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

the control of the central government and within its
political borders. It is not important to curse the
colonialism and calling it by all sorts of bad adjectives
and descriptions, but the most important thing is that we,
who claim that we defend the Kurdish people, would not
call for concepts much worse than the acts of those
colonizers. Our demands for petty rights in each part of
our homeland within the political borders of the countries
occupying Kurdistan means that we, the Kurds, are fixing
those borders that have been sketched by the colonizers
to separate Kurdistan’s regions from each other. In
addition to all that those slogans of petty rights have
denied the Kurdish people from international support;
for first of all it implies to the outside world that we are
not a Kurdish nation that ask for independence and getting
rid of colonialism, and secondly it implies to the
international community that the Kurdish question is just
an internal affair within the borders of several countries,
and so, the international community has no right to
intervene in the internal affairs of sovereign countries!
Furthermore, the international community is building
its foreign policies on the basis of purely economical
interests. In the circumstances of autonomy, i.e. teaching
Kurdish language in schools and universities, has no effect
on international politics whatsoever. While if we demand
an independent Kurdish state, it means that we shall
become the owners of our homeland Kurdistan’s resources
with petrol being just one of them (for example the
Kurdistan land produces more than twenty million barrels
of petrol each day), then the international politics would
move to regard our interests.
Perhaps these notions would not appeal to some of
those who carry stereotyped ideas and principles and
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