Aso, Kirkuk, Iraq
Iraqi Patriotic Union of Kurdistan
Jan 28 2008

Iraqi Kurd article discusses Turk historian’s thesis on origins of
Armenians

by Stran Abdallah
"The plight of Turkey"

The plight of Turkey is created by its historians. In the past, the
historians instilled the idea of purifying the Turkish language from
foreign words, particularly Arabic words, into [founder of Turkish
state] Kemal Ataturk.

They were busy with this issue when others [historians] said that the
world originated from the Turkish nation. So, Turkish is the language
of the entire world as long as the world originated from the Turks.
Then, why purify the Turkish language from the words of those other
languages that are themselves Turkish? Hence, a lie protected Turkey
from another more lie!

Now, another historian emerged who says that most of the Kurds are
originally ethnic Armenians and have turned themselves into Kurds,
otherwise, the Kurds numbered very few. This looks like the Ba’thist
propaganda of "nationality rectification", namely those people were
formerly turned into Kurds and they can now rectify their
nationality. In what era were the Kurds in Iraq and Turkey so
powerful [to prompt] other people to enlist themselves as Kurds.

What blessing and prosperity the Armenian enjoyed after they turned
into Kurds! If the Armenians had no choice but to change their
nationality, why did not they become dominant Muslim Turks, instead
of becoming a poor oppressed Kurd? If they are doomed to be
mass-killed, what difference can Kurdish or Armenian nationality
make?

This historian wants, as does real historians, to use "facts", but
the "fact" here has to do with cheating [deception]: go and examine
the PKK [Kurdistan Workers’ Party] guerrillas, you will find that
they have not been circumcised, because they are ethnic Armenians and
Christians do not practice circumcision!

Look what a plight do historians try to afflict on Turkey? [Turkish
Premier Recep Tayyip] Erdogan is now working on declaring an amnesty
for the guerrillas so that they leave the mountains. But the thesis
the historian presents is a big problem: for you need to be checked,
as you come down the mountains, whether you have been circumcised or
stayed as an Armenian!

Thus, in Turkey, if men stay in mountains, they may kill or get
killed in an encounter, or they may be captured and their head blown
off. And if they want to come down the mountains and respond to the
amnesty, a historian will stand by at the bottom of the valley to
examine them and may cut off flesh from them!

[Translated from Kurdish]