There are lots of people who live around the world and call themselves Kurd. These people originate from the area where the following counties have their borders with each other or one: Iran, Iraq and Turkey. This area is called The Cradle of Civilization. Some stupid and disgusting Westerners, mainly from Britain at the beginning and then from the US call the area Middle East, obviously to degrade the people, their culture and generally their being. Now you go to the news to see what happens to the different communities of major cities in the US! They also encouraged these people, Kurds, to fight other people of the region! Something that Westerners have been doing for decades: Divide and Conquer! They started the Iran-Iraq War in late 1980 and destroyed the two of the biggest economies and strongest countries in the region. Before that, long before that they ripped India and created three countries out of it!
Kurds have been fighting for an independent state since WWI and surely there're countries who benefit from that. Just explained above why! There were and still are different groups, parties and factions in the area. sometime they fought against each other simply for the power! One of the major parties which was started in the eastern part of Turkey, where a majority of Kurdish people live, was PKK or Kurdish Worker's Party. These people led by Abdullah Ujalan fought against the Turkish government for years. Ujalan was finally arrested outside Turkey and brought in for trial. He was sentenced to death first but then was reduced to life in prison and he was sent to an island off the coast of the country. That was the late 1990s. The funny thing is he only escaped death because Turkey just had abolished capital punishment as one of the requirements to join the European Union! The silliest and most stupid thing in the history of politics: Turkey, the residue of the Ottoman Empire, who fought Christians for decade and eventually captured Constantinople and renamed it to Istanbul, now was begging Christian Europeans to be accepted amongst them! Despite their constant begging for decades and kissing every European politician's ass, the Turkish Muslims are not yet accepted by the Christian of the European Union! I'm getting off the subject but it was necessary to mention that and it also is necessary to mention that Turkey is the only non-European, non-North American and non-Christian country member of NATO! So the question is how Turkey, who has been struggling economically within the last few years and has a very high inflation rate, is able to meet the 2% GPD contribution to NATO and Canada cannot!???!! This must be the subject of another post.
Ujalan finally after years of being the only prisoner in the island of Marmara Sea announced the dismantling of PKK and the members have given up their weapons. This means more peace for the region. Some other Kurds in northern Iraq have autonomy in their region but the ones in Iran still are fighting the central government. Syria also has a population of Kurds and I don't know what has happened to them under the new regime after Assad left the country for Russia. Peace might not sound good to the countries who always seek destruction and war for others because that is how they benefit. That is how they sell their weapons and that is how they bid on rebuilding projects!
There's a population of Kurds in Canada, like everywhere else, I'd assume. There's a big community of them in Germany and that country had a big population of Turks and these two groups have been seen clashing on the street of major German cities while Kurds were holding PKK and Ujalan banners and pictures. I wonder what they are doing now that PPK is no more!
(Photo: Ujalan is seen here in an undisclosed location with Kurdish guerrillas, in the early 1990s)
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