We, Kurdish youth, keeps on living in the hottest point of the conflict.Untill now, many people, organization or politician have commented on the issue. Some remarked us as terrorists, while some others revolutionist or liberalistic.But the important point is; who knows enough about the issue. We live here by the time coflict started and after.So, do you think we have the right to talk about or not?
Kurds, only talking about their near history in Turkey, are living as a colony in the hardest life conditions.. None of their simplest rights were accepted by Turkish Republic after its foundation in 1923. Of course, this was not only their fate. All of the other societies; likewise Armenians, Suryani-Christians, Cyprians were directly affected by the hostile attitude of Turkish ideology, which is called as "Kemalism", that was named by its founder.It should be mentioned that, this ideology of Turks never brought happiness to the societies in Turkey. There were lots of genocides on this societies. Similarly, Kurds were victims of Kemalist ideology, too.
In Turkey, it is forbidden to speak, be educated in Kurdish. Use of Kurdish is a component of crime in all governmental buildings, like hospitals, schools etc..No one can establish a Kurdish tv, radio or newspaper in Turkey.Even to name children in Kurdish is not allowed by the Turkish Constitution. Clearly, the Turkish government and army insists to assimilate Kurds and force us to forget our ethnic origin and culture. It was defined by the Turkish Republic simply, with the slogan of "Turkey Belongs to Turks". So if you are not a Turk or accept to be,this means that you don’t have the opportunity and the right to live in.
During the history, lots of Kurdish intellectuals and the resistant society tried to stay aginst this cruel assimilation policy.In all democratic efforts which only legal avenues used, they were punished heavily by the Turkish sovereigns.Many of their pioneers were impisoned or killed, mostly after regular coup d’etats.
When the Kurdish society realized that use of legal democratic bodies brings no profit, they started to fight for freedom like, most of the Europeans did during the Ottoman Empire.However 20 of biggest Kurdish revolts for freedom only in the last 75 years, were extinguished by Turkish Army and its imperialist supporters with the use of bloodiest methods. Milions of Kurds were killed and unfortunately, so-called civilized world stayed in silence against all this massacre.Nowadays, Kurds are again struggling for their rights. Because there is no other chance left us to achieve our goals.
The Turkish army and government which calls Kurds and their freedom movement PKK as terrorist, used all kinds of degrading treatments against our society in 14 years dirty war.Torture,executions,dissapearances,think and death penalties, are ordinary incidents in the daily life of a Kurd.
More than 4000 villages of innocent Kurdish patriots were burned by Turkish army in order to the allegations of supporting PKK, without any evidence. As a result of this, almost 4.000.000 people were forced to flow away their homes and obliged to live as IDP’s(Internally Displaced People) in the western province of the country.But, it was not over, this time they faced pressure and violence from the extreme Turkish nationalists and police.
More than 3500 patriot Kurd intellectuals, such as writers,journalists,doctors and teachers were killed by the secret force of army called Turkish Gladio (JITEM) that includes the rascists and fascists.
It was stated by the Turkish government that almost 30.000 people died because of the conflict. Again according to the official numbers, nearly 20.000 of them are Kurdish guerillas and as it was mentioned before, 3000-4000 of the remain list are the Kurds who were killed brutally by Turkish Gladio.
Today,Turkish government tries to convince all the world that we’re terorists with various methods.They use the prosperous amount of money which comes from the dirty war, and the support of their Imperialist colleques. Moreover, they can easily threaten all the resisiting individuals, organizations, even countries with the wars(Syria) or boycotts(Italy).
But on the contrary,several times cease-fires were declared by the PKK to stop war and find a peaceful politic solution for the problem. But as you cen estimate, neither the problem itself nor the Kurds in Turkey is not acceptable for the Turkish government.They denied our society and its existence for the last 3000 years and still maintaining this incomprehensible manner.
We, kurdish youth, call all the democratic bodies for awareness and sensitiv'ity and International Solidarity concerning use of severe violence by Turkish government against our society. We warn everybody that if there will not be a society called as Kurds because of Turkish Governments Genocides in the future, this would be the shame of all humanity ?
We also ask everybody to read more and more. and to seek for the true answers of these questios below, to be able to understand the process of ongoing war in KURDISTAN. What is the history of Kurds?
What are the aims of PKK ?
Who violates Human Rights?
Who have killed 30.000 people ; the PKK or Turkish Army ?
Who is the oppressor ? and,
Who is the real terrorist??
It should be known that we’re ready for peace for our rights.But if the war would be insisted by the sovereigns we’re ready for that, too.
The Imperialiasts and colonialists will be defeated.