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

movement deprived itself from taking advantage of any
changes and amendments in international politics by
demanding “autonomy for Kurdistan”. As by using this
cliché the cause of Kurdistan became regarded an internal
affair of those countries in the Middle East and the
international law does not allow and does not give any
right for intervention in the internal affairs of any country.
No one can stop the struggle because it is an essential
nature of things. So, if it was possible to make it less
intensive on the international level at the top in fear of a
nuclear war, it is not possible to stop it at the basis.
Moreover, the intensity increases at the basis as a natural
reaction to the restrictions at the top. We are on the
verge of changes and nationalistic, sectarian and racial
struggles the like of which history had never seen. On
top of that those countries would not like to create new
areas of conflict for themselves… so, they would not
involve in a war for any reason outside their direct interests.
Therefore they try their best to reach an understanding
and attempt to solve the problems that are threatening to
them and ignore non threatening ones. Thus the criteria
by which the powerful countries act in relation to other
peoples and smaller countries is interest, pure and simple.
The international press published what was said by the
last Soviet leader Gorbachev to the British Prime Minister
Margaret Thatcher during their meeting in London just
before he became the Soviet Premiere repeating the words
of the British Diplomat Lord Palmerton: “There are no
permanent allies but permanent interests.”
Also a western politician said in relation to the Kurdish
liberation movement: “It cannot protect our interests and
cannot threaten our interests.” This means that our
movement can be ignored in the international political
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