Kurdish Aspect, CO
Feb 14 2009

Turkey’s Prime Minister Erdogan’s hypocrisy!

Kurdishaspect.com – By Minhaj Akreyi

Anywhere in the world it takes guts to stand up for humanity, for
truth, for the innocent people. It takes even more guts to stand for
all these against someone where there is a strong economical interest
and trade among themselves. And this daring act was taken by Turkey’s
Prime Minister Erdogan against its economical partner Israel’s
President, Shimon Peres at the World Economical Forum, Davos. Prime
Minister Erdogan yelled at the President Peres for the Gaza offense
against the Palestinians about a month ago, "President Peres, you are
old, and your voice is loud out of a guilty conscience, when it comes
to killing, you know very well how to kill. I know well how you hit
and kill children on beaches." You know, I would have saluted,
literally would have saluted this guy if he were not doing the same
thing with the Kurdish people in Turkey and in North-Kurdistan, or the
Turkish-occupied Kurdistan.

This is by a Turkish newspaper, Taraf, headquartered in Istanbul,
Turkey.

"In one stroke, he became the moral patron saint of the Arab world,"
said Mr. Candar, the columnist. But some Turkish columnists criticized
Mr. Erdogan for what they said was an implicit hypocrisy � raising
the issue of the Israeli killings of Palestinians while failing to
mention his own country’s abuses in the mostly Kurdish southeast
during years of war there.

"One would naturally ask Erdogan, who stands up against violence
imposed on people in Gaza, what he thinks about Kurds being killed in
his own country," wrote Ahmet Altan in the liberal Turkish daily
Taraf.

Through out Turkey’s history, and before, the Ottoman Empire’s, who
was ruled by the same Turkish people, they have committed the most
horrendous and heinous crimes against the Kurdish population. The
first documented Turkish genocide against the Kurdish nation goes back
to as far as 1514 by Yavuz Sultan Salim of the Ottoman Empire where he
murdered 40,000 Kurds in the city of Dersim. Between December 9,1606
until August 5, 1611, Ottoman’s Emperor Ahmet I murdered almost
100,000 Kurdish Kilzilbash Alevis. Once again in 1937, the Republic of
Turkey genocides more than 70,000 of the same Kurds who were brutally
massacred about five centuries earlier, in the city of Dersim (1). And
these three mentioned massacres and genocides are only the three out
of the many documented and undocumented. And never has the Turkish
government ever apologized for it, just like the Armenian genocide.

Coming back to the recent times, the Turkish government is as brutal
and ruthless as they were centuries ago:

– While the Kurdish people were celebrating their national holiday,
Newroz, in the cities of Wan, Hakkari, Siirt, which is in the
Turkish-occupied Kurdistan, the Turkish soldiers stormed the cities
and mercilessly beat anything that moved and was Kurdish. They got a
little boy younger than the age of 11, wrapped his mouth with a cloth,
and broke his arm from back to front (2). And please do not take my
word for it, watch the video yourself to believe, the link is
below. Or watch how two soldiers beat a very old man to dead. Or watch
how 7-8 soldiers beat group of women in the middle of street with
kicks and police baton. Or watch how few soldiers corner one man and
beat him (2). All this happened less than a year ago. While Turkey’s
Prime Minister Erdogan was in charge, never did he say a word about
that. Yet he screams at Israel’s president for killing the
Palestinians.

– The letter "W" is banned because that letter is found in the Kurdish
language, and not the Turkish (3).

– The way the Turkish government has and is "linguicide" the Kurdish
language(4).

– A Kurdish choir was in a tour in the United States, and allegedly,
the choir sang "provocative" song that is related to the Kurdish
freedom fighters, the PKK, whom Turkey has outlawed. The song they
sang is "Ey Reqib" and this song is a Kurdish national anthem which
has nothing to do with any political parties, but is related to being
a Kurd and any Kurd from anywhere in the world sings that. Nine of the
boys are in trials in Turkey for promoting "separatism" and are in
danger of being imprisoned for years.(5).

Not only against the Kurdish people has the Turkish government
committed crimes and genocide in 1915, the government of Turkey
genocide 1.5 million Armenian women, children, elders, men, and
everything else in between. Since then until now, the Turkey’s
government, including the so-called hero Prime Minister Erdogan has
been refusing to call it a Genocide whereas most of the world has
accepted it as genocide. Is this the man who is been regarded a hero?
Is this the man who is believed to be standing for the innocent
people? Really?

Not just that, It was only last year when Erdogan was welcoming Omar
al-Bashir, Sudan’s president to Istanbul who has been accused of
genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes in Darfur. If you,
the Prime Minister Ergodan, and you, the reader, disagree with
killings of the innocent people, than it should be of all grounds, and
not just certain groups.

So please, ladies and gentleman, human and innocent loving people,
reconsider your thoughts about Mr. Prime Minister Erdogan, and instead
we should protest him and his government’s acts and crimes against the
Kurds, along with Israel’s crimes against the Palestinian
people. Anyone siding with criminal, is a criminal as well; anyone
siding with a thief, is as guilty as the thief; and anyone siding with
a killer and a hypocrite like Turkey’s Prime Minister Erdogan, is as
hypocrite and guilty.

Source:

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From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress