Supporting Kurdish independence

[Kurdistani4ever]

 

[ima]

Looks like a cancer sore.

 

[Kurdistani4ever]

I can finally post pictures

The occupiers of Kurdistan

 

[Kurdistani4ever]

Los Angeles, CA ,— As members of the Kurdish National Congress of North America (KNC-NA) and the Kurdish Americans of California, we will hold a 48-hour hunger strike in front of the CNN building in Los Angeles, starting on Monday, November 12th . This is to express our solidarity with the 10,000 Kurdish political prisoners who have been on hunger strike in Turkey, some of whom since September 12, 2012. With this protest, we want to simultaneously attract attention to the lack of international media coverage of the hunger strike and raise awareness.

Those who have started on September 12 are reaching the 60th day of an indefinite and irreversible hunger strike. Death and serious health problems are imminent, as the US-backed Turkish government refuses to meet the strikers' legitimate demands.

The hunger strikers simply want legal reforms that would allow the use their mother tongue in education and in legal defense, and the ending of the now sixteen-month-long solitary confinement of the imprisoned Kurdish leader Abdullah Ocalan so that negotiations for a peaceful resolution of the conflict can restart.

The Kurdish struggle for equal rights has made historic gains in recent years. Turkey has responded by imprisoning thousands of Kurdish democracy advocates, including elected parliamentarians, mayors, intellectuals, lawyers, journalists, students, and human rights defenders. The Kurdish movement continues to call for a democratic solution to the conflict within Turkey's territorial borders. Despite this, the Turkish government has taken an increasingly hard-line attitude. It unilaterally terminated negotiations with the Kurdish movement, intensified military and police operations to repress the Kurdish movement, and prevented Abdullah Ocalan from meeting his lawyers since July 2011.

The root cause of the hunger strike is the Turkish government's refusal to accept a negotiated solution to the Kurdish issue and its endeavors to crush any democratic resistance to its unjust policies. Any adverse outcomes resulting from the hunger strikes will be due to the government's intransigence.

Despite the fact that this hunger strike has reached the borders of death, the international media outlets have mostly remained silent on the issue. This parallels with the attitude of mainstream Turkish national media, who have ignored the hunger strike or reported it very lately and only peripherally.

The individuals who join this two-day hunger strike want to demonstrate their commitment to a cause that is unquestionably just and right. The Kurdish people in Turkey and abroad have been showing their support to the hunger strikers and their demands through various forms of protests and activities. Family members of the strikers and other concerned people have been alternately waiting in front of the prisons to pressure the government to urgently respond to the striker's demands in a humanist and democratic manner.

As Kurds based in North America, we want to call on the media outlets to practice humane and ethical journalistic standards and not keep their eyes blind and ears deaf on this serious matter. We also call on all people of conscience to ask their public authorities to put pressure on the Turkish government so that it would comply with international laws on human rights. Please reach your political representatives, Turkish consulates and embassies near you as well as human rights organizations and encourage them to take action before the hunger strikes result in death or irreparable damage.

An awareness and sensitivity in international public can save the lives of hunger strikes and contribute to a peaceful settlement of the conflict by granting the Kurds equal rights.

Please act now. Tomorrow may be too late.

Copyright © 2012 Ekurd.net

 

[Kurdistani4ever]

Turkish sub-humans attacking peaceful kurdish protestors.
[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g16Jbi4ARKs]Kurdish guy peacefully protesting gets attacked by 100 racist turks - YouTube[/ame]

 

[Kurdistani4ever]

And here's a special video for the haters
[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8lL-z18X_mc]HPG CRASH COBRA 24 turkish terrorist soldiers killed and taking turkish army weapons BDP PKK - YouTube[/ame]

 

[ima]

Los Angeles, CA ,— As members of the Kurdish National Congress of North America (KNC-NA) and the Kurdish Americans of California, we will hold a 48-hour hunger strike in front of the CNN building in Los Angeles, starting on Monday, November 12th . This is to express our solidarity with the 10,000 Kurdish political prisoners who have been on hunger strike in Turkey, some of whom since September 12, 2012. With this protest, we want to simultaneously attract attention to the lack of international media coverage of the hunger strike and raise awareness.

Those who have started on September 12 are reaching the 60th day of an indefinite and irreversible hunger strike. Death and serious health problems are imminent, as the US-backed Turkish government refuses to meet the strikers' legitimate demands.

The hunger strikers simply want legal reforms that would allow the use their mother tongue in education and in legal defense, and the ending of the now sixteen-month-long solitary confinement of the imprisoned Kurdish leader Abdullah Ocalan so that negotiations for a peaceful resolution of the conflict can restart.

The Kurdish struggle for equal rights has made historic gains in recent years. Turkey has responded by imprisoning thousands of Kurdish democracy advocates, including elected parliamentarians, mayors, intellectuals, lawyers, journalists, students, and human rights defenders. The Kurdish movement continues to call for a democratic solution to the conflict within Turkey's territorial borders. Despite this, the Turkish government has taken an increasingly hard-line attitude. It unilaterally terminated negotiations with the Kurdish movement, intensified military and police operations to repress the Kurdish movement, and prevented Abdullah Ocalan from meeting his lawyers since July 2011.

The root cause of the hunger strike is the Turkish government's refusal to accept a negotiated solution to the Kurdish issue and its endeavors to crush any democratic resistance to its unjust policies. Any adverse outcomes resulting from the hunger strikes will be due to the government's intransigence.

Despite the fact that this hunger strike has reached the borders of death, the international media outlets have mostly remained silent on the issue. This parallels with the attitude of mainstream Turkish national media, who have ignored the hunger strike or reported it very lately and only peripherally.

The individuals who join this two-day hunger strike want to demonstrate their commitment to a cause that is unquestionably just and right. The Kurdish people in Turkey and abroad have been showing their support to the hunger strikers and their demands through various forms of protests and activities. Family members of the strikers and other concerned people have been alternately waiting in front of the prisons to pressure the government to urgently respond to the striker's demands in a humanist and democratic manner.

As Kurds based in North America, we want to call on the media outlets to practice humane and ethical journalistic standards and not keep their eyes blind and ears deaf on this serious matter. We also call on all people of conscience to ask their public authorities to put pressure on the Turkish government so that it would comply with international laws on human rights. Please reach your political representatives, Turkish consulates and embassies near you as well as human rights organizations and encourage them to take action before the hunger strikes result in death or irreparable damage.

An awareness and sensitivity in international public can save the lives of hunger strikes and contribute to a peaceful settlement of the conflict by granting the Kurds equal rights.

Please act now. Tomorrow may be too late.

Copyright © 2012 Ekurd.net

You too much of a pussy to go to Turkey and do something about it?

 

[kirkuki]

we have pkk giving hell to turkey in occupied kurdish region .

and stop this BS line you keep repeating, there are over half a million turks in diaspora who already have a country, so hush hush troll.

 

[kirkuki]

turkey will be kneed to Kurdish freedom

The European Parliament will hold its 9th International Conference under the catchphrase of "EU, Turkey and the Kurds" on Wednesday 5 and Thursday 6 December at the Parliament’s building in Brussels, the capital of Belgium.

The 9th International Conference on “EU Turkey and the Kurds, The Kurdish Question in Turkey - Time to Renew the Dialogue and Resume Direct Negotiations, will take place in the EU Parliament December 5-6, 2012 with the participation of hundreds of world’s officials and intellectuals.

The conference’s objectives are to promote human rights for all citizens in Turkey, respect and protection of minorities and a peaceful, democratic and durable solution to the Kurdish question.

Patrons of the conference are Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu, Nobel Peace Prize Laureate, South Africa, Dr. Shirin Ebadi, Nobel Peace Prize Laureate, Iran, Bianca Jagger, Council of Europe Goodwill Ambassador, Chair of the Bianca Jagger Human Rights Foundation, UK, US writer and intellectual Prof. Noam Chomsky, Kurdish novelist Yasar Kemal, Turkish writer Vedat Turkali, Kurdish politician and activist in Turkey Leyla Zana European Parliament's Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought and Rafto Prize Laureate.

Hereby, the European Parliament media office cordially invites the writers, journalists and intellectuals to attend the conference.

European Parliament holds international congress for Kurdish question in Turkey

 

[Kurdistani4ever]

There's over 10 million turks outside of Turkey's fake borders. (Denmark is filled with them) So if Turkey's such a great country, then why won't they stay? Turks themselfes have confirmed that their country is a shithole!

 

[Meathead]

There's over 10 million turks outside of Turkey's fake borders. (Denmark is filled with them) So if Turkey's such a great country, then why won't they stay? Turks themselfes have confirmed that their country is a shithole!

True, especially the Kurdish parts. But I understand the goats are very friendly.

 

[Kurdistani4ever]

we have pkk giving hell to turkey in occupied kurdish region .

and stop this BS line you keep repeating, there are over half a million turks in diaspora who already have a country, so hush hush troll.

Ima only has three things to say:

1) Fuck chessekurds and chesseKurdistan

2) Are/were you busy f*cking goats?

3) Your a pussy hiding in Europe

Obviously the IQ up there is'nt in perfect shape

 

[Kurdistani4ever]

There's over 10 million turks outside of Turkey's fake borders. (Denmark is filled with them) So if Turkey's such a great country, then why won't they stay? Turks themselfes have confirmed that their country is a shithole!

True, especially the Kurdish parts. But I understand the goats are very friendly.

You don't even make sence. Is it due to the ''MEATHEAD'' of yours?

 

[Kurdistani4ever]

DERBASSIYE, Syrian Kurdistan,— Kurdish residents backed by militia have taken control of two Kurdish towns in Syrian Kurdistan in northeastern Syria near the border with Turkey after convincing pro-government forces to leave, a watchdog said on Saturday.

The region's Hasakeh province in western Kurdistan has seen heavy fighting in recent days between forces loyal to President Bashar al-Assad and rebels, with 46 combatants killed in two days as the opposition seized the border town of Ras al-Ain on Friday.

The Kurds took control of the towns of Derbassiye and Tall Tamr late on Friday, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.

They were backed by militia from the Democratic Union Party (PYD), which has links with Turkey's rebel Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), it added.

The residents and militiamen surrounded government and security offices in both towns and convinced pro-government forces to abandon their posts, said the Britain-based Observatory, which relies on a network of activists and residents on the ground.

It said the residents had feared the same kind of violence that saw 9,000 Syrians flee to Turkey in 24 hours in the face of the fighting in Ras al-Ain.

Derbassiye, northeast of Ras al-Ain, sits on the border with Turkey and is home to a small border crossing.

Tall Tamr is located at a strategic crossroads. The road from provincial capital Hasakeh to Ras al-Ain meets the region's main east-west highway at the town.

Government forces now control just two major cities in the province, Hasakeh itself and the far northeastern border main Kurdish town of Qamishli, the Observatory said.

Copyright ©, respective author or news agency, AFP | Ekurd.net

 

[Kurdistani4ever]

We are coming for the greater Kurdistan, town by town, city by city

 

[ima]

We are coming for the greater Kurdistan, town by town, city by city

"We" as in you? From the comfort of your home in Europe?

Or are you just going to colour a map town by town...?

 

[ima]

we have pkk giving hell to turkey in occupied kurdish region .

and stop this BS line you keep repeating, there are over half a million turks in diaspora who already have a country, so hush hush troll.

Ima only has three things to say:

1) Fuck chessekurds and chesseKurdistan

2) Are/were you busy f*cking goats?

3) Your a pussy hiding in Europe

Obviously the IQ up there is'nt in perfect shape

You ARE a pussy hiding in Europe.

I said CheeseKurds can have Syria, Iraq, and then when you take Iran, we'll talk Turkey. Although I might have said fuck you, you pussy, for hiding in Europe.

CheeseKurds do seem to have a high number of goats per capita, maybe the highest in the world?

 

[Kurdistani4ever]

DIYARBAKIR, Turkey's Kurdish region,— A Turkish military helicopter crashed Saturday in the southeastern Kurdish city of Siirt, killing all 17 troops on board, local officials said.

An investigation was ongoing to determine why the Sikorsky chopper went down, Siirt province governor Ahmet Aydin said.

The provincial governor, Ahmet Aydin, blamed the crash on heavy fog and ruled out an attack by the rebel group.

"The weather during the transportation (of troops) was bad. There was extreme rain. The helicopter crashed into rocks because of the fog," Aydin said in televised statements. "The incident was the result of a crash and any kind of an attack is out of the question."

The helicopter might have hit a hill or a rock outcropping due to stormy weather in the area, according to Turkish media.

The helicopter was transporting troops to Siirt's Pervari district, where the Turkish army has been engaged in a land operation against Kurdish rebels for three days, security sources told AFP.

President Abdullah Gul said the soldiers were on their way "to help their friends" in an operation against the rebels who have escalated attacks in recent months, adding the incident would not deter Turkey from its determination to fight the rebels.

Last month a Sikorsky crashed in southeastern Diyarbakir province (northern Kurdistan) after it hit power lines, killing one soldier and wounding seven.

Since it was established in 1984, the PKK has been fighting the Turkish state, which still denies the constitutional existence of Kurds, to establish a Kurdish state in the south east of the country. By 2012, more than 45,000 people have since been killed.

But now its aim is the creation an autonomous region and more cultural rights for ethnic Kurds who constitute the greatest minority in Turkey. A large Turkey's Kurdish community, numbering to 23 million, openly sympathise with PKK rebels.

The PKK wants constitutional recognition for the Kurds, regional self-governance and Kurdish-language education in schools.

PKK's demands included releasing PKK detainees, lifting the ban on education in Kurdish, paving the way for an autonomous democrat Kurdish system within Turkey, reducing pressure on the detained PKK leader Abdullah Öcalan, stopping military action against the Kurdish party and recomposing the Turkish constitution.

The rebels have scaled back their demands for more political autonomy for the Kurds.

Turkey refuses to recognize its Kurdish population as a distinct minority. It has allowed some cultural rights such as limited broadcasts in the Kurdish language and private Kurdish language courses with the prodding of the European Union, but Kurdish politicians say the measures fall short of their expectations.


Copyright ©, respective author or news agency, AFP | AP | Ekurd.net | Agencies

 

[Kurdistani4ever]

The ancient kurdish medes empire. And yes, this was way before the occupiers arrived. Long before turks, arabs and even persians.

 

[Meathead]

The ancient kurdish medes empire. And yes, this was way before the occupiers arrived. Long before turks, arabs and even persians.

By your map and reasoning, Mongolia should stretch from Korea south to Vietnam and all the way to what you think is Kurdistan.