Kurdistan and The Kurds A Divided Homeland and a Nation without ...

happened to the occupants of the Zilan valley who were
gathered in the valley and burnt to death without any
survivors.
Thus was how the rule of Mustafa Kemal and the new
Turkish Republic started, and since then the Turkish
constitution declared that there is only one people in
Turkey, and that is the Turkish people. All others are
not legal. Furthermore, the Turkish education programs
state that the Turkish people are the origin of all people,
meaning that all other peoples in the world were born
out of the Turkish nation, and the Turkish language is
the origin of all the languages of the world. This led the
leader of the Nazi Germany, Adolph Hitler to say that he
was educated by the ideas of Mustafa Kemal.
Since the twenties of the twentieth century and up to
the Turkish military coup in 1980, the Kurdish people
lived ups and downs. However, whenever the democratic
wave was strengthened the Kurdish parties, instead of
unifying their efforts and take advantage, they would
start fighting between themselves. In this way the best
of the Kurdish activists were killed and eliminated. While,
as soon as the democratic wave passes and a military
coup takes over, the Kurdish-Kurdish antagonism stops
and the Turkish authority takes over the elimination of
the Kurds. The most recent of these coups was in 1980
under the command of General Kanan Evren, after which
all the Kurdish parties fled Turkey and resided in Syria.
The strongest of those parties at the time was Alai Rizgari
Party under the leadership of the revolutionary lady Khajo.
Our comrades in Pasok Party informed me that when the
activist Khajo visited the Peshmarga headquarters there,
she was accompanied by 40 Peshmarga (Freedom
fighters). While the Kawa Party was subjected to a huge
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