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Turks everywhere solemnly honor November 10, 1938 and its anniversaries, as a day of mourning. That’s when the founder of their country—Ataturk, so-called father of the Turks—died of liver failure due to alcoholism. In Turkey, Turks stop work to observe his passing....
March 17, 2013 “We are the ones we have been waiting for.” Barack Hussein Obama Dear President Obama, Like the sudden fall of...
In its reports, don’t expect to find a reference to Ismail Besikci who first “discovered” Kurds in Turkey and was awarded 17 years behind bars for his “treasonous” efforts nor a mention of Giuseppe Mazzini who had the likes of Kurds in mind when he said, “without [a] country … you are the bastards of humanity,” nor an acknowledgement of Tacitus who had the likes of Turks in mind when he said, “Master race and liberty do not go together.”
Instead bigoted Turks define the Kurds and turncoat Kurds act as exhibits of why Kurds should never enjoy a place of their own under the sun.
The people of Gaza speak Arabic with impunity; the people of Diyarbakir, unless they want to be hermits, are forced to speak Turkish. But that is not how the Turkish prime minister sees the situation. Diyarbakir he dismisses out of hand. Gaza he wants to grab with ten fingers.
Extracts from a commentary by Ahmet Altan in 'Yeni Yuzyil' July 22, 1996 I read a declaration of our Minister of Culture in the...
Wednesday, July 2, 1997 Ann Bozell: In Washington, an effort is underway to secure the release of Leyla Zana. She is the first...
By Kani Xulam February 24, 2000 On January 17, 2000, members of the elite Turkish police, acting on a "tip" from intelligence...
A Kurdish Response to the Stockholm International Forum on the Holocaust By Kani Xulam and Biseng Amed February 9, 2000 In...
