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

from any patriotism and Kurdish morality. That is why
it is not surprising that Turkey did not agree to kill him.
During the visit of the American President to Syria in
1996, the Kurdistan Parliament gathered in Copenhagen
in Denmark, I was then still a member in that Parliament
and on that occasion I stood up in the Parliament and I
said that “you should be aware and careful from the
peace treaty that might be signed between Syria and Israel
as the American President intends to achieve.” I also
said: “If the agreement between Israel and Syria takes
place it means a Syrian – Turkish agreement, and then
we see the danger. We do not want to see the revolution
in Northern Kurdistan crumbles as happened to the
revolution of the late Mella Mustafa after the Iraqi –
Iranian agreement in 1975.“ I remember that time one of
the leaders of the KWP answered me by saying: “Our
revolution is so great that it is unjust to compare it with
the revolution of Mella Mustafa.” I told him that I hope
that is right and there is no great and non-great revolutions
as all the revolutions in our history came to complement
the previous ones. The time proved what I mentioned
and indeed Syria betrayed the KWP as I expected.
Since expelling the KWP from Syria according to the
traitorous Adana treaty between Syria and Turkey, which
was the main reason for arresting their leader, and up to
now they have not directed even one word of criticism
against Syria, and Syria is still some sacred thing for
them. What is the meaning of that? Their demonstrations
throughout the streets of Europe are chanting with slogans
against the American and Israeli “traitors!!”, and raising
red flags with the sickle and hammer. It was not Israel
and neither America that betrayed them as Syria did after
a friendship lasting 14 years. After all I repeat what I
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