Shame on Barzani
BLUE WOMAN | 11.04.2007 18:13 | Anti-militarism | History | Iraq
Massud Barzani, the Kurdish feudal war-lord and collaborator of the occupiers of Iraq, the US an UK, continues to deny the rights of the 3 million Turkmens of Iraq (representing 12% of the Iraqi population) by putting their number at a ridiculous
'few thousands'.
'few thousands'.
Massud Barzani said in an interview broadcast on Saturday with Al-Arabiya television “If they (the Turks) interfere in Kerkuk over just thousands of Turkmens then we will take action for the 30 million Kurds in Turkey”.
Shame on Barzani, who reduces the number of Turkmens in Kerkuk (Turkmens’ capital city and main cultural centre) to “just thousands” thereby denying the reality that Kerkuk has always been a city with a Turkmen majority before the illegal occupation of Iraq by the US and UK who, to reward their Kurdish collaborators Barzani and Talabani, have allowed their armed militias to invade and occupy the Turkmen region of Iraq ‘TURMENELI’ beginning with their capital city Kerkuk.
Since then, Kurdish militias with the blessing of the US occupiers have imposed their hegemony not only on the Turkmen region but on the entire north of Iraq, as if Turkmens, Arabs, and Kaldo-Assyrians did not exist.
Since April 2003 the Kurds, after occupying the Turkmen region, have illegally brought and installed over 700,000 Kurds in Kerkuk to change the demographics of this historically Turkmen city and claim that Kerkuk is a Kurdish city to be annexed to their autonomous region.
What has Barzani done with the hundreds of thousand of Turkmens of Kerkuk? Has he already expelled them, “Kurdified” them by force, or exterminated them?
Shame on this backward, chauvinist and corrupt Kurdish feudal war lord, who having been brought up and fed by racist zionist ideology denies the existence of the hundreds of thousands of Turkmens in Kerkuk and the rights of the 3 million Turkmens of Iraq to be considered as the country’s third main ethnic community, with the same rights as the Arabs and Kurds of Iraq.
Time has come for all Iraqi patriots to stand up against the backward Kurdish war lords whose objective is and has always been to weaken and divide Iraq.
The Arab and Muslim leaders must wake up and realize that the US-UK and their allies are in the process of creating a “new entity” in the Middle East (led by Kurdish war lords such as Barzani) similar but more dangerous for the Arab and Muslim world than the one they created in Palestine in 1948 .
The Arab media should know that Iraq is composed of Arabs, Kurds and Turkmens and they should give the Turkmens, who have always defended the unity of Iraq, the opportunity to express their views on Iraq and Iraqi policies, instead of always promoting backward Kurdish war lords’ views and policies which consist in denying the existence of the Turkmens in Iraq as a community, in dividing Iraq and harming its Arab and Muslim neighbours.
P.S.
Barzani's assertion that Kurds are 30 millions in Turkey is also false.
Shame on Barzani, who reduces the number of Turkmens in Kerkuk (Turkmens’ capital city and main cultural centre) to “just thousands” thereby denying the reality that Kerkuk has always been a city with a Turkmen majority before the illegal occupation of Iraq by the US and UK who, to reward their Kurdish collaborators Barzani and Talabani, have allowed their armed militias to invade and occupy the Turkmen region of Iraq ‘TURMENELI’ beginning with their capital city Kerkuk.
Since then, Kurdish militias with the blessing of the US occupiers have imposed their hegemony not only on the Turkmen region but on the entire north of Iraq, as if Turkmens, Arabs, and Kaldo-Assyrians did not exist.
Since April 2003 the Kurds, after occupying the Turkmen region, have illegally brought and installed over 700,000 Kurds in Kerkuk to change the demographics of this historically Turkmen city and claim that Kerkuk is a Kurdish city to be annexed to their autonomous region.
What has Barzani done with the hundreds of thousand of Turkmens of Kerkuk? Has he already expelled them, “Kurdified” them by force, or exterminated them?
Shame on this backward, chauvinist and corrupt Kurdish feudal war lord, who having been brought up and fed by racist zionist ideology denies the existence of the hundreds of thousands of Turkmens in Kerkuk and the rights of the 3 million Turkmens of Iraq to be considered as the country’s third main ethnic community, with the same rights as the Arabs and Kurds of Iraq.
Time has come for all Iraqi patriots to stand up against the backward Kurdish war lords whose objective is and has always been to weaken and divide Iraq.
The Arab and Muslim leaders must wake up and realize that the US-UK and their allies are in the process of creating a “new entity” in the Middle East (led by Kurdish war lords such as Barzani) similar but more dangerous for the Arab and Muslim world than the one they created in Palestine in 1948 .
The Arab media should know that Iraq is composed of Arabs, Kurds and Turkmens and they should give the Turkmens, who have always defended the unity of Iraq, the opportunity to express their views on Iraq and Iraqi policies, instead of always promoting backward Kurdish war lords’ views and policies which consist in denying the existence of the Turkmens in Iraq as a community, in dividing Iraq and harming its Arab and Muslim neighbours.
P.S.
Barzani's assertion that Kurds are 30 millions in Turkey is also false.
BLUE WOMAN
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13.04.2007 20:58
I've read as much as I can tonight as I still don't understand the Turkomens links with Turkey, maybe you could explain it to me ?
I can't find any evidence of the Barzani quote on the internet in English except for your report. Do you have a link to it, even if it needs translation ?
I know wikipedia isn't infallible but it does seem to approximate your numbers.
“If they (the Turks) interfere in Kerkuk over just thousands of Turkmens then we will take action for the 30 million Kurds in Turkey”.
Turkmen in Iraq are estimated from 222,000 to 2,500,000. According to Human Rights Watch, from the 1991 Gulf War until 2003, the former Iraqi government systematically expelled an estimated 120,000 Kurds, Turkmens and some Assyrians from Kirkuk and other towns and villages in this oil-rich region.
"Barzani's assertion that Kurds are 30 millions in Turkey is also false."
Turkeys population is estimated at 72,600,000, of which the Kurds are at most 14,520,000.
Oh I found something :
US sticks to hands-off policy on Kirkuk after Barzani speech tension
US Ambassador Wilson avoids comment on whether it’s right time for Kirkuk referendum, says it is an internal matter for Iraqis to decide on how to determine the fate of the city and not something for outsiders to dictate
The United States has declared that it is still committed to a policy of no interference on whether a contested referendum on the status of the oil-rich Iraqi city of Kirkuk should be held this year as planned, after new tension emerged between Turkey and the Iraqi Kurds over its fate. "The US view is that, at the end of the day, this is an issue for Iraqis to decide for themselves," US Ambassador to Turkey Ross Wilson said in an interview on Monday. "It is not something for outsiders to dictate, and especially to dictate in a public way."
Massoud Barzani, president of the semi-autonomous Kurdish region in northern Iraq, said in remarks broadcast on Saturday that the Iraqi Kurds would stir unrest in Turkey's Kurdish provinces in southeastern Anatolia if Ankara intervenes in the process over determining the fate of Kirkuk, which he claims is part of "Kurdistan." The remarks infuriated the Turkish government, which announced it had sent a note of protest to Baghdad on Monday. Government spokesman Cemil Çiçek, speaking after a Cabinet meeting on Monday, said Ankara had a legitimate interest in developments in northern Iraq because the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) militants used the region as a springboard to launch attacks on military and civilian targets inside Turkey.
Turkey demands that the referendum on Kirkuk, slated for the end of 2007, should be postponed, complaining that huge numbers of Kurds have migrated to the city in past years in an attempt to change the demographic structure of the city ahead of the vote.
Wilson said he did not know whether the referendum would take place as planned, given several shifts in target dates so far in Iraq. "I don't know if it's going to take place by then or not. There are lots of target dates and timeframes built into the Constitution and Iraqi legislation and political decisions that have slipped, and in some cases slipped quite significantly. Whether that's going to be the fate of this particular provision or not I do not know," he said when asked whether it was the right time for a referendum given the tension surrounding the issue.“I do know there is a lively conversation going on in Iraq about Kirkuk, about the wisdom of going forward with this referendum, what should be the timing, what would be the effect if it goes ahead, either on schedule or more or less on schedule.”
Commenting on Barzani’s remarks, Wilson repeated the US position that such statements were not helpful. “This kind of rhetoric is not useful, it’s not helpful. We need to lower the temperature, lower the rhetoric and work on these practical problems,” he said. According to the US diplomat, there are several practical issues on which Turkey and Iraq can work together, including the problem of the PKK presence in Kurdish-controlled northern Iraq.
He also repeated that the US was committed to taking action with respect to the PKK presence in Iraq, without elaborating on what measures could be taken. “There is still work to do, and we recognize that,” he said.
He also emphasized that the US was committed to supporting the existing borders in the region: “The US strongly supports the territorial integrity of Turkey; we support the existing boundaries in this area. Any influence that moves toward changes in that respect is not helpful,” he said.
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