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Well put Makarios

How can we solve it? (keep it civilized)

Postby Piratis » Tue Feb 03, 2009 1:37 pm

Tim, you base your opinion on an unrepresentative sample of Kurds and based on what they told you in Turkey, where it is well known that many people are afraid to express their true opinion about this issue.

Here is what they say in the home page of the website you gave me earlier.

AKIN announcements, updates or commentaries are meant to cultivate YOU as a friend of the Kurds and Kurdistan. The partition of our land and people, concocted primarily by the European "great powers," sanctioned by the Treaty of Lausanne in 1923, and practiced since with the most callous disregard for even the basic human and language rights recognized in that treaty, remains one of the gravest political crimes of all times and continues to stain the history of modern Europe and the U.S.A. Imagine cutting a living human being limb from limb. As Kurdish children of this blighted and merciless past, we are fighting to restore justice to our ancestral land, free the largest enslaved people of our times, and build a Kurdistan on the foundation of human, civil, and national rights for all the diverse peoples within it. We need lovers of humanity to HELP. We hope you are one of those individuals. We would love to hear from you.


http://www.kurdistan.org/

You seem to be looking at the exceptions instead of the rule. Like the opinion of a jeweler in an inside page of some website, while ignoring the main argument in the home page of that same website.

Nobody doubts that some Kurds do not want an independent Kurdistan. Also nobody doubts that many other Kurds are willing to compromise their rights and accept much less than an independent Kurdistand, not because they don't want it, but because they do not believe such thing is feasible. And yet other Kurds do not express their true opinion on this issue because the Turkish state can be very harsh toward people who are known to support an independent Kurdistan.

I believe that all the evidence show that the majority (not all) of the Kurds do want an independent Kurdistan.
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Postby Get Real! » Tue Feb 03, 2009 1:44 pm

So nice of "T" to have provided people with a thread to discuss Kurdistan... :) Another map…

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