Thirty people have died in Northern Kurdistan, occupied by Turkey, after Kurdish soldiers launched an attack on Turkish soldiers. Kurdish soldiers fired rocket launchers on an army post in Hakkari province of Kurdistan just after midnight. Turkish jets are pursuing the Kurdish soldiers and bombing their escape routes. http://venitism.blogspot.com
Turks and Kurds lock horns over Northern Kurdistan. Kurdistan will eventually become an independent nation. Kurdish people are definitely a nation deserving of a sovereign homeland out of the territories where Kurdish people form a majority. Currently, these territories lie in northern Iraq, northwestern Iran, southeastern Turkey and northeastern Syria. Twenty million Kurds live in Northern Kurdistan occupied by Turkey, ten million in Eastern Kurdistan occupied by Iran, seven million in Southern Kurdistan occupied by Iraq, and three million in Western Kurdistan occupied by Syria. The wish of forty million Kurds cannot be ignored by civil society. Support an independent Kurdistan now. Viva Kurdistan!
Two hundred Kurdish soldiers have been killed in a large-scale military offensive in the area in the last two weeks. The offensive close to Semdinli town in Hakkari province is ongoing and Turkish troops are taking steps to prevent Kurdish soldiers fleeing into Southern Kurdistan.
Partiya Karkeren Kurdistan (PKK), Kurdistan Workers' Party, has been fighting an armed struggle for an autonomous Kurdistan. Abdullah Ocalan, the heroic leader of Kurds, was betrayed by the government of Greece, and Ocalan was captured in Kenya in 1999, while being transferred from the Greek embassy to the airport of Nairobi, in a coordinated operation of the intelligence services of Turkey, USA, and Israel.
The offensive is one of the biggest in years, involving five thousand Turkish soldiers. The number of clashes between the Kurdish armed forces and the Turkish armed forces has risen in the occupied Northern Kurdistan over the past year.
Northern Kurdistan's area is a third of Turkey. The region forms the south-eastern edge of Anatolia. It is dominated by high peaks rising to over 3,700m and arid mountain plateaux, forming part of the arc of the Taurus Mountains. The occupation of Northern Kurdistan is opposed by all Kurds, and has resulted in a long-running separatist conflict in which fifty thousand lives have been lost.
Northern Kurdistan saw several major Kurdish rebellions. These were forcefully put down by the Turkish authorities and the region was declared a closed military area. The use of Kurdish language was outlawed, the words Kurds and Kurdistan were erased from dictionaries and history books, and the Kurds were only referred to as Mountain Turks! http://venitism.blogspot.com
As Syria's crisis deepens, Western Kurdistan occupied by Syria, is now liberated. Syrian Kurdish groups have formed a de facto state in the north of Syria. PKK, with its Syrian branch the Democratic Union Party (PYD), took control of several provinces near Turkey's border. Kurdish flags and posters of Ocalan fly from buildings in northern Syria towns.
Davutoglu threatens the new state of Western Kurdistan: We will not allow the
formation of a terrorist structuring near our border. We reserve every right. No
matter if it is al-Qaeda or PKK we would consider it a matter of national
security and take every measure.
Erdogan accuses Assad of allowing PKK a free hand in the north of Syria and warned Ankara would not hesitate to strike. Recent developments have come as an unpleasant surprise to Turcokleptocrats. When Syrian Kurds distanced themselves from the Assad regime, Turkey welcomed this development. But Ankara did not expect Syrian Kurds would soon unite around PKK.
Turkey has been fighting against the PKK since 1984, and the conflict has so far
claimed some fifty thousand lives. PKK has been effectively using its bases
in the mountainous region of northern Iraq. With its growing influence and
strength in Syria's Kurdish populated regions, PKK has now liberated Western Kurdistan.
The recent developments have sparked stronger demands by Turkish Kurds from
Ankara and further increased tension in Nortern Kurdistan, occupied by Turkey.
Turkish MP Baydemir points out the only way ahead is the creation of autonomous
Kurdistan regions in Turkey, Syria and Iran, just as the one in Iraq. Now
we got the new state of Western Kurdistan. There must be an abolition of borders
among the regions of Kurdistan, the creation of a customs union, and a new political
partnership with the occupying countries.
For years, Turkey's Kurds are deprived of their basic political and cultural
rights. As concerns grow in Turkey about the new state of Western Kurdistan, the
Turkish military has stepped up its deployment on the border. The president of Southern Kurdistan, Massud Barzani, cannot be hoodwinked by Erdogan. Turkey is trying to convince Barzani to betray his people! This is mission impossible. http://venitism.blogspot.com
