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

Kurds and Arabs which caused a huge harm to the Arab
nationality more than to the Kurdish nationality. For
example had it not been for the Arab chauvinism the
Kurdish people in Southern Kurdistan under the Iraqi
rule would have enjoyed autonomy or federalism decades
ago. However, the chauvinism and racism made them
blind in hearts and minds which led to the current situation
when the Kurds are enjoying federalism under
international protection and the Southern Kurdistan is
practically separated from Iraq and the coming days
promise even more than that if the chauvinism continues
in its arrogance and injustice.
4) This is an old Turkish habit in dealing with the
bodies of the Kurdistan martyrs by hiding them so that
they would not turn into evidence for their crimes and
deprive the Kurds of historical symbols that ignite the
patriotic feeling among them. For example they stole
and hid the bodies of all revolutionaries, first of all, the
bodies of Sheikh Saiid Piran and his comrades after
executing them in 1925 in Diarbakir. However, the exalted
God does not punish people in the world after death only
but sometimes in this world also. For example the
descendants of those who killed the leaders of the Kurdish
people were demonstrating in a hypocritical way on the
shores of the Marmora Sea opposite the Emrali Island
where Mr. Abdullah Ocalan, leader of the PKK, was
imprisoned in 1999. They were shouting that the Kurds
had killed their sons. While we are sure that most of
those killed in the Kurdish – Turkish war are Kurds and
even the Turkish soldiers who were killed were also Kurds
as 90% of the Turkish soldiers in the region of Kurdistan
are of Kurdish ethnicity. The ancestors of those
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