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

the Kurdish people still cannot express their opinions
freely. For example whenever a high ranking member
of the PKK supported an issue in the parliament all the
others supported it even without discussion, let alone if
the words came from the leader of the PKK himself. As
for the style, the parliament was obsessed with contacting
any opposition groups to any government in the world!!
For example when I was a member of the foreign relations
committee of the Kurdistan parliament in exile I carried
out contacts with numerous governments of the world to
explain the cause of Kurdistan, among them Arabic
countries and first of all Egypt. I held meetings with
Egyptian officials, but at the same time (without the
knowledge of the foreign relations committee of the
Kurdistan parliament and all of a sudden) the chairman
of the Kurdistan parliament in exile Mr. Yeshar Kaya
carried out a visit to Egypt and contacted the Egyptian
opposition organizations that fight against the government,
thus blocking my attempts with the Egyptian government
that were about to give fruit. I sincerely believe that Mr.
Yeshar Kaya and his kinds, by their foreign policies,
deprive the Kurdish people from any international support.
For example they were asking their members in 1996 to
make contacts with the Labour Party who was in the
opposition and against the ruling Conservative Party.
When I was asking them to contact Lord Jeffrey Archer,
a friend of the Kurdish people and one of the most
prominent British personalities in the ruling Conservative
Party, they would accuse Lord Archer of being an
imperialist and capitalist. However, those same people
started contacting Lord Jeffrey Archer when his Party
lost the elections and became the opposition!! And started
publishing photos of Lord Archer in their publications.
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