Turkey is holding talks with Ocalan to push for the disarmament of the Kurdish Army in exchange for partial autonomy of Northern Kurdistan. Erdogan has now concluded that Turkey cannot defeat the Kurdish army. Erdogan says: The goal is the disarmament of the Kurdish army. The government supports any dialogue to this end that could result in a halt to violence. You cannot get results and abolish an organization only with armed struggle. Ocalan is the main actor in efforts to resolve the Kurdish conflict.
Officers from the National Intelligence Organization hold meetings with Ocalan every day. Ocalan was sentenced to death in 1999, though that was later commuted to life imprisonment following the abolition of the death penalty in Turkey in 2002. Turkey gets Patriot missiles from NATO, pretending
defense against Syria, but the real purpose is the war against Kurdistan.
Turks and Kurds lock horns over Northern Kurdistan. A poll of http://venitism.blogspot.com shows 90% of the people believe 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!
The Kurdish army is fighting for an autonomous Kurdistan. Abdullah Ocalan, the heroic leader of Kurds, was betrayed by the catastrophic Simitis Government who also betrayed 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. Ocalan is imprisoned on Imrali island in the Marmara Sea south of Constantinoupolis.
Disappearances and extrajudicial executions have emerged as new and disturbing patterns of human rights violations by the Turkish state. Turkey is also using chemical and biological weapons against the Kurdish army and indignants.
Northern Kurdistan forms the south-eastern part of Turkey. It is dominated by high peaks rising to over 3,700 meters 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!
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. The Kurdish army took control of several provinces near Turkey’s border. Kurdish flags and posters of Ocalan fly from buildings in Western Kurdistan 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 what it is, we would consider it a matter of national,security and take every measure.
Erdogan accuses Assad of allowing the Kurdish army 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 the Kurdish army.
Turkey has been fighting against the Kurdish army since 1984, and the conflict has so far claimed fifty thousand lives. The Kurdish army has been effectively using its bases in the mountainous region of Southern Kurdistan. With its growing influence and strength in Syria’s Kurdish populated regions, the Kurdish army has now liberated Western Kurdistan.
The recent developments have sparked stronger demands by Turkish Kurds from
Ankara and further increased tension in Northern 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.
Erdogan wants to overthrow Assad, but he expects that the mosaic of Syrian society, its ethnic make-up, will remain stable. When you shake the kaleidoscope, you cannot be certain where the pieces will fall down. Erdogan cannot have his cake and eat it too when it comes to toppling Assad and maintaining regional stability. With the growing hostility between Ankara and Damascus and the fact that the Turkish and Syrian authorities have lost control of large parts of the border with Turkey, the Kurdish army can operate in Northern Kurdistan.
Threatening Syria with reprisals will only fuel the independence of Kurdistan, just as cracking down on Kurdish resistance does not change the fact that now we have two autonomous areas on the Turkish border, Southern Kurdistan and Western Kurdistan. Lebanonization of Syria leads to liberation of Kurdistan. But Erdogan wants to have it both ways. He wants to see the implosion of the Syrian regime, but he doesn’t want to see the liberation of Kurdistan. For Turks, this logical contradiction is coming home to haunt them. http://venitism.blogspot.com