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"Iraq is a state without national identity, an artificial constructionfrom the colonial period ...The Kurds are one of theoldest stepchildren of history. For this reason, the West shouldmake every effort to assist the Kurds and the Iraqis infınding asolution. The West cannot escape its responsibility" u .That the West, in particular Germany, did in fact rapidly rememberits "responsibility" to the Kurds, is made apparent from the followinglines in the same nevvspaper, vvhich appeared nearly at the same time:Should Turkey be permitted vvhat vvas denied to Sadam Hussien? Arethere good and bad Kurds in the sense of political tactics? The Kurdishquestion has long since become the equivalent of the Palestinian problem.But no one pays any attention to it" 15 . Hovvever, six day later one read:"Except for Bonn, no one protested when a few days ago the Turkisharmy bombed Kurdish camps in northern Iraq and penetrated up to fortykilometers into Iraqi territory" 16 . It may be seen from these quotes thatGerman journalism equates Turkish citizens of Kurdish extraction vviththe PKK and compares their situation vvith that of the Iraqi Kurds. Hovvever,the Germans are supposedly popular among the Iraqi Kurds and reportedly:"The Kurds kiss the hands of their (German) helpers and have acomplete ...hatred of the Turkish soldiers... TTıe German soldiers are alsoenraged 17 . The Kurds, vvhether they live in Iraq or in Turkey, are seen byGerman journalism as an ethnic unity constituting an 'irksome' 18 and 'unpopular'19 section of the population, against vvhich the 'anti-KurdishTurkish state' 20 vvages a vvar of annihilation 21 . It is therefore presumably amatter of indifference vvhether "a Kurdish lavvyer vvishes to flee the dictatorialIraqi regime oef Saddam, or a Turkish Kurd vvishes to flee the armyof his country (or) a Coptic Christian vvishes to flee from the Islamic fundamentalistsof Egypt" 22 . Accordingly, Turkey is "a torture chamber, invvhich the Kurds are subject to a collective persecution solely because oftheir ethnic identity" 23 . Because of this, "the conflict vvith the Kurds is aquestion of human and minority rights and must be treated as such" 24 . Occasionally,this is expressed by the German foreign minister as "a politi-14. Thomas Ross: Des Exodus und die neue Weltordnung, FAZ, 4/18/1991.15. VVolfgang Günter Lerch: Zweierlei Mafi, FAZ, 8/10/1991.16. Dersi: Saddam ermutigt, FAZ, 8/16/1991.17. Axel Wermelskirchen: Die Kürden küssen die Hande der deutschen Helfer, FAZ, 4/19/1991.18. Udo Ulfkotte: Ablenkungsmanöver, FAZ, 1/3/1998.19. Dilek Zaptcıoğlu: Mut der Venvzeiflung, Tageszeitung, 1/3/1998.20. Bernhard Hülsenbusch: "Almania" heifit das gelobte Land der Gestrandeten, StuttgarterZeitung (StZ), 1/5/1998.21. Berliner Zeitung, 1/5/1998.22. Heinz-Joachim Fischer: Mit dem Elend der Menschen wird Schindluder getrieben,FAZ, 1/6/1998.23. Jochen Buchsteiner: Aus Deutschland in die Folterkammer, Die Zeit, 6/10/1994.24. Kinkel appelliert wegen Kurdenflucht an die Türkei, StZ, 1/5/1998.822