Kurdish Aspect, CO
July 11 2006
Independent South Kurdistan after 15 years of Self-Rule
Book Review – "Independent South Kurdistan" by Steve Tataii
Kurd Net
THE WAR OF LIBERATION AFTER 85 YEARS Unfair treatment of the Kurds
by Turkey shows it is still the true terrorist military regime in
the region without improvement since 1915 Kamal Ataturk’s Tyrannical
Rule with his forceful Westernization. [This is the Modified version
of my article first posted by Kurdistan Observer on April 10, 2003]
This war and all other wars in Southern and Northern Kurdistan have
been caused by Turkey’s barbaric and senseless prevention of forming
an Independent Kurdistan in 1920, keeping the 5-7 million Kurds in
Southern Kurdistan and more tan 25 million Kurds in North Kurdistan (a
figure Turkey has tried to conceal), [as well as over 2.5 million Kurds
in West Kurdistan Syria Cannot deny], in constant bloody clashes and
wars for freedom in the past 85 years. If the League of Nations had
implemented an independent Kurdistan in 1920s; there would have been
no wars, and no Tyrant regimes in Iraq would have dared to emerge. What
Turkey did against Kurds in 1920 has had a similar domino effect in the
other 3 Kurdish parts. As I have stated before, and I say it again: in
simple terms, Turkey, which has the gall to accuse the Kurdish freedom
fighters as terrorists and render this malicious verbal assault on
Kurds and endanger our U.S. troops while in action to liberate Iraq,
is the most dangerous terrorist regime itself; hence Turkey has been
the only major threat to peace, security, and stability in the region,
and in essence must be disarmed immediately.
American and Kurdish Peshmarga must always keep this crucial fact in
mind and deal with it accordingly as a move to disarm Turkish terrorist
military establishment as quickly as possible if they refuse to have
a positive change in their military-Ruled regime. Here is a quick
and comprehensive look at Turkey’s major international crimes since
1920: The origin of the whole dilemma causing a war for liberation by
Kurds in their own ancient homeland encompassing an area as large as
California began around 85 years ago. By 1920 the vast Ottoman Empire
fell apart after the WWI, and its nations were left with no central
power to answer to Sultans in the fallen Capitol City of the Ottoman
Empire in Constantinople, today known as Istanbul.
Kurdistan was scheduled to be an Independent country of its own
together with a few other nations on the listed nations of the
drafted treaty of Sevres being implemented by the League of Nations
to bring peace, security, and stability in the post ottoman empire
era. All those nations living peacefully side by side within the
Ottoman Empire including those located in Lebanon, Jordan, Syria,
Saudi Arabia, Iraq, and the reduced portion of the Empire itself,
Turkey, did achieve their independence through that treaty, but the
nations of Kurdistan, Azerbaijan, and Armenia did not because of the
left over and reduced portion of the Empire, namely "Turkey." With
its expansionist greedy nature, a hegemony of its predecessor bigger
Ottoman, it was still trying to act with ambition for land snatching,
even if it would trample upon Kurdistan’s sovereignty.
Kurdistan, today home to over 45 million Kurds, is the largest
nation without a country, no thanks to Turkey with the help of its
supporters Great Britain and France, which continued its tyrannical
and dictatorial stranglehold on its own nearly 25 million Kurds, and
forcing their war of Liberation to continue in the past 85 years. The
other two major portions of Kurdistan are in Iraq with 5-7 million
Kurds, and Iran with over 15 million Kurds, and Syria with 2.5 million
Kurds, each causing the Kurds wars, genocides, executions, ethnic
cleansings, torture, imprisonments, and oppression. In short, this
war is mainly due to what Turkey initiated, and other parts followed
in a domino effect since around 1920. When Turkey, under the brutal
regime of Kemal Ataturk, who continued its campaigns of genocide
against Kurds and Armenians, killing over a million Kurds along with
their political leaders, as well as over 2 million Armenians.
This was the beginning of a prolonged war for liberation by Kurds,
Armenians, and Azeris. Armenia and Azerbaijan luckily obtained their
independence after the fall of another Empire, the USSR, after the
end of the Cold War in 1989, but Kurds remained captive. Therefore,
this war has many untold stories, but there is no question about
Turkey’s initial foul play when it interfered with the implementation
of the treaty of Serves by the League of Nations Independence treaty,
when the League did not safeguard the plan for Kurds, Armenians,
and Azeri nations within the fallen Empire due to Ataturk’s iron fist
colonialist military attacks, when the League abandoned its obligation
to the most ancient nation of Kurds with 12,000 years of civilization.
Although Armenia and Azerbaijan got their Independence in 1989 after
the fall of U.S.S.R., but Kurdistan, mainly outside of U.S.S.R.,
continues to remain without an officially recognized state to this
day. Particularly, the Independent South Kurdistan is yet to be
officially recognized as a UN member state even while we have Liberated
the Iraqi region after invasion, but it is totally unrealistic and
ludicrous to even think that the two nations of Kurds and Arabs in
Iraq since 1920s wrongfully drawn up map aimed to exploit Kurdish
natural resources in Kirkuk Kurdistan, and Basra oilfields in the
South, after 85 years of wars; suddenly restart another chapter of
wars to be left alone, and live in their own independent states
in peace and security. This intended piracy of the colonial past
has become the most vicious and malicious plot against the entire
nation of Kurds, which has so far left around 3.5 million innocent
Kurdish civilians killed in series of wars, and bombings, but most of
all Ethnic cleansing in the large provinces of Kirkuk Kurdistan and
Mosul against the Kurds in the artificial Iraq, and North Kurdistan
usurped by Turkey, as well as West Kurdistan usurped by Syria. Our
attempt at unification of the two totally diverse ethnic groups of
Ancient Kurds and the desert Arabs of South is utterly irresponsible
and insensitive. Some of our administration’s spokespersons immature
and nave statements of the Kurds themselves told me they don’t want
to be independent is unbelievably stupid and internationally criminal.
The Kurds have held half a dozen of Referendums and elections since
our invasion in 2003, and have signed declarations at the rate of 98%
of their entire Kurdish population, declaring that they want to live
in an Independent South Kurdistan as you’ll read in my book series
printed published articles. What we must focus on now; is to declare
and recognize an Independent South Kurdistan as quickly as possible
before it is later than the three years gone by, and before we cause
further tensions, and possible clashes between Kurds and Arabs in
Kirkuk, the inseparable part of Kurdistan. The unstable part of the
defunct Iraq in South is not and should not be imposed on the Kurds.
To establish security in the South should not be prerequisite to
Kurdish Independence in South Kurdistan, ready to be officially
recognized as a nation state in the past 15 years. All those wise
guy journalists trumpeting their statements about Kirkuk having other
minorities other than Kurds should really shut the hell up, because
it is obvious that they their own paid agendas to do their dirty work
for their masters, and the pushing of this anti-Kurd agenda has gone
on far enough. Our U.S. Administration should wake up and smell the
coffee, because they’re forcing the Kurds to fight for what belongs
to them and has been their homeland and their territory from time
immemorial. Finally, the Kurds have gone far beyond their line of
duties to help our Iraq Liberation.
They understand; that it would have taken longer to Liberate Kirkuk
and Mosul if it wasn’t for our invasion to remove the pathetic Saddam,
but there should not be any negotiations over the fact that Kurds want
their Independence, and there should not be any doubts about Kirkuk
Kurdistan’s inclusion within the Independent South Kurdistan. The
more we prolong this matter; the closer it may get to another war
within the already existing unfinished war to secure the South. We
have repeatedly admitted we are not there for oil. What we should do
then, we must get on with Liberating the Kurds, and securing an Arab
government for the South. We can’t have it both ways, and we won’t
succeed in our plan of unification as an exit strategy. Once we have
an official Independent South Kurdistan, then we may focus on the
remainder of the task, which appears to be the lack of security in
the Arab provinces. The Kurds have done their share. Isn’t it time we
let the Kurds be, and instead help their nation after 85 years of wars?
Book Review – "Independent South Kurdistan" by Steve Tataii
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress