Cultural Genocide, the Natural Byproduct of the Unnatural Turkish Genocidal Instinct

[Gavur]

Kurds I met are very easy people to make friends with especially when theres a Turk near by.
The sick thing is the ones that live with Turks still deny them being a Kurd
Us Armenians can identfy with that
Why would a Kurd identfy with the oppresor Turk?

[Soorp Asdvadz]

What do you mean by indentify?

[Kharpert]

Some Kurds consider themselves to be similar to Turks.

[Gavur]

being opressed

[Soorp Asdvadz]

I see...Now grant it, being from America I have no knowledge practically whatsoever about the situations that go on in Armenia, but I take it that the Kurds shouldn't consider themselves Turks? What am I, as an Armenian, supposed to feel about this?

[Gavur]

Kurds are going through opression,discramination and massacres
Armenians can identify with that
And I suggest never put down your arms like we did
Dont sell out the cause of Independence

I remember as a kid in Turkey I used to read about some Kurdish heroes evading capture for a long time like Kocero.hamido,Hasharo etc.

[Soorp Asdvadz]

Interesting...

[Gavur]

yeah in the Turkish press they were portrayed as Turkish bandits in the mountains but they were Kurds so Turks until recently portrayed Kurdish freedom fighters as mountain Turks!
But today with U.S. backing they are calling them terrorists

[maral_m79]

I see...Now grant it, being from America I have no knowledge practically whatsoever about the situations that go on in Armenia, but I take it that the Kurds shouldn't consider themselves Turks? What am I, as an Armenian, supposed to feel about this?

Descrimination in Turkey is one of the obvious characteristic features of all times ...
When the Rep. was founded 1923, and in order to make it unified Ataturk decided that whoever lives in Turkey is a Turk ( from Turkey, not ethnically I mean) ... Identification of people was not based on their ethnicity although people all know who those ethnicities are, therefore, many people were incited to adopt Turkish names... and dump their ethnically identified family names (specially Armenian orphans or young survivors).

Few months ago, I watched an interview with the former PM (Suleman Demirl), when the interviewr asked him about "Kurds and Kurdish issue" , Demirl brazenly said "There are NO Muslim minorities in Turkey". In the terms of Turkish Laws, KURDS DO NOT EXIST.. They are Muslim Mountain Turks.

As for Armenians and Greek and other Non-Muslim minorities in Turkey today, they were not granted special treatment by Turkish gov.s recognition of their ethnicity... Turkish gov. since Ataturk WAS FORCED to recognize those minorities in the treaty of Lausane ...

Or else, Armenians would've been assimilated today in Turkey, due to the authoritarian regimes that consequently ruled Turkey.

Maybe someone who lived in US or Europ his/her entire life would find this kind of opression shockingly strange, but this is something very normal in the third-world- countires, and middle east !

Democracy, and tolerance exist only on papers, not in real life !

[Kharpert]

But today with U.S. backing they are calling them terrorists.

Keep in mind that this is the Bush Administration, which will call anything and anybody a terrorist.