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First about a shop that serves falafels at Adams Morgan neighborhood in Washington, DC. On one of its walls hangs a sign with a quote: “I love my country… but I think we should start seeing other people.” For Americans who have a country, the quote is whimsical. But...
By KANI XULAM 5/12/2013 "He that once enters at a tyrant's door becomes a slave, though he were free before." Sophocles To be...
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...
