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

Appendix
1) This delay in holding the third conference was
because of the liberation of part of Southern Kurdistan
and forming government and parliament of Kurdistan
there. We were very optimistic in this regard and expected
that they would be transformed little by little to contain
the whole Kurdish people or at least they would permit
us to hold the third conference of the KNC in Kurdistan
beside their regional parliament. However, none of these
happened because of their regional and international
circumstances and we appreciate that. During that period
a number of Kurds who were members of the Turkish
parliament fled to Europe and worked on forming a
Kurdish parliament in exile on 12 April 1995 in the
Hague in Holland. I was invited to it and became a
member of that parliament and worked in the committee
of foreign relations as a representative of the idea of
forming the Kurdistan National Congress in the Kurdistan
parliament in exile. That was after the Kurdistan
parliament adopted the idea of the KNC, and I showed
my readiness to unite all efforts in that regard. A committee
was formed to make contacts to form a Congress in
Brussels and I participated in its work also and participated
in interviews and forums on Kurdish television Med-TV
dedicated to the Kurdistan National Congress. However,
all of a sudden and from the start of 1996 the Kurdish
TV and the Kurdistan parliament in exile stopped any
mention of the KNC. So, during the meeting of the
Kurdistan parliament in Rome on 15/7/1996, I spoke in
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