So say the Kurds, a people without a nation against whom all men's hands are turned. This week, the charismatic Kurdish rebel leader, Abdullah Ocalan, was kidnapped by Turkish commandos in Nairobi, Kenya, where he had sought refuge in the Greek Embassy, and flown to Turkey to stand trial.
Turkey has no intellligence capabilities in East Africa.
The US, and Turkey's new strategic ally, Israel, both maintain important intelligence posts in Nairobi. Israel's army and intellignece service have been training Turkish forces in anti-guerrilla warfare and interrogation techniques.