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

This approach of your and other European governments
is very similar to the British appeasement policy versus
Nazi Germany during the agreement of Munich in 1938
when Czechoslovakia was sacrificed to the German
aggressor, and Chamberlain's “peace in our time” led
directly to World War II.
Likewise it's a very short-sighted policy always to make
concessions to Turkey and always to tolerate the
permanent oppression of the Kurdish people. For example,
as you certainly know, the Kurdish Member of Parliament
Mrs. Leyla Zana was sentenced to imprisonment for 15
years because she spoke one sentence in Kurdish language
in front of the Turkish Parliament. That's Turkey as it is
just now, and they are longing to imprison Mrs. Zana
again.
No European government seems really to concern about
the fact that Erdogan's so highly praised reforms exist on
paper only up till now. We are deeply afraid that Kurdish
human and political rights might be ignored in future,
too, since at this critical moment of decision even the
mere words Kurds and Kurdistan were not allowed to be
mentioned, in order to avoid Turkey to be offended by
the mention of these words.
This way the European Union will no longer be a
stronghold of human rights and liberty and equality of
nations. In contrary it will be conquered by the Trojan
horse of Kemalist Fascism.
As long as Turkey will not recognize the existence of
25 million Kurds within her frontiers and will not
recognize the culture and the human rights of these 25
million Kurds, there shouldn't take place any negotiations
about Turkey's entry to the EU. And Turkey will be able
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