Wednesday, March 11, 2009

Education in Kurdish is not Possible

Mr. Erdogan, a prime minister, keeps bringing up Turks in Germany as a justification that Kurds should not have their basic right of using their native language. He says the Turks living in Germany don't have right to have education in their native language. Well, Mr. Erdogan, as someone who complains about imperialism, you should be aware of a few things.
  • The Turks in Germany are migrant workers. Nobody moved them there by force. They went willingly. As the saying goes in Turkey, "the guest shall eat whatever he gets, not what he expects".
  • The Kurds in Turkey are home. Those lands have been their home for thousands of years. They are indigenous to those lands. If anything, Turks arrived much, much later and since 1923 they are trying to impose their rules on their landlords. Hypocritical, isn't it?
Your party members talk about how many Kurds live in Izmir and Istanbul and show that as an example of "equality". You kick people out of their homes, raze their villages, migrate them by force, and then turn around and say how nice, Kurds are free to go wherever they want. How come we kick you out of your house, confiscate all your belongings and set you free to go wherever you want? As the defender of "mazlums" how come you didn't say a word to the Governor of Trabzon province who treated Kurdish seasonal workers like second class citizens? That governor of yours was demanding "travel papers". Hypocritical, isn't it?

So, since we started talking about hypocrisy let's come to the issue of Kurdish names and the banned letters of q, w, and x (for Kurds). A trademark is official and a detergent named Mintax has been in Turkey for ages produced by HES Kimya A.Ş. I wonder what you would say about the trim of vehicles branded as "Lux". Even your European friends don't know how to defend certain things you say. They want you to be the energy gateway (a glorified term for a mosquito's proboscis) for them, but I am sure they are aware of the fact that unless Kurds agree, their proboscis can't go deep enough to feed them. What a role for someone to assume!

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