be examined in Turkey. When looking at Turkish society, we find many
sensitive issues facing the Kurds. Like in many other Muslim
countries Turks are in fear, whether they admit it openly or not.
They answer is not one we will establish here, that question will
remain open for now.

Turkey and the European Union

The question that remained subject to the dialogue is: How on earth
Turkey apply to become a member of the EU? How could EU baptise a
dirty mind by washing it is body. Turks built their state on
Armenian, Kurds bodies and hate to everyone. How could they enter EU
if they are not willing to share, to learn, to civilise.

Conclusion

The Kamelist have to understand that the international community will
condemn and force them to abandon the national hate that `Turkey is
only for the Turks’ and begrave the roots of this national hate. The
Turks not only hate the Kurds, they also hate Arabs. In Turkey if a
Turk acts stupidly (which is very usual), they call him `Arab’. So
why the Turks are happy with the Arabic text, but not the Kurdish.

We all know that the time will come soon for the 35-40 millions Kurds
in Turkey to say NO to Kamelist and force the Turks to bend for the
Kurdish Human Rights, otherwise the roads to EU would be impossible
for their crimes against humanity.