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Kurds in Turkey
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Tuesday August 10, 2010 12:13 by Latif Serhildan serhildantakak at eircom dot net
Opression against the Kurds from Turkish state The oppressive fascist Turkish regime attempted to eliminate the Kurdish population more than decades now. One has to look at the brief history of the Kurds to know what Turkish state has tried to do with the Kurds. In 1921 at Kocgiri; 1925 at Sex Sait; 1930 at Agri and Zilan by killing more than fifty thousand people. In 1938, at Dersim an estimated seventy thousand children and elderly men and women were killed. Since 1984, more than forty thousand people have lost their lives due to the Kurdish conflict in Turkey. Kurds have not only been deprived of their basic rights and freedoms, The oppressive fascist Turkish regime attempted to eliminate the Kurdish population more than decades now. One has to look at the brief history of the Kurds to know what Turkish state has tried to do with the Kurds. In 1921 at Kocgiri; 1925 at Sex Sait; 1930 at Agri and Zilan by killing more than fifty thousand people. In 1938, at Dersim an estimated seventy thousand children and elderly men and women were killed. Since 1984, more than forty thousand people have lost their lives due to the Kurdish conflict in Turkey. Kurds have not only been deprived of their basic rights and freedoms, they have also been forced into poverty, to migrate to large cities and, the main fabric of their society has been destroyed systematically. However, in past two decades, the nature of antagonism towards the Kurds has taken a new form. Armed conflict started in 1984 between the Turkish government and the PKK. Six times unconditional ceasefires were declared by the PKK (Kurdistan Workers party) during the past eighteen years with hopes of finding a peaceful solution to the problems. Turkey’s Prime ministers, political parties in Turkey, and military’s denial and unwillingness to resolve the issue has escalated the conflict, leaving regions in poverty and deterioration . Since 1993, over four thousand Kurdish villages have been destroyed and more than seventeen thousand killings of innocent Kurds have been carried out by The Turkish Special Forces. Turkish premier once said the following “ The only good Kurd, is the death Kurd”. Following the March 29, 2010 municipal elections, fifteen hundred politicians, intellectuals, elected representatives, mayors and human rights activists have been jailed to date. As unacceptable as it is, hundreds of Kurdish children have been killed by The Turkish Security Forces since 1993 and today, about three thousand Kurdish children (aged 6 to 17) are in jail. Unjustifiably, these children are being treated as adults and charged with terrorism. Many of them have been sentenced to jail terms of up to twenty-five years for being at demonstrations with their families. Punishing juveniles with such heavy jail terms just for being at demonstrations is not acceptable in any civilized nation. |