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The open letter to the President of the United States America
DIJON
le 01-04 -2008
Sir
President George William Bush
The White House
1600 Pennsylania Avenue NW
Washington DC 20500
Dear President George William Bush,
On behalf of myself, the Kurdistan
PEN the Kurdish people, the Kurdish intellectuals
and writers of North Kurdistan, professor of the philosophy of science[1]
, I greet you with my fellow and
Kurdish organisations allied with us, I send you greetings and respect and
express some fears regarding a dark future for your policies in the North
Kurdistan.
Thank
you celebrate the Day of Newruz ed in a universal sense in mentioning the
people of Kurdistan, but your military ally Turkey and its army which
persecutes this event for universal peace among people around the world. We
believe that the nation of Kurdistan does not deserve this terrible
genocide. Thank you so much Mr. President of the USA America we congratulate
you because of your historic speech.
«
New Year Calendar I send greetings to those celebrating Nowruz. For
the millions of people who trace their heritage to Iran, Iraq, Afghanistan,
Turkey[2],
Pakistan, India, and Central Asia, Nowruz is a time to celebrate the New
Year with the arrival of spring. This cherished and ancient festival brings
together family and friends to reflect on what has come before and celebrate
a season of new beginnings.
Our
country is proud to be a land where individuals from many different cultures
can pass their traditions on to future generations. The diversity of America
brings joy to our citizens and strengthens our Nation during Nowruz and
throughout the year.
Laura
and I send our best wishes to all those celebrating Nowruz, both here in the
United States and abroad. May the year ahead be filled with peace and many
blessings[3].»
The
president of South Kurdistan Mr. Masoud Barzani[4]
has celebrated the Feast of Newroz to Zaxo and he condemned the policy of
the Syrian regime that the same policy apllique the Turkish colonial regime.
There
are two Mr Sarkozy day before the British Parliament said «in these
walls, in your walls, the modern political life was born. Without your
Parliament, Parliamentary democracy did not exist in this form in the world.
And through the Parliamentary
Practice born in those places, you have imposed as a parliamentary democracy
The best guarantee against tyranny.
The history of your institution, your influence Parliament today most
of our Contemporary political
regimes. The affirmation of Parliament has been serving the
Protection of individual liberties is a lesson that you, the British,
you provided World. This
Parliament, yours was the first in the world to obtain the results of
democracy Parliamentary who you are and that you represent the
cornerstone of all our democracies. This
is where parliamentarians have gradually invented what a party, a
platform and Finally a majority.[5]»
But President
Sarkozy has forgotten it was France and England which divided Kurdistan in
1916, the truth is that the misfortune of Kurdistan between the superpowers
began formally this period. That is why this day
on March 29, which is the time for hanging our President
State of the Republic of Mehabad Kurdistan including the Minister of
Defense was the Great General Molla Mustafa Barzani. Our president is
hung avce the complicity of the Bolsheviks and
by England.
We writers of Kurdistan, members of the French section PEN KURD in
France we ask for your intervention with the Turkish authorities and
Syrian, Iranian to ensure that our Kurdish people can celebrate its
National Day on Newroz. 2008. We ask you Mr. President your intervention
with the authorities of Turkey and Syria and Iran
in accordance with the Constitution of the USA and the UN Charter and
the Universal Declaration of Human Rights that the right to
self-determination of the nation of Kurdistan is respected under
international law. In the history of mankind, intervention by the United
States in alliance with the anti-Hitler coalition in the USSR
in the fight against fascism and German destruction of the regime of
Saddam Hussein fasciste is identical and has a role ' historical. It is a
victory for the USA, and for we writers of Kurdistan use of military
potentiel USA and the UK in the fight against fasciste and colonialiste
regime of Saddam is the fundament the Kurdo-American alliance in the
particularity of the process Revolution of Kurdistan.
In
your speech dated March 19 you said Dear
President G W Bush «Today,
in light of the challenges we have faced in Iraq, some look back and call
this period the easy part of the war. Yet there was nothing easy about it.
The liberation of Iraq took incredible skill and amazing courage. And the
speed, precision and brilliant execution of the campaign will be studied by
military historians for years to come.
What
our troops found in Iraq following Saddam's removal was horrifying. They
uncovered children's prisons, and torture chambers, and rape rooms where
Iraqi women were violated in front of their families. They found videos
showing regime thugs mutilating Iraqis deemed disloyal to Saddam. And across
the Iraqi countryside they uncovered mass graves of thousands executed by
the regime.
Because
we acted, Saddam Hussein no longer fills fields with the remains of innocent
men, women and children. Because we acted, Saddam's torture chambers and
rape rooms and children's prisons have been closed for good. Because we
acted, Saddam's regime is no longer invading its neighbors or attacking them
with chemical weapons and ballistic missiles. Because we acted, Saddam's
regime is no longer paying the families of suicide bombers in the Holy Land.
Because we acted, Saddam's regime is no longer shooting at American and
British aircraft patrolling the no-fly zones and defying the will of the
United Nations. Because we acted, the world is better and United States of
America is safer;»
I
fully agree, but this approach is valid for T Erdogan Abdullah Gul in Turkey
for Ahmedn, edjat For Iran and Bashar al-Assad in Syria, contrary to your
statement I think that the founding of an independent state of Kurdistan
is not a detriment of the People
Kurdish,,really no doubt the establishment of the State Independent
Kurdistan is a total liberation for 40-45 million of the nation of
Kurdistan. I congratulate you on my human
conscienne.
Dear President George
W.Bush,
The respect of Human Rights plays an important role and is
interesting more and more people in modern societies. In the international
sphere, the fact that Human Rights and democratic principles define the
International Relations is a concept accepted by every society appearing as
civilized.
The international organizations are the arena of the discussions
about the breach of the Human Rights which mostly are topical. Turkey , due
especially to its illtreatment against kurdish people is often with other
countries on the top of the list of the violation of Human Rights.
Member of the United Nations, the NATO and the European Council,
associated to the European Union, Turkey is less a democracy respecting the
expression differences as it is a real european state. That's the reason for
which the fight for democracy of kurdish people seems to be an impossible
mission. After seventy years of persecution, after all these massacres,
deportations, summary death proceedings, tortures and forbiddings , after
the horrible consequences of the "special war" lead for more than
ten years in Kurdistan, an improvment of turkish mentality during the very
next years seems to be more and more impossible. In a such repressive
turkish context, a nation needs courage to require its elementary rights.
The fact that a few assimilated Kurds have some of the highest places
in the bureaucracy ,- these Kurds who have given up their national identity
as they are used to show pro-turkish nationalist ideas , more cruel then
their masters- doesn't deny that regle. Though Ankara's officials claim that
" any distinction between Turks and Kurds exist and that they have the
same rights" seven members of Turkish Parlement, belonging to the
Social Populist Party (SHP)were fired as they had attended a conference in
Paris in 1989 about Kurdistan. In the whole history, there were 28 uprisings
against central authorities and these revolts have been hushed up in blood.
The Movement for Liberation National of the Kurdistan.
During your meeting with Recep Tayip Erdogan on 5th November you
announced that the PKK was the joint enemy of the USA and Turkey. On 8th
January you repeated these words during your meeting with President Abdullah
Gul. We
writers of Kurdistan we have no confidence in the political ed your country
for two raison. USA sold chemical weapons in Iran and Iraq, the CIA and the
Shah of Iran have left our people in the hands criminals Saddam in 1975 and
1991In other words, it seems very logical to use the military potential of
amaricains and British against the Saddam regime ed for democracy, but our
ideal is to establish the independent state of Kurdistan we do not want to
be co; loon other states Turkey, Iran and Syria including the USA.
We surprised Sir President George
W.Bush your offensive
Call Dana Perino Peter MacMahon. This person has no scientific
knowledge about Kurdistan, it seems to me as a
person
illiterate, despite a communication master How why she said that the PKK is
danger to the USA? You can see that we are a nation of 45 million. This
party has never pursued a strategy of armed struggle against the USA. It was
NATO and the USA who helped the Turkish style and our to day
is subjected to genocide? The question that arises is what your
spokesman Dana Periono[6]
is for the genocide of the people of Kurdistan?
What
is your response to Mr. President that Kurdish children Cuneyt
tortured and bass broken by Turkish police? If it were your son or
son of Dana Perino me what was your reaction, it is a member of the PKK? If
not, why these crimes geurre? Crimes against Humanity why your government
has not condemned these crimes colonialist Turkish state?
In
truth I am not a member of the PKK, but there is a scientific and
sociological reality, I am a philosopher born in the region of North
Kurdistan in Dersim, on the order of Mustafa Kemal in 1937, 250 families in
the side of my Mother Meleka Hemede Silemani tribe of
Demenu twere killed and burnt with the gas and 52 children were shot
and three people in my family were hanged and is a scientific and academic
responsibility to write to you in behalf of the writers of my country in the
name of my people.The
PKK is a political party with the most popular support in Kurdistan and
everywhere where Kurdish people live. The PKK is a people's movement and at
the forefront in the Kurdish struggle for freedom. By declaring the Kurdish
struggle for freedom 'terrorist' you are not only insulting the Kurds but
you are also putting them in opposition. The consequence of this is not only
the negative effect it has on the USA's already tarnished reputation in the
Middle East, but it is also in conflict with US interests. By adopting this
stance, you are becoming the collaborators of Turkey's policies of
assimilation and annihilation which are implemented through the most
inhumane of methods such as torture, forced migration and genocide.
The
Kurds are not and do not want to be enemies with the USA. The Kurds, just
like any other people, want to live freely in their country. The PKK is the
defender of these rights.
Also,
we simply cannot understand on what foundations you are basing your claims.
The PKK, in its thirty year struggle, has never targeted a single American
citizen or American interests. On 17th November, your assistant to the
Foreign Secretary Matthew Bryza, in a statement made to the Turkish Press,
acknowledged that 'the PKK had not attacked a single American, and declaring
the PKK an enemy would only put us at risk'.
You,
as good as anyone else, must know that the Kurdish problem is a historical
problem awaiting a solution; you know that it is not merely a terrorism or
security problem, you know that it is a struggle of a people that have not
even been given the most basic of rights and it is a struggle for very
existence. I would also like to remind you that your current position only
condones the gridlock seeking militarist approach of the Turkish State which
can only mean further loss of life..
Over
the past week our people in Kurdistan North participations with millions of
citizens with the deputy of the Party of the Company democratie__DTP
celebrated the Feast But today but; the Turkish security forces have
attacked the civilian population, hundreds of Kurds are hospital; women and
children, the elderly are beaten. We believe that we Kurds we have the right
to freedom of expression entitled to the right to life communication on our
homeland occupied and colonized by your driveway State of the Republic of
Turkey. In the cities of Van, Siirt, Hakkari, Urfa; Dersim, Semsur; Batman,
Diyarbakir demonstrators were subjected to attack Turkish military forces.
The Turkish military forces have fired on the population. Fatma Kurtulan;
deputy . The Turkish military forces have attacked the people, and have
prevented battered women and Children. The
is state terrorism against the Kurdish people.
President
of the European Parliament POTTERING, the European Commission and the
Belgian government sent their congratulations to the Kurdish organisations
for celebration of the Kurdish New Year Newroz.. EU congratulated the
Kurdish Newroz[7]
Representatives
of the European Parliament, the European Commission and the Belgian
government sent their congratulations to the Kurdish organisations during
the celebration of the Kurdish New Year Newroz in Brussels yesterday.
Photo:
EU Parliament Service
Among
the EU representatives who sent their congratulations were: the President of
the European Parliament Hans-Gert POTTERING, the President of the Walloon
Parliament Jose HAPPART, the Vice-President of the European Parliament Luisa
MORGANTINI, the Members of the European Parliament Alain HUTCHINSIN, Jean
LAMBERT and Van Hecke JOHAN, the Vice-President of the European Commission
Franco FRATTINI, the Federal Minister of the Foreign Affaires Karel de
GUCHT, the Flemish Minister of the Public Affaires Pascal SMET, the Belgian
Senators Elke TINDENMANS and Sabine de BETHUNE, the federal deputy and
president of the City Council of Hasselt Hilde VAUTMANS.
The
Kurdish New Year Day is called Newroz, which means a new day. It coincides
with the beginning of the spring – 21st March, and its celebration marks
the affirmation of the Kurdish national identity and freedom. Newroz has
been forbidden in Turkey until the beginning of 1990s when the president
Turgut Ozal, who was with half Kurdish origin, declared this day as
“Turkish holiday called Nevruz”. The Turks accepted Newroz as Turkish
“Nevruz” after that more then hundred civilians have been killed during
the Newroz celebration in 1992.
On
21st and 22nd March 2008 several hundred thousand Kurds celebrated Newroz in
many Kurdish cities, but also in Turkish cities as Istanbul, Izmir, Adana
and Mersin. Several hundred people have been arrested during the
celebrations; many ten of them have been injured by the security forces in
Van, Siirt and Hakkari. One Kurd has been reported to killed.
On Newroz day Kurds in the
cities of the Northern Kurdistan and Turkey gathered in the squares for the
celebration of Newroz. It was cleberated in most of the Kurdish towns and
cities and Kurdish populated Turkish cities. The most brilliant Newroz
undoubtly was in Amed. In Amed, hundred thousands of people gathered and
they cried for “Autonomous Democratic Kurdistan’, amnesty for DPT [8]
and political prisoners and a democratic political solution for Kurdish
issue. The second greatest Newroz celebration is going to be held on Sunday
in Istanbul which has a large amount of Kurdish population.” [9]
«
Dozens were injured and 300 detained Saturday as police used truncheons and
tear gas to break up violent Kurdish protests in several Kurdish and Turkish
cities, police and media reports said.[10]
Three
officials from the Kurdish Democratic Society Party (DTP) were among those
detained on charges of provoking the unrest.
In
the town of Van intervention by the Turkish military has caused death 3
injured 3 ,arrestations 1000 Kurds.
During the celebration of the fete a young 20 years was wounded by a bullet
to his chest; has died and 20 people were placed in custody. The three
wounded Akbaþ Selim, Raif Ýren ve Savaþ Babalýtaþ were transferred to
the hospital in Van and the governor refused permission to celebrate the
festival of Newroz
30000
people have blocked the highway between Hakkâri and the city of Van
The body of Zeki Erinç was buried in Van with the participation of 30000
Kurdes.A Gewer military forces have buried a militant Kurdish without asking
the opinion of this decision famille.Contre of 60,000 Turkish military Kurds
have demonstrated against this practice and Kurdish people took the body of
the victim was buried with the presence of deputies of the Party of
Democratic Society.
These demonstrations in Dersime
by participations 10000
personns in the presence of deputy Serafettin Halis in
Cemslig to 15000 people in the presence of deputy
Yurtsever; to Colemerig presence in the deputy Mr hamid Geylani
with 20000 people in Siirt
10.000; Akin Birdal and Osman
Ozcelik; in Patnos 10000 by
Pervin Buldan in Mus 30.000; in Ceylanpinari 15.000
31%of Kurdistan land remained under water dams and because of this situation
9000000 Kurds have left the Kurdistan to the metropoles as Istanbul. More
because of the war more than six million Kurds have left Kurdistan. It is a
policy of humanisations of Kurdistan. For this reason, in the city of
Istanbul over 300,000 took part in the Fete de Newroz and the picture
justifies this reality.
300.000
Kurdes in Manifestion Istanbul
'
It
is a crime planned and committed by the State Turkish and a
massacre of a civilian population who wanted to peacefully celebrate
a festival millennium. But the Islamic government of the AKP and the Turkish
Army NATO member has committed crimes guerre. The is
these of the massacres
committed and Izzet Belge
member of the Central Committee of the DPT stated that "if the governor
had allowed for the celebration Day there will not be evenments. We are
facing attractions. Without warning the security forces we have
the victims there are deputies and politicians; women; children and
the elderly. We must punish the post of gouverneur and diretor of national
security. First Minister and Minister of the Interior must resign from their
positions. Because the governor has committed a crime planned.
In
the City of Izmir, Turkey metropole of Izmir where the Kurdish people were
deported by the regime faciste Turkish 30000 demonstrators have lived
moments of the terrible savagery of Turkey. Image decrès desr justify the
persecution of the Kurdish people was the objet.
The Turkish state terrorism poses to the State of the Republic of Turkey colonialist
who forced deportation and massacres exile unacceptable.
Manifestation
in Izmir
and
1000000 Kurds in Amed _ Diyarbakir-Major Baydemir
In
the city of Amed (Diyarbakir) Capital Kurdistan North over one million
(1000000) have célebred the
Day of Nrwruz and the Kurdish
mayor of the capital of Kurdistan Osman Aydemir greet the Kurdish people in
joy claimed the democratic national rights of the People of Kurdistan North,
which are conforming to the International Law under the United Nations
declaration of 1960 which provides for the right to grant the colonial
peoples. Because Kurdistan is a colony international divided; shared between
colonialist states of Turkey, from Iran and the Iraq and Syrie
The
young Kurdish Ikbal Yasar who killed by the Turkish forces secrité first
was buried by the security forces contrary to the tradition and customs
Kurds. This situation has put the people angry Kurdish Yukseova of which
60,000 Kurds have manfesté and took the body of the martyr and buried with
tradition and Kurdish on this topic Kurdish deputy to the Turkish Parliament
Mr Hamid Geylani made a speech
at Yukseova where the security forces have attacked the civilian population
eont broke the doors of houses and injured were removed from hospitals and
tortured
Millions
of people attended the Newroz Celebrating in Kurdistan this year. Kurds
gathered to celebrate the Kurdish new year, which is traditionally
celebrated on the 21st of March. The celebrations continued not just in all
four parts of Kurdistan , but also in many cities across Europe
, as well as other countries where there is a significant Kurdish
population. Women and men dressed in traditional Kurdish clothing, chanting
anti-war slogans and calling for a peaceful solution to the Kurdish
question.
In
Turkey Beþir Atalay, Internal Affairs Minister of Turkey held a meeting
with the DTP ( Democratic Society Party) management. Here he assured the
management that problems would not arise at this years Newroz Celebrations.
Despite this there was a lot of bloodshed in several cities. According to
the DTP and Human Rights Organisations, the attacks organised by the state
system.
Newroz celebrations were banned in many cities , with no valid explanation
of the bans given. There were major conflicts, particularly in Van , Siirt
and Hakkari. There was a lot of damage and destruction caused in these cites
as a result of police force and intervention. In Van , the video images
showing police violently attacking women were particularly disturbing. Ikbal
Yasar (20 years old ) was killed by Turkish police in Yuksekova District of
Hakkari. Zeki Erinc (35 years old) was also killed by Turkish police in Van.
Hundreds of people were left injured , the majority from gunshot wounds. 800
people have been arrested until now , and police operations continue. Those
who were arrested were beaten and subjected to various torture methods.
The
public celebrated the Festival of Newroz
peacefully in the cities where the police did not interfere. The Turkish
State continued to deny the Kurdish existence by placing bans on the Kurdish
New Year celebrations. The Baath dictatorship in Syria ,
and Iran the AKP government in
Turkey are responsible for the conflicts and killings at the Newroz
celebrations.
In
this respect, we condemn the violent actions of the Syrian and Turkish
governments , and once again emphasise the need for peaceful solutions
through dialogue not force. We call on democratic bodies for international
action in solidarity with the Kurdish people in their struggle for
democratic rights and freedom
The
former US President, Bill Clinton met with the president of Kurdistan
National Assembly of Syria and AKFL Chairman Mr. Sherkoh Abbas in Bowling
Green, Ohio to discuss the issue Kurdish issues and the Turkish incursion
into Kurdistan.
On
February 24, 2008 in Bowling Green, Ohio the president of the Kurdistan
National Assembly of Syria and the Chairman of America-Kurdistan Friendship
League met with President Bill Clinton and asked him to intervene and to
find a peaceful resolution to the conflict by encouraging dialogue among
Turkey, and KRG. Furthermore, he asked President Clinton to help in the
establishment of American Bases in Kurdistan to protect the Kurds from Iran,
Syria, and Turkey. President Clinton said that Senator Clinton has a
plan for establish temporary base in Kurdistan to protect the Kurds and
Turkish PM expresses to him that they do not oppose such plans. Also, he
mentioned that Kurds of Iran, Iraq, and Syria are important allies for the
US in the region.
NEWRUZ
IN WESTERN KURDISTAN(Syria)
Kurdistan
President Slams Syrian Regime For Killing Three Kurds
The
President of Southern Kurdistan, Massoud Barzani, has condemned an incident
in which Syrian security forces killed three Kurds. The incident took place
in Qamishli in Syrian-occupied Kurdistan on Thursday night when a group of
Kurdish youths were celebrating Newroz.
Qamishli
is the capital of the Western Kurdistan
region in Syria. "An argument between the demonstrators and Syrian
police in the Kurdish city of Qamishli developed into a shooting on Thursday
evening," the London-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said in
a statement.
"We strongly condemn the killing of the innocent people in Qameshli.
These people were just celebrating the beginning of their new year and had
committed no crime," Barzani said Sunday in a statement, cited by AFP.
The Kurdish leader called for an investigation on the deadly incident,
urging Syrian President Bashar Assad to "punish the perpetrators of the
crime."
The
Syrian army has moved some 10,000 soldiers into five cities in the country's
northern, Kurdish-dominated region, following violence over the weekend,
which left three people dead. The killing occurred during celebration of the
Kurdish New Year - Newroz - in the city Qameshli close to the border with
Turkey, according to several local news sources.
Some 10 percent of the Syrian population is Kurdish but, despite this, they
lack any political influence and the Kurdish language and flag are both
banned. Following a population census in 1962, the Syrian government
stripped some 20% of the Kurds of their citizenship in an effort to Arabize
the population, claiming that many of the local Kurds had infiltrated the
country from neighboring Turkey and Iraq.
The effect of the census left the Kurds, who had lost their citizenship,
stateless, despite the fact that many of them fulfilled the demands set out
by the Syrian government such as being born in Syria. Residing in Syria also
meant many lacked the possibility of gaining citizenship in another country.
The Arabization policy was part of a larger movement that swept the Middle
East during the 1960s and '70s that promoted regional cooperation based on a
common cultural heritage.
We
know that Dear President G W
BUSH , The United
States condemns the attack on the Kurdish Syrian population by Syrian
security forces that left three civilians dead and others severely injured
in the northeastern city of Qamishli following the March 20 Nowruz
celebrations. We call upon the Syrian government to refrain from using
violent measures to repress Kurdish civilians and to open a full,
independent investigation of the incident.
-
A Syrian[11]
court has sentenced four Kurds to prison terms of up to 10 years on charges
of seeking to annex parts of the country to a separate state, a human rights
group said on Monday."Hamid Suleiman Mohammed and Adnan Muwaymesh were
jailed for 10 years and Ibrahim Haj Yussef and Ahmed Hassan Habash for
seven," the National Organisation for Human Rights in Syria said in a
statement.[12]
The
state security court convicted the four of "seeking through their
actions, plans or writings to break away areas of Syrian territory so that
they can be annexed to an independent state."The four were arrested in
March 2006 after taking part in a demonstration in the town of Afrin, north
of Syria's second city of Aleppo, on the eve of celebrations for the Kurdish
new year holiday of Newroz.They were originally accused of attacking a
security force patrol in the town, which lies in the heavily Kurdish region
of Kurd Dagh, the rights group said.The state security court also sentenced
two suspected Sunni Islamists to two-year jail terms for "inciting
communal and ethnic tensions."
For
Dr Cewad Mella,President of the Parliament of Kurdistan Western
in exile on March 20,
2008, the day of Newroz, Assad's Dictator Regime killed three and injured
and arrested many Syrian Kurds in Qamishli[13]
without any warning, the police opened fire at the peacefully celebrating
crowd. Although there had been women and children among them the shots were
fired arbitrarily in the Kurdish city Qamishli in Syrian-occupied-Kurdistan
(we received short film shows the way of killing the Kurds). While the world
is paying attention to what is happening in Tibet, the Syrian Regime is
killing innocent civilians.. The Kurds have responded with protests in
various areas of Western Kurdistan, which has led to further increase of
security and moving thousands of military forces to Aleppo, Qamishli,
Hasakah, Kobani and Efrin.We at the Western Kurdistan Government condemn the
violence and the new massacre of Syrian regime on the people in Western
Kurdistan and demand the immediate withdrawal of all Syrian forces from
Western Kurdistan. We demand a full investigating from the UN, the EU and
the USA.We are wondering; why the world supports human rights in Tibet when
at the same time a fascist regime as Syria has a free hand on killing
Kurds!! HumanRights are universal: What is good for Tibet is also good for
Kurdistan.We expect from the United Sates, European Union, and the rest of
the free world to remove the Syrian regime from power, the second Baath
regime, to takeserious measures in democratizing the country so the both
main nationalities in Syria, Arabs and Kurds, could enjoy freedom and
equality with two federal governments for the Arabs and for the Kurds. At
the same time we would like to encourage the Kurdish people in Syria to
doeverything in their capacity to obtain their natural right of self
determination and to ask for referendum as the peoples of Kosovo and
Montenegro.[14] Assad's Dictator Regime killed three Kurds in Qamishli
.
The
Syrian authorities have arrested in recent days five Kurds, which the writer
Ahmad Mohammad Moustapha, said Monday the Committees for the Defence
of Democratic Freedoms and Human Rights in Syria.
"The security services in Aleppo (north) arrested Saturday
Moustapha writer Ahmad Mohammad, alias Pir Roustem and confiscated
his laptop, books and personal papers," asserted the committee in a
statement.[15]
In addition, the security services in Damascus Thursday arrested four
Kurds, brothers working in a sewing workshop, "said the press release.
"The arrests of Jomaa, Ahmad, Mohammad Amin and Abdel Aziz
Hamdo, because they are probably sewed costumes Kurdish folk," the
statement added.
The committees' denounce arbitrary arrests of Kurds who have merely
exercised their freedom of expression guaranteed in the Syrian Constitution,
"and asked the Syrian government to" release them immediately.
" They expressed their "deep concern at the omnipresence of
security services in public life in Syria," added the press release.
Three Kurds were killed Thursday evening in Qamichli in north-eastern Syria,
during clashes between Kurdish demonstrators and the Police Federation, said
Friday a leader of the Kurdish Party Yakiti Syria.
"The Syrian police opened fire Thursday night on the Kurds who
celebrated Nowrouz (Kurdish New Year) in the light of candles and singing,
killing three and wounding four others" among the Kurds, told AFP that
manager who requested anonymity.
The head of the banned Kurdish party, which is Qamichli (680 km northeast of
Damascus), was contacted by telephone. He noted that the funeral of the
three persons had already taken place, in a calm, adding that mourning was
declared in the community and that the ceremonies for the new year had been
suspended. Syrian The Observatory for Human Rights (based in London) said
for its part in a statement that "a group of young Kurds celebrated
Nowrouz (...) when the dispute escalated between demonstrators and Police
who fired, killing three and wounding five others. " The announcement,
which identified the victims, called the president (Syrian) Bashar Assad to
intervene quickly to stop this kind of killing in cold blood against
defenceless son of the Syrian people, in order to avoid a massacre even more
important than Qamichli. He also called for bringing to justice those
members of the security forces responsible for the "killing". [16]In
March 2004, clashes between Kurds to the security forces or to Arab tribes
had broken out Qamichli, before spreading to the neighbouring regions. These
clashes were 40 deaths in six days, according to Kurdish sources and 25
according to an official.
A
procession of Kurds, headed by the leaders of the Kurdish movement in Syria,
was headed Friday morning to the al-Hilalya cemetery for the funeral of the
victims, according to the leader of Yakiti. The representative in Damascus
of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK), Abdel Razzaq Taoufic, told AFP
that such incidents were "caused by young people to create disturbances
before the Arab summit" scheduled from 29 to 30 March in Damascus.
According to him, there were four deaths.
Finaly
for interpretation the Club of Pen
Basque “The Kurdes in Syria
celebrate the fourth
anniversary of the uprisinh og Qamishli its own “ intidada” Sunday
was a very special day for those who gatrhered at the only
theatre Dohuk (South Kurdistan).
Finaly,Club de PEN Basque ,« The Kurds in Syria celebrate the
fourth anniversary of the uprising of Qamishli, its own "intifada"
Sunday was a very special day for those who gathered at the only theate of
Men and women entered on separate doors, but, unlike other times, once
inside they sat down together. It was striking that very few of the
attendees filled his head with a veil and that many vistieran jeans and
other Western clothing court. Those who packed on Sunday, the stalls were
Kurds from Syria refugees in South Kurdistan. Celebred the fourth
anniversary of the uprising of Qamishli: "intifada" of Kurds in
Syria. The stage is
flanked by two giant portraits of Mustafa Barzani, the historic leader of
the Kurds in the region where they have sought refuge. There are also two
banners: "The lifting of Qamishli is the victory of our people".
A
boy about 20 years dressed in traditional Kurdish clothes presents the
event. After reading aloud letters arrived from all sorts of associations,
gives way to a succession of speeches, all in the hands of various
personalities from the KDP (Kurdistan Democratic Party), but one of a Kurd
from Syria who thanked the party Barzani hospitality. Interventions are
strung one after another, and after a while, the little ones are beginning
to mourn. The rest of the family draws pictures with the mobile, and
applauds timidly after each speech.[17][18]
But the environment is encouraged with the staging of a small play. A group
of three men and three women, representing all the Kurdish people, looking
for a place to spend the night. On the right, a man sitting at a table does
"receptionist" from heaven to the left, from hell. The Kurds on
both wonder if there is room for them. Following denied asylum to both, go
to the public: "We are the Kurds, 40 million people, and we have no
where to go." [19]
We know the
policy of the USA in support of South people of Kurdistan as was explained
by Karim Nadjmaddin; President of the Institute of Kurdish Washington
“President
George W. Bush has argued for a new strategy in Iraq that will concentrate
on providing security for Baghdad and its diverse religious and ethnic
population. Although this change in the American military approach has been
long overdue, it alone will not be enough to stop the violence in Iraq --
nor will it bring home U.S. troops any faster.
There
is no doubt tha t
the Iraqis must step up to the plate in order to achieve a sustainable and
stable democracy. The new plan, however, must coincide with a political
strategy, one that accepts the reality of a country torn apart by its past
and present.”
As know Mr President The US Department of State’s yearly Country
Report on Human Rights Practices, released by the Bureau of Democracy, Human
Rights, and Labor on 11 March of this year said that “the government
generally respected the human rights of its citizens; however, serious
problems remained in several areas.”
On February 24, 2008 in Bowling Green, Ohio the
president of the Kurdistan National Assembly of Syria and the Chairman of
America-Kurdistan Friendship League met with President Bill Clinton and
asked him to intervene and to find a peaceful resolution to the conflict by
encouraging dialogue among Turkey, and KRG. Furthermore, he asked President
Clinton to help in the establishment of American Bases in Kurdistan to
protect the Kurds from Iran, Syria, and Turkey. President Clinton said
that Senator Clinton has a plan for establish temporary base in Kurdistan to
protect the Kurds and Turkish PM expresses to him that they do not oppose
such plans. Also, he mentioned that Kurds of Iran, Iraq, and Syria are
important allies for the US in the region.
THE
NEWRUZ IN KURDISTAN ORIENTAL(
IRAN)
Within the first three months of 2008, 136 Kurds have been killed, imprisoned, or disappeared in Iranian Kurdistan Since the start of the year 2008, 2 Kurds are reportedly executed, 3 sentenced to death and 7 are randomly killed by the security forces of the regime of Islamic Republic, among the killed a 17 years old teenager. The Islamic republic of Iran has increased its oppression against the Kurds in Iran. Human rights violation against the Kurds in Iran has been part of the clerical regime tyrannical culture during the last three decades. Since the installment of Mahmoud Ahmadi Nejad as the regime’s president in 2005, the violation of human rights in Iranian Kurdistan has escalated to a new level.Within the last 3 months, at least 43 people are detained for unknown reasons, 3 people are sentenced to death, 2 are executed, 7 people are randomly killed, among them a 17 years old teenager, 3 injured, and at least 26 people are questioned; furthermore, 16 students are questioned by the university discipline council. Overall 23 people sentenced to prison, whose verdicts are between 6 months to lifetime. Two people have been sent to exile, 11 people are condemned to various lashes and 20 million IR (2000 euro) penalties. In last three months a Kurdish NGO was closed down by the security forces and 2 Kurdish weeklies were closed down by the clerical regime.
Iranian
Artilleries Resumes Bombarding Border Villages of Kurdistan Region [20]
This evening the Iranian artilleries resumed bombarding the border
villages of Kurdistan region including Rizgah, Shinawa, Spigle, Maraud and
Arke in Pishder district, Sulaimani province, PUKmedia correspondent
reported from the scene. Meanwhile unidentified warplanes have been
patrolling over those areas’ air spaces and at about 08pm Thursday the
Iranian artilleries once again bombarded those villages, our correspondent
added.No casualties were reported, but the local citizens fled for their
lives. A Japanese organization, the UNHCR, and the IRC opened a refugee camp
to the displaced people of the areas, PUKmedia correspondent said as well.
Iran
bombed the region of Kurdistan South
Unfortunately,
Iran’s defiance to the international community especially in regards to
its nuclear program has shifted the attention of the world community from
the increasing violation of human and national rights of Kurdish people in
Iran and other parts of Iran. Democratic Party of Iranian Kurdistan calls
upon the international community to pay more attention to the ongoing
violation of human rights in Iranian Kurdistan and all of Iran.[21]
The
Islamic Republic revolutionary court sentenced 7 Kurdish detainees to 3
years imprisonment in the Kurdish City of Baneh, eastern or Iranian
Kurdistan, according to the communiqué issued by the Kurdistan Democratic
Party –Iran or KDPI on Tuesday. Mr.
Sadiq Amin Nejad, Saman Rasoulian, Abdollah Ranjbari, Kaveh Hassani,
Mohammad Bahrami, Rastgar Mesgari and Mohamad Amin Ghaderi were sentenced to
various imprisonment terms for participating in demonstrations against the
Islamic Republic, the communiqué stated. "They acted against National
Security, disturbed general order and participated in covert meeting,"
according to their verdict. They, according to the communiqué, are
condemned to one year communion jail and two years unconditional jail. The
victims were participating in a general demonstration on April 8, 2005 in
city of Baneh. They have been held under captivity since their detainment
following the demonstration. In the same demonstration, the communiqué
reveals, 3 Kurds were also killed by the armed forces of the Islamic
Republic.[22]
Concluding the viewpoint of a sociological and historical approach
State policies colonialists Turkey, Iran, Iraq and Syria to respect
the Kurdistan ls are memes and the same. Throughout history these States
have collaborated militarily politically against the independence of
Kurdistan. We note in the simple facts in the practice of a festival of
peace these policies have been realized. The question is, is that the United
States will continue America on the old policy based on Mr. Kissinger report
Mr James Baker that we criticized last year. One thing is certain, and on Mr
President George W Bush whether you agree or disagree with our proposals for
the independence of our country, our nation and our people we will continue
fighting unconditionally and for national independence; political and
economic Kurdistan for political unification of Kurdistan and to found a
state of Kurdistan unification. .C is our historic spot for us writers of
Kurdistan you explain our truth. The rest is a matter of human history that
we assume our responsibility. We will win because we are right historically.
We explain the facts.
THE
NEWRUZ IN NORTH KURDISTAN
Dear President G W Bush,
For Amnesty International There were continuing reports of
fatal shootings of civilians by members of the security forces. The usual
explanation for these killings was that the victims had failed to obey a
warning to stop, but such killings often demonstrated disproportionate use
of force and in some cases may have amounted to extrajudicial executions.
There were concerns about Article 16 in the revised Law to Fight Terrorism
which failed to be explicit that lethal force could only be used when
strictly unavoidable to protect life. There were fears that Article 16,
which permitted the "direct and unhesitating" use of firearms to
"render the danger ineffective", could further hinder thorough and
impartial investigations into shootings by members of the security forces.
Members
of the security forces continued to use excessive force during the policing
of demonstrations. Demonstrations in March in Diyarbak¹r, to mark the
funeral ceremony of four PKK members, escalated into violent protests. Ten
people, including four minors, were killed, eight of them from gunshot
wounds. Many demonstrators and police officers were injured. Investigations
into the killings were continuing at the end of the year. The demonstrations
spread to neighbouring cities; two demonstrators were shot dead in the town
of Kiziltepe, a stray bullet killed a boy aged three in the city of Batman,
and in Istanbul three women died when a bus crashed after being set on fire
by demonstration .In September a bombing in a park in Diyarbak¹r resulted
in 10 deaths. The perpetrators were unknown.»[23]
One area has been an increase in reported cases of torture and
ill-treatment. It was emphasised that security forces have carried out
extrajudicial killings and that most of those responsible have been left
unpunished. The report
also described conditions in prisons as “poor, with problems of
overcrowding and insufficient staff training.”
The report continued, “Law enforcement officials did not always
provide detainees immediate access to attorneys as required by law. Some
government and military officers at times undermined the judiciary's
independence, and the overly close relationship of judges and prosecutors
continued to hinder the right to a fair trial. Excessively long trials were
a problem.”
The 2007 country report cited information from the
Human Rights Foundation (IHV), the Human Rights Association (IHD), the
Asssociation for Solidarity with the Oppressed (Mazlum-Der), among others on
human rights violations.
There was criticism of the continuing application of Article 301,
articles protecting the memory of Atatürk and the Anti-terrorism Law, all
of which, so the report, led journalists and others to practice
self-censorship:
“Individuals could not criticize the state or government publicly
without fear of reprisal, and the government continued to restrict
expression by individuals sympathetic to some religious, political, and
Kurdish nationalist or cultural viewpoints. In some cases government
officials prosecuted individuals who had displayed no intention of
criticizing or insulting the government or Turkish state."
"Active debates on human rights and government policies
continued, particularly on issues relating to the country's EU membership
process, the role of the military, Islam, political Islam, the question of
Turks of Kurdish and other ethnic or religious origins as 'minorities,' and
the history of the Turkish-Armenian conflict at the end of the Ottoman
Empire.and by Mustafa Kemal,realised
"However,
persons who wrote or spoke out on such topics, particularly on the Armenian
issue, risked prosecution. The Turkish Publishers’ Association reported
that serious restrictions on freedom of expression continued despite legal
reforms related to the country's EU candidacy.”
As for academic freedom, the report said that “there generally were
no government restrictions on academic freedom or cultural events; however,
university authorities suspended one academic who publicly supported views
contrary to the official state ideology and there was some self-censorship
on sensitive topics.”[24]
“Every intellectual Kurd’s opinion anywhere in the world considered this
period as a new era in Kurdish politics. They had all been predicting that
this time was not like any other time in the history of Kurdish politics.
This time the USA was on the Kurds’ side and they would not let the Kurds
down. The Kurd intellectuals were correct for a while; however things
changed.
The situation changed in a way that the USA took Turkey’s side over
Kurdistan even though Kurdistan has been the only ally inside Iraq in this
last war. The new strategy by the USA is not because of Turkey’s
considerable progress in industry as compared to Kurdistan. It is not also
because Turkey is an active member of NATO and has a modern army.
They have to calm Turkey, Saudi
Arabia and Syria down. They have to calm Turkey down by no longer supporting
a strong Kurdish region in Iraq. Four years ago the USA would have turned
down Turkey’s plea to enter Kurdistan, because Kurdistan was considered a
democratic place and because the Kurdish nation was in support of their
regional government.
-Dozens of people were injured and many others arrested Saturday in
several cities in Turkey, the police have used truncheons and tear gas to
control demonstrations pro - Kurdish media reported.[25]
In Van a city in Kurdistan in
the east, riot police used tear gas and water cannons to disperse about
30000 protesters, who had built barricades, lit fires and smashed the
windows of shops and institutional buildings, media reported. In this city
the Turkish security forces have attacqué the Kurdish civilians who wanted
to celebrate the Kurdish new year, killing one woman and wounded hundreds of
Kurds. Turkey does not respcte human rights and libertzés fondamantales
Kurds. Under pretext of the situation and military strategy, which Turkey is
a colonialist state and transformed the Kurdistan impérialiste a North hell
in the open. I think that the USA doient act against this policy of
discrimination that has already racist practices of genocide of Armenians
peoples Greeks Assyro Chaldeans
and Kurds.
The Kurds of Turkey Newroz benefit usually demanding greater rights and
display, for many of them, their support for the PKK, fighting since 1984
the Turkish forces.
In
a press conference he held yesterday after a meeting with Prime Minister of
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines Ralph Gonsalves, Erdoðan said DTP
officials had recently demanded to meet with him to discuss the Kurdish
issue. "As the prime minister of the Turkish Republic, I cannot have
talks with the DTP unless they designate the outlawed PKK a terrorist
organization," he said.
Noting that he had assigned one of the deputy chairmen of the ruling Justice
and Development Party's (AK Party) parliamentary group and one deputy prime
minister to have a talk with the DTP officials, Erdoðan said the two met
with DTP parliamentary group chairman Ahmet Türk
“You know, I have always had sensitivity on this issue. The DTP refuses to
call the PKK separatist group a terrorist organization. I told the DTP
officials that I would not hold talks with them if they insist on this
refusal,” said Erdoðan.
Emphasizing that the PKK is listed as a terrorist organization
internationally by a number of states and organizations, including the US
and the EU, he said as prime minister, he cannot accept a political party
refusing to call this group a terrorist formation. “The DTP is not the
representative of Kurdish citizens in eastern and southeastern Turkey,
as they claim,” he noted. While it is Mr Erdogan
which has hosted home of the Taliban and that is Mr Gul which funded
al Qaida when he was in the leadership of the Islamic World Bank
Erdoðan
maintained that his government had made considerable investments in these
regions in the last five years and refuted allegations that it was planning
to make investments worth $12 billion in the Southeast in a move to gain
victory in the upcoming local elections.
DTP parliamentary group chairman Türk, on the other hand, said Erdoðan’s
remarks would “bring no good to the country.” Türk also noted that such
statements would increase tension among the public.
“Our party has endeavored to overcome the problems the country has
recently been experiencing. We have done our utmost to this end. During our
meetings with President Abdullah Gül and Parliament Speaker Köksal Toptan
we emphasized that Turkey needs social compromise,” he said.
Saying that Erdoðan’s remarks will trigger a new wave of discussion in
society, Türk noted that heavy responsibility falls on the shoulders of the
country’s prime minister to ensure peace at home. “We are aware of our
responsibilities. We are aware of our public’s demands and sensitivities.
But the leader of a political party does not have the authority to say
whatever he wishes,” stated Türkish.[26]
Dear. President George W.Bush
The
USA and finance The European
Union and militarised Turkey.
The year she received assistance from 16 milliards December dollars for
Modernizing
and finance
the
Air Force. Turkish State has utilised this
potential military action against the resistance of Kurdistan which is not a
terrorist resistance, which it has not used military means against the
interests of the USA. In this connection the analyses of the CIA and the
Pentagon's personnel are completely erroneous. We are fighting for our
independence conter state and colonialist Turkish impérialiste, Iran and
Syria. Our struggle is legitimate and consistent with the international
driur. The politic the USA in this direction is against the right to self
determination of the nation's Kurdistan.En a word, the United States will
not participated in the crimes of genocide by the State imperialiste
Turkish. And 52 of NATO on our
territory. The question that seeks among Turkish USA then all the riches are
fundamental to the land of Kurdistan. It's our oil, our water and our mines.
Turkish army has used so long 300 billions of US dollar in war against Kurds
since 1984. The information has been confirmed earlier by the spokesmen of
the Turkish government Cemil Cicek.
TURKEY
AND UNION EUROPEAN