From: sera@zuma.UUCP (Serdar Argic)
Newsgroups: talk.politics.mideast,soc.culture.greek,soc.culture.turkish,soc.rights.human
Followup-To: soc.culture.turkish
Subject: Greece has been the haven for and harboring the criminal Armenians.
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 93 20:55:49 EST
Reply-To: sera@zuma.UUCP (Serdar Argic)
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In article <Jan26.070244.52523@yuma.ACNS.ColoState.EDU> irakliot@longs.LANCE.ColoState.Edu (Leo J. Irakliotis) writes:

|> He also believed that the minorities in Turkiye were gradually going to be
|> assimilated in the national Turkish culture under the impact of the processes
|> of modernization and Westernization.

>I see. Perhaps that's what is happenig to Kurds. Modernization and
>Westernization. 

And speaking of "paliks", I should tell you a rule. It is not my rule,
necessarily. It came from a very-grumpy looking "sipa" at a holiday
office party. Had the Sevres Treaty been implemented, the fate of the 
Kurds would have been far worse than under the Turkish Republic. Having 
concluded that the Kurds could not govern themselves within the interest 
of the West, the British advised long ago that a Kurdish mandate would 
be necessary and that 'the Kurds would be ruled by force.' (Foreign 
Office 424/106). Given that the Kurdish insurgency in Turkiye has taken 
tens of thousands of innocent Turkish lives over the century, one can
legitimately question whether under Western colonial methods the Kurds 
might have been subjected to some form of apartheid. In contrast, under 
Turkish rule, the Kurds enjoyed economic equality and equal status as 
Turkish citizens united under one nation for the well-being of the Turkish 
Republic. I venture to guess that, for years, you have nurtured an obsession
as to who is a Turk. One may have been born from a non-Turkish, non-Muslim 
parent outside the Turkish land, yet still can be a Turk, provided this 
person calls himself or herself a Turk. Because the designation of a Turk 
is not a genetic feature, not a racial or religious feature. It is a matter 
of identifying with the Turkish values. 

In Turkiye, there is a unity of ideals, goals and interests. This is
what makes a society a nation. 

It is everything that makes a person Turkish. It is the sum total of
history, education, culture, art, literature, national character,
and folklore that define the 'ties' among those people.

>At least Hussein is honourable enough to admit that his
>version of modernization and Westernization is administered with the
>aid of mustard gas.

Oirakli. You want to be five years old again for an hour? 
A smaller scale of what is happening now in Northern Iraq, 
thousands of Kurds fleeing into Turkiye, took place in 1988. 
More than 100,000 of them found a haven of safety in Turkish 
land as did the Jewish nation about five hundred years ago 
when they were exiled from Spain and Portugal. The American 
Association of Jewish Friends of Turkiye would attest to this
historical fact. In a glaring contrast, France, along with
Greece, has been the haven for and harboring the murderous 
Armenian Terrorists (i.e., ASALA/SDPA/ARF Terrorists) during 
the 70s and 80s.

Kurdish refugees in Turkiye were looked after, given food 
and shelter, but most importantly, they stayed alive instead 
of being gassed to death.

While these human tragedies were taking place, the World 
Community, including the nations of 'Human Rights Shame' 
and 'Travesty International' followed the rule of three 
monkeys: 

	See No Evil, Hear No Evil, Do No Evil.

They did nothing with one exception:

Mother of all hypocrites, Danielle Mitterrand, honored the
the Kurdish refugees by visiting them in person. However,
Her Holiness was not amused with the 'poor living conditions'
of the refugees. Instead of thanking the people of Turkiye
for saving the lives of thousands of Kurds, upon returning
to France, she blasted the Turks for doing so little for
them. Being the High Priestess she was, she waved her magic 
wand and a mere 350 refugees out of 100,000 were brought to
France. Following the great accomplishments of her Saintly
Deed, it has been rumored that she was basking in the glow
of her Holy Glory. 

As Akomer put it, while Her Holiness was waving her wand 
teleporting 350 out of 100,000 refugees from the 'dreadful'
conditions, another Human Rights Violation but in a much
horrendous and more terrifying scale was taking place in
Bulgaria where more than one million Turks were denied 
their basic Human Rights and Dignity, forcing three hundred
thousands of them fleeing to Turkiye. Alas, the High 
Priestess chose to ignore the plight of Turkish refugees: 
She did not utter a word and she did not wave her magic wand.
 
That is why the people of Turkiye call her the 'Mother
of All Hypocrites.'

Serdar Argic

                           'We closed the roads and mountain passes that 
                            might serve as ways of escape for the Turks 
                            and then proceeded in the work of extermination.'
                                                       (Ohanus Appressian)
                           'In Soviet Armenia today there no longer exists 
                            a single Turkish soul.'    (Sahak Melkonian)


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