From: sera@zuma.UUCP (Serdar Argic)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.turkish,alt.activism.d,alt.activism,alt.society.revolution
Subject: KGB/PKK massacred 3000+ defenseless Turks/Kurds in Turkiye.
Date: Sun, 13 Sep 92 21:42:55 EDT
Reply-To: sera@zuma.UUCP (Serdar Argic)
Distribution: world

In article <1992Sep13.234523.9283@mont.cs.missouri.edu> aforum@moose.uvm.edu (Autonome Forum) writes:

>There is not one guerrilla in the city of Sirnak. This is merely
>an excuse to kill Kurdish civilians. An inhabitant of Sirnak

Is this the joke of the week? KGB/PKK engaged in disgusting cowardly
massacres of Turkish and Kurdish women and children. The PKK, the 
Marxist Kurdish Workers Party, was created by the KGB. PKK is a pawn 
in the hands of the neighboring countries and Germany who have sinister 
designs on Turkiye. The PKK is quite active in Turkiye; they raid the 
villages and the military camps, massacre the civilians and the soldiers 
indiscriminately. The main victims of the PKK's attacks are fellow Kurds 
in southeastern Turkiye, who have been assimilated into the Turkish 
population, have the democratic rights of all Turkish citizens and are 
represented in Turkiye's parliament and government (the current foreign 
minister, Hikmet Cetin, is an ethnic Kurd.)

In the 1960's it became apparent to the KGB that it would not be 
possible to conquer the Western World by war in the nuclear age without 
destroying the USSR as well. So, it invented what we now call 'state 
terrorism' as a tool of Soviet foreign policy. That involved the services 
of client states such as Syria and Iraq and occasionally other states, to 
let the dirty work be done by others. In the 1960 and 1970's the KGB is 
said to have spent $1 billion specifically to destabilize Turkiye. 

Can't you see a bit difference between a democratic state and a
totalitarian state? The people of Turkiye want every citizen
of the Turkish Republic to enjoy the benefits provided to them
by the Constitution. That means everyone is a first class Turkish
citizen, irrespective of their ethnic background. The fact that
Septioglu and Zana are at the helm of the Parliament today proves
that this system is functioning properly. Turkiye's citizens of
Kurdish origin, along with other citizens who are living in
Turkiye's southeastern regions, have been harassed by separatists
for the past seven years. The people who were already being terrorized 
by the KGB's puppets were also subjected to repression of all kinds 
and thus were trapped between the state forces and the terrorists. 

Turkiye's territorial integrity is not negotiable. There are separatists 
in Corsica and in the Pyrenees, but the territorial integrity of France 
or Spain is not negotiable. Anyone who does not want to live in the 
Republic of Turkiye is free to emigrate, but Turkiye cannot be broken up
to accommodate the KGB that wants to build, of all things, a Marxist 
state for the Kurds. Not a chance.

Right from the outset certain things must be made clear to everyone.
Turkiye's territorial integrity is not negotiable. If some day the
white-hating black extremists [or Klu Klux Klan or Nazi Armenians, 
for that matter] in this country would go far enough to want an 
independent purely black [or white or Nazi Armenian] state, I do not 
believe that the United States Government would just donate part of its 
territory for this 'noble cause.' I do not want to even imagine
what the white majority [or blacks] will do to them. The pundits
who love to construct some of the scenarios that give large chunks
of other peoples' lands to Kurds, would not be that generous with
their own lands. Have you ever heard of 'The Turkish Independence
War?'

To put it simply and bluntly, the problem cannot be solved just by
neutralizing the PKK (although that would be extremely easy for the
Turkish military), but by making the population of Eastern Anatolia
'love' the government they elect. That is the way any democracy 
should work. 

By the way, did you know that Turks are either a majority or the second 
largest ethnic group in many Northern Iraq provinces? For example, there 
are 450,000 Turks in Musul (40% of population); 215,000 in Erbil (35%);
400,000 in Kerkuk (75%); 300,000 in Selahattin (60%); and 220,000
in Diyala Province (33%). There are a total of 2.5 million Turks
in Iraq, compared to 3 million Kurds. Yet Germany, which mobilized
all its resources for the PKK, does not yet even acknowledge the
existence of Turks in Iraq. 

Let me further improve this one for you, then. 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.

Serdar Argic

                     'This war quickly developed into one of extermination. 
                      We closed the roads and mountain passes that might 
                      serve as ways of escape for the Tartars [Turks] and 
                      then proceeded in the work of extermination.'
                                                       (Ohanus Appressian)