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

place because Mr. Kendal Nazan was thinking that the
Kurdistan Workers Party was behind the idea of the KNC.
There is also the astonishing fact that Mr. Marwan Zarki
(Al-Agha) and Mr. Omer Ausi, the chief editor of “Saut
Kurdistan” magazine, which is issued by the PKK in
Damascus [this magazine is not the same “Saut Kurdistan”
that is published in Austria with Mr. Abu Tara as its
chief editor], attended the conference, and they informed
me that Mr. Abdullah Ocalan had not issued any
instructions indicating that he was against the conference,
and had it been the case they would not have attended
the third conference in Paris. When they went back I
gave them a letter to Mr. Abdullah Ocalan to make him
aware of the acts of Mr. Yeshar Kaya that contradicted
his instructions.
My main difference with the Kurdistan parliament in
exile (more exactly with Mr. Yeshar Kaya who always
tries to distance freedom loving patriots from the centers
of power) was their opposition to the idea of a Kurdistan
National Congress. That is why I forwarded my
resignation because the issue of the KNC is a strategic
issue, and I cannot compromise to ignore it whatever the
circumstances. The second point that made me not sorry
to resign from the Kurdistan parliament in exile was the
letter of Mr. Abdullah Ocalan to the parliament which
was read by the chairman of the parliament during its
meeting in the Norwegian capital Oslo on 20 November
1996 in which he said: “From now on your name will be
the Federal Parliament of Kurdistan (as part of Kurdistan
affiliated to the Turkish state) instead of the Kurdistan
parliament in exile.” The thing that worries me most
and makes me bitter is the fact that we are on the verge
of the twenty first century and the intellectual factions of
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