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

that regard, and as a representative of the KNC in the
parliament I made a suggestion that the Congress
committee (which I was heading for the past ten years)
should call to hold the third conference of the KNC in
Paris. Immediately after me, Mr. Zubeir Aidar (head of
the Kurdistan parliament’s management committee) stood
and supported holding the conference in Paris. This was
also in presence of Mr. Yeshar Kaya who did not show
any reservations regarding the holding of the third
conference of the KNC in Paris. However, Mr. Yeshar
Kaya called me to Brussels just ten days before holding
the conference and asked me to cancel the conference
because, in his opinion, the Kurdistan National Congress
is a conspiracy and harmful. He literally told me: Hussein
Yelderm and Kendal Nazan are behind this conspiracy!!
Then I returned to London to consult with the preparation
committee of the conference and asked for their views
regarding this strange demand. Their decision was as
mine, not to postpone the conference and at the same
time we should consider other people’s views. So, I sent
a letter by fax to Mr. Yeshar Kaya asking him to answer
me in writing within 48 hours regarding the conspiracy
he mentioned and the harmfulness of the KNC, in order
to inform the delegates of the conference and free the
preparation committee from the responsibility of
postponing the conference. But Mr. Yeshar Kaya did
not reply to the letter. So, we decided to hold the
conference despite receiving threats directly and indirectly
from him. And the conference was held despite the
hostilities against it. The irony is in the fact that Mr.
Kendal Nazan made huge efforts to stop the conference
from being held in one of the halls of the French parliament.
So, the KNC decided to hold the conference in another
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