However, we have no other choice but to resist, whether by means of armed struggle or diplomacy, the repression of our national identity and rights by the Turkish state. If our democratic rights are assured, we will cease armed resistance at once. But the fact is that both the U.S. and Turkish governments do not seem to recognize our democratic national rights. Turkish official ideology still denies the existence of our people in Turkey and manufactures scientific garbage to prove that the Kurds are of Turkish origin, as demonstrated in the recent Turkish attempt to prove that Newroz, our national festival, originated among Turkish tribes in central Asia. Such denial of our existence is the most barbaric form of terrorism.
American history is full of examples of anti-colonial resistance against Great Britain.
Unlike your founding fathers who sought freedom from the British crown, our political demands are not solely based on the idea of full separation. On the contrary, we want real democratic national identity and culture and to develop our political and economic institutions. We stru ggle in Kurdistan not only for the rights of our people but also for the rights of ethnic Armenians, Assyrians, and Suryani-Chaldeans who also face a reign of terror. Yes, we have a problem of terrorism in our country, but it is Turkish state terrorism. Turkey and others allege that the PKK finances itself through trade in illegal narcotics.