Yeah..By not respond on calls for solutions and laying down arms from people that demand their human rights and have had their land taken away, every f***** right you can ever imagine from being jailed for protesting against being jailed, clubbed to death just as the Armenians were, for protesting against having their rights taken away, to even their right to their identity! What we see is crimes being committed against the Kurds! Crimes by Turkey and every one else that support such crimes taking place, just as it´s been since the early 20s it´s still a slow genocidal "war-fare" in every aspect! Not to respond on such calls IS criminal, against common taken rules, against universal laws and every other law!
What the hell do you take us for?
Friday, October 31, 2008
So...Maliki should protect the Iraqi youths! Not expose them to be used in others interests to expand their terror and oppression!
As a few psychopaths have dehumanized every one they belivies they can use for their own purposes to expand their crimes against other people and indoctrinate them so they gets strong wills "to get the job done". As was in the case of Mohammad Hossein Fahmideh. A thirteen-year-old boy who was pushed by the Islamic Revolutionary Guards commanders wearing a suicide belt, to lie beneath an Iraqi tank advancing in the southwestern city of Khorramshahr in 1981.
Iran will support Iraq in youth affairs
Ali-Akbari Visiting Iranian vice president for youth affairs underlined Iran's support to the Iraqi government in all fields, especially in issues pertaining to the youth. In a meeting with Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri Al-Maliki, Mohammad Javad Ali-Akbari appreciated Iraqi government's efforts to solve the problems pertaining to the youth at this juncture of the country's history. Nouri Al-Maliki underscored his government's resolve in strengthening ties with Iran in all arenas. Building a healthy community calls for investment on its children and youth, he said.
Yeah..Like the Iraqi football youth team and every where else they can expand their indoctrinations?
"Solve the problems pertaining to the youth at this juncture of the country's history."
Well..It´s a little to late for Mohammad Hossein Fahmideh for that..Just as every one else being stupid enough to take their lives and others for a few psychopaths own purposes and crimes against people all over the region and beyond! Isn´t it!
People are not giving their lives for the safety of Iraq against suiciders, Hezbollah and every other f***** idiot which are trained in Istanbul, Syria and Iran and with terror and crimes against the Iraqi people and the Kurds, use other people to kill themselves and every one else in their own interests, just to get in and establish another "suicide fabric" like the one they have in Gaza, to be used the same way as every other idiots to suicider so a few psychopaths can expand their f***** oppression and crimes against humanity with more suicide-"fabrics"!
People should know what this whole collective-Suicide-genocide is all about by now!
Iran will support Iraq in youth affairs
Ali-Akbari Visiting Iranian vice president for youth affairs underlined Iran's support to the Iraqi government in all fields, especially in issues pertaining to the youth. In a meeting with Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri Al-Maliki, Mohammad Javad Ali-Akbari appreciated Iraqi government's efforts to solve the problems pertaining to the youth at this juncture of the country's history. Nouri Al-Maliki underscored his government's resolve in strengthening ties with Iran in all arenas. Building a healthy community calls for investment on its children and youth, he said.
Yeah..Like the Iraqi football youth team and every where else they can expand their indoctrinations?
"Solve the problems pertaining to the youth at this juncture of the country's history."
Well..It´s a little to late for Mohammad Hossein Fahmideh for that..Just as every one else being stupid enough to take their lives and others for a few psychopaths own purposes and crimes against people all over the region and beyond! Isn´t it!
People are not giving their lives for the safety of Iraq against suiciders, Hezbollah and every other f***** idiot which are trained in Istanbul, Syria and Iran and with terror and crimes against the Iraqi people and the Kurds, use other people to kill themselves and every one else in their own interests, just to get in and establish another "suicide fabric" like the one they have in Gaza, to be used the same way as every other idiots to suicider so a few psychopaths can expand their f***** oppression and crimes against humanity with more suicide-"fabrics"!
People should know what this whole collective-Suicide-genocide is all about by now!
And it will sure not work any longer with using PKK the same way!
PKK are not some "Talibans" or a "movement from a desert island" which agenda is to impose some religious beliefs in others interests to oppress people and expand their dictatorship! They represents the Kurdish people which land was taken away and being committed the most horrific crimes against ever since and are demanding their f***** basic human rights! Which Turkey have used to be able to keep their terror state and a slow genocidal "war-fare" and together with the internationally community refuse to respond on calls for solutions and laying down arms in your own f***** interests! YOU are the terrorists and criminals using PKK for crimes against the Kurdish people in your own interests! Not PKK!
Jirga and drones..
DERA ISMAIL KHAN, Pakistan (Reuters) – A suspected pilotless U.S. drone fired missiles at a house in the South Waziristan region on the Afghan border on Friday, in the second such attack of the day. "Two guided missiles were fired at a house in the center of Wana," a district government official. Another government official said several militants were in the house for dinner at the time of the strike.
KHAR: A Tehreek-i-Taliban spokesman claimed that the group has unilaterally suspended activities in the Mamond area of Bajaur, which has been a stronghold of the militia. ‘Yes, Taliban have unilaterally suspended their activities after holding negotiations with the local elders, but it doesn’t mean that we have surrendered our weapons,’ the TTP spokesman Maulvi Omar told Dawn by phone from an unspecified location on Friday. He said that if the army entered Mamond, the Taliban would not resist, adding they would only retaliate if they were attacked. He also said that the Taliban had assured local elders that they would not clash with security forces and were ready for talks with the government. Maulvi Omar said that despite assurances by the elders, security forces were still targeting Taliban positions in Mamond and Charmang areas.
ISLAMABAD: Tekrik-e Taliban Pakistan has expressed its readiness to hold negotiations with the government. This was stated by TTP spokesman, Maulvi Omar while talking to Khyber News today. He said that they have never refused to hold talks for solution of problems. He said that they would never abandon the path of negotiations because problems can only be resolved through talks. Maulvi Omar said that even the United States has come the conclusion that problems can never be resolved through the use of force.
And stop this f***** "Taliban thing"! "Taliban" is just another word for others use of others for their own purposes! Putting such names on people is taking away peoples true identity to indoctrinate them and used them just as another collective-genocide-Suicide and ethnically cleanings! Just as it´s done to the Palestinian people with banners, colors and 200 factions in some huge Palestinian scout camp! There was never a people called "Talibans" anywhere in history! Get that! Just as the "Muhajideen´s"..The real "muhajideen´s where mass murdered by the Iranian regime! The other "Muhjaideen´s" were used in U.S. interests to fight Russia, which after that were "taken over" and indoctrinated by others for their own purposes and interests, to expand in the region and eliminate every other oppositions in mass murders, oppression and ethnically cleanings! Get that! Ones and for all!
KHAR: A Tehreek-i-Taliban spokesman claimed that the group has unilaterally suspended activities in the Mamond area of Bajaur, which has been a stronghold of the militia. ‘Yes, Taliban have unilaterally suspended their activities after holding negotiations with the local elders, but it doesn’t mean that we have surrendered our weapons,’ the TTP spokesman Maulvi Omar told Dawn by phone from an unspecified location on Friday. He said that if the army entered Mamond, the Taliban would not resist, adding they would only retaliate if they were attacked. He also said that the Taliban had assured local elders that they would not clash with security forces and were ready for talks with the government. Maulvi Omar said that despite assurances by the elders, security forces were still targeting Taliban positions in Mamond and Charmang areas.
ISLAMABAD: Tekrik-e Taliban Pakistan has expressed its readiness to hold negotiations with the government. This was stated by TTP spokesman, Maulvi Omar while talking to Khyber News today. He said that they have never refused to hold talks for solution of problems. He said that they would never abandon the path of negotiations because problems can only be resolved through talks. Maulvi Omar said that even the United States has come the conclusion that problems can never be resolved through the use of force.
And stop this f***** "Taliban thing"! "Taliban" is just another word for others use of others for their own purposes! Putting such names on people is taking away peoples true identity to indoctrinate them and used them just as another collective-genocide-Suicide and ethnically cleanings! Just as it´s done to the Palestinian people with banners, colors and 200 factions in some huge Palestinian scout camp! There was never a people called "Talibans" anywhere in history! Get that! Just as the "Muhajideen´s"..The real "muhajideen´s where mass murdered by the Iranian regime! The other "Muhjaideen´s" were used in U.S. interests to fight Russia, which after that were "taken over" and indoctrinated by others for their own purposes and interests, to expand in the region and eliminate every other oppositions in mass murders, oppression and ethnically cleanings! Get that! Ones and for all!
The Kurdish people are fighting for their rights and democracy
Pro-Kurdish party suggests federation
MORENAMIK DURUKANANKARA – Milliyet
The controversial suggestion by the jailed leader of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party, or PKK, to divide Turkey into regions and give broad powers to locally elected governors was presented to deputies by the pro-Kurdish Democratic Society Party, or DTP, this week.The 64-page brochure, titled “Democratic Autonomy Project” and printed in Turkish, English and Kurdish, proposes Turkey be divided into 20 to 25 regions with each region given the power to designate its own symbols and colors.The brochure was printed in Diyarbakýr in the Southeast and was mailed to deputies, ministers and embassies so that it arrived at its destination on the eve of the Oct. 29 Republic Day celebrations. The project was included by the DTP in its party program last year and includes a comprehensive administrative reform of the state structure with wide-ranging powers given to local governors.The Kurdish identity and language must be protected by the Constitution, the brochure says, calling for a new and freer constitution.
The Republican People's Party, or CHP, deputy from Istanbul, Mustafa Özyürek said: “They also ask for a federation by hiding behind democratic autonomy,” he said. He said the escalation of terrorism by the PKK was aimed at creating another state. Özyürek said the recent street violence in the Southeast showed the DTP was not content in merely preparing such documents but also wanted to implement their suggestions through violent means.
While Turkey supported by the U.S., Israel and the internationally community refuse to respond on calls for solutions and laying down arms WITH NO JUSTIFICATIONS WHAT SO EVER! And works against democracy, human rights, international laws and crimes against the Kurdish people in one of this planets biggest state of terror, and horrific crimes through history, supported with arms by Israel, the U.S. and Germany!
After destabilization into Iraq with orchestrated efforts at the expense of the Kurdish peoples rights and lives, displacement of people and destruction of their live hood and environment, crimes against free speech and basic human rights, terrorist being trained and sent into Iraq, Turkey use the very same violence they have been a part of create as another tool to work against democracy and get the only Kurdish party banned as terrorists!
While Israel sends weaponry and the U.S. and Germany have supported Turkey with arms to their teeth's for decades, "against terrorism and for democracy". While the Kurdish people have been occupied for decades with the most horrific crimes against a whole people and a border that is used by a few psychopaths in Iran to spread death patrols, terrorise people all over the region and beyond and spreading their indoctrination and destroying youths and for weaponry to attack Israel which both Israel, the U.S. and the internationally community´s support, making every way clear and a elimination of those demanding democracy, peace and human rights, calling those being violated for terrorists and having your wars and weapon industry together with Russia against, against human rights, democracy and humanity for a few psychopaths in Iran´s own purposes!
You can very much receive what you gives! Some says: What goes around comes around, some call it Karma. Or the law of the nature, or just simple f***** COMMON SENSE! EAT your f***** weapon industry because it will not be much left with destroyed lives, destroyed waters, destroyed farmlands, while tax payers are paying for your f***** "carousel against humanity"!
And we shall believe that it was some PKK that killed Olof Palme after a "confession" in Turkey´s torture cells, while the Swedish people are taking in Kurds and the psychopaths in Iran are spreading their death and destruction together with Turkey with the help of the U.S., Israel, Russia and the internationally community´s crimes against humanity? Yeah..What was he saying REALLY?
http://voicefromnorth.blogspot.com/2008/10/blog-post_29.html
MORENAMIK DURUKANANKARA – Milliyet
The controversial suggestion by the jailed leader of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party, or PKK, to divide Turkey into regions and give broad powers to locally elected governors was presented to deputies by the pro-Kurdish Democratic Society Party, or DTP, this week.The 64-page brochure, titled “Democratic Autonomy Project” and printed in Turkish, English and Kurdish, proposes Turkey be divided into 20 to 25 regions with each region given the power to designate its own symbols and colors.The brochure was printed in Diyarbakýr in the Southeast and was mailed to deputies, ministers and embassies so that it arrived at its destination on the eve of the Oct. 29 Republic Day celebrations. The project was included by the DTP in its party program last year and includes a comprehensive administrative reform of the state structure with wide-ranging powers given to local governors.The Kurdish identity and language must be protected by the Constitution, the brochure says, calling for a new and freer constitution.
The Republican People's Party, or CHP, deputy from Istanbul, Mustafa Özyürek said: “They also ask for a federation by hiding behind democratic autonomy,” he said. He said the escalation of terrorism by the PKK was aimed at creating another state. Özyürek said the recent street violence in the Southeast showed the DTP was not content in merely preparing such documents but also wanted to implement their suggestions through violent means.
While Turkey supported by the U.S., Israel and the internationally community refuse to respond on calls for solutions and laying down arms WITH NO JUSTIFICATIONS WHAT SO EVER! And works against democracy, human rights, international laws and crimes against the Kurdish people in one of this planets biggest state of terror, and horrific crimes through history, supported with arms by Israel, the U.S. and Germany!
After destabilization into Iraq with orchestrated efforts at the expense of the Kurdish peoples rights and lives, displacement of people and destruction of their live hood and environment, crimes against free speech and basic human rights, terrorist being trained and sent into Iraq, Turkey use the very same violence they have been a part of create as another tool to work against democracy and get the only Kurdish party banned as terrorists!
While Israel sends weaponry and the U.S. and Germany have supported Turkey with arms to their teeth's for decades, "against terrorism and for democracy". While the Kurdish people have been occupied for decades with the most horrific crimes against a whole people and a border that is used by a few psychopaths in Iran to spread death patrols, terrorise people all over the region and beyond and spreading their indoctrination and destroying youths and for weaponry to attack Israel which both Israel, the U.S. and the internationally community´s support, making every way clear and a elimination of those demanding democracy, peace and human rights, calling those being violated for terrorists and having your wars and weapon industry together with Russia against, against human rights, democracy and humanity for a few psychopaths in Iran´s own purposes!
You can very much receive what you gives! Some says: What goes around comes around, some call it Karma. Or the law of the nature, or just simple f***** COMMON SENSE! EAT your f***** weapon industry because it will not be much left with destroyed lives, destroyed waters, destroyed farmlands, while tax payers are paying for your f***** "carousel against humanity"!
And we shall believe that it was some PKK that killed Olof Palme after a "confession" in Turkey´s torture cells, while the Swedish people are taking in Kurds and the psychopaths in Iran are spreading their death and destruction together with Turkey with the help of the U.S., Israel, Russia and the internationally community´s crimes against humanity? Yeah..What was he saying REALLY?
http://voicefromnorth.blogspot.com/2008/10/blog-post_29.html
Oh..A few psychopaths are enriching Uranium..
So what are they going to do with that? Eat it? Or they believe it going to solve all their problems they have managed to get themselves..And finish off what they have been working on since 1979, in a big f***** Iranian nation collective-Suicide-genocide? Because we all know that would happen if they should attack any ones with some bomb!
Well..Why don´t we kill some Kurds instead, that will solve everything, just as it have done since 1923..
Well..Why don´t we kill some Kurds instead, that will solve everything, just as it have done since 1923..
So what about those Bedouins in the winter?
Turkey interested in Israeli UAVs
Turkish Defense Minister Vecdi Gonul is in Israel for a two-day visit, the focus of which is to examine a batch of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) that Turkey is slated to acquire, Turkish officials said. According to Turkish media reports, last year Turkey began operating the medium-altitude Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) and Elbit-made Heron UAVs over northern Iraq, home to scores of Kurdish rebel bases. The drones can reportedly fly for over 30 hours at an altitude of over 32,000 feet. The UAVs were acquired by Turkey in 2005 deal worth $150 million, and are being delivered to the Turkish Defense Ministry over three years. Turkish officials said viewing the UAVs in the air was a centerpiece of Gonul's visit. Gonul met with Defense Minister Ehud Barak at the Defense Ministry in Tel Aviv on Wednesday, and the two discussed military defense cooperation between Israel and Turkey. Barak described his Turkish counterpart as a "true friend of Israel and an important Turkish leader. "For Israel, it is very important that productive relations exist, and that the ties between Israel and Turkey become deeper between in all fields," Barak said. "These ties are very important to us from a strategic and regional standpoint." Gonul was greeted at the Defense Ministry by an IDF honor guard. On Thursday, Gonul is scheduled to meet Prime Minister Ehud Olmert.
Source: J-Post
Or maybe Israel have no time for Bedouins as you are to busy with support of destabilizing Iraq with suiciders targeting Kurds and Iraqis with Turkish people in Mosul and trained suiciders in Istanbul coming through the Syrian border and arms to Hezbollah through the occupied Kurdish villages to target yourselves and U.S. soldiers in Iraq and a genocidal "war-fare", demanding parties to be banned in Kurdistan, blaming Kurdish political party for violence, clubbing 78 years old to death. Clubbing people to death in both Turkey and Syria because they protests against being bombed and killed. Killing or jailing Kurds because they protests against being killed, silence people, banning newspapers, parties and media, threaten to ban people from Internet because they writes about people being banned from Internet..etc..etc..instead of responding of solutions and laying down arms, demands for human rights from people which have been violated for decades?
"Strategic "..Yeah..keep the border open with your own arms and a genocidal "war-fare" to have Hezbollah armed through it to target yourselves! It´s very strategic! So when will the Turkish flag wave over the Temple Mount/Dome of the Rock?
What you give is what you get applies very much to Israel as well..
Turkish Defense Minister Vecdi Gonul is in Israel for a two-day visit, the focus of which is to examine a batch of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) that Turkey is slated to acquire, Turkish officials said. According to Turkish media reports, last year Turkey began operating the medium-altitude Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) and Elbit-made Heron UAVs over northern Iraq, home to scores of Kurdish rebel bases. The drones can reportedly fly for over 30 hours at an altitude of over 32,000 feet. The UAVs were acquired by Turkey in 2005 deal worth $150 million, and are being delivered to the Turkish Defense Ministry over three years. Turkish officials said viewing the UAVs in the air was a centerpiece of Gonul's visit. Gonul met with Defense Minister Ehud Barak at the Defense Ministry in Tel Aviv on Wednesday, and the two discussed military defense cooperation between Israel and Turkey. Barak described his Turkish counterpart as a "true friend of Israel and an important Turkish leader. "For Israel, it is very important that productive relations exist, and that the ties between Israel and Turkey become deeper between in all fields," Barak said. "These ties are very important to us from a strategic and regional standpoint." Gonul was greeted at the Defense Ministry by an IDF honor guard. On Thursday, Gonul is scheduled to meet Prime Minister Ehud Olmert.
Source: J-Post
Or maybe Israel have no time for Bedouins as you are to busy with support of destabilizing Iraq with suiciders targeting Kurds and Iraqis with Turkish people in Mosul and trained suiciders in Istanbul coming through the Syrian border and arms to Hezbollah through the occupied Kurdish villages to target yourselves and U.S. soldiers in Iraq and a genocidal "war-fare", demanding parties to be banned in Kurdistan, blaming Kurdish political party for violence, clubbing 78 years old to death. Clubbing people to death in both Turkey and Syria because they protests against being bombed and killed. Killing or jailing Kurds because they protests against being killed, silence people, banning newspapers, parties and media, threaten to ban people from Internet because they writes about people being banned from Internet..etc..etc..instead of responding of solutions and laying down arms, demands for human rights from people which have been violated for decades?
"Strategic "..Yeah..keep the border open with your own arms and a genocidal "war-fare" to have Hezbollah armed through it to target yourselves! It´s very strategic! So when will the Turkish flag wave over the Temple Mount/Dome of the Rock?
What you give is what you get applies very much to Israel as well..
Thursday, October 30, 2008
Yeah..Why don´t you go back to the Lebanese border instead..
Where Lebanese soldiers were targeted and after it was Brig.-Gen. 'Abd Al-Karim 'Abbas, a official in the Syrian Military intelligence who was under probe by the United Nations' tribunal investigating former Lebanese President Rafiq Al-Hariri's assassination in 2005, that was killed in car bomb..
Idiots! Try something new for ones!
Just as some people in Turkey should do, just because they're Turks which have cut off the water from people all over the region, causing suffering and destabilization and given camps and the opportunity to be harbored in northern Iraq and supplying arms to the intelligence staff in Iraq through Syria and Iran, either transported by train or in large trucks and trained people in Istanbul, at the police station headquarters in Vatan Street. In order to suffocate the Kurdish movement and to sabotage the Kirkuk Referendum, and organized several suicide attacks against Mûsil, Kirkuk, Maxmur, and Hewlêr together with suicide bombers trained in Iran and Syria and are financially supported by them. And have had your people stationed in Mûsil from day 1. Refuse to respond on calls for solutions and laying down arms, destroying peoples lives in the South of Kurdistan, spreading poison all over the land all the way to the rivers in Iraq which are not all dried up, but polluted and then blames DTP for all unrest! Instead of respond on calls for solutions and laying down arms, get the hell out of Kurdish villages from Diyarbakýr to Van and the rest of Kurdistan, respect human rights, universal laws and every other law and solve your energy need with the Kurds and the Iraqis and let the waters out to people that suffers all over the region, and affects the golf stream from the waters of the Gulf via the coast of Africa all the way up to the rest of this planet, because of your psychopathic manipulations!
Psychopaths!
Inadequate health care and water and sanitation services in much of Iraq are putting millions of people at risk of disease, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) said today. "There has been some improvement in recent months, both in terms of security and essential services. More people now have access to health services and clean water. But far too many Iraqis still have no choice but to drink dirty water and live in insalubrious conditions," said Juan-Pedro Schaerer, the ICRC's head of delegation for Iraq. "This leads to more sick people seeking treatment in a health-care system already stretched to the limit."
The ICRC is particularly concerned about people living in households not connected to a water network (some 40 per cent of the total, and mainly in the countryside and suburbs). They must either buy water – at an average cost of 50 US cents for 10 litres – or, if they are too poor to do so, collect it from rivers and wells, which are often polluted. Even households that do have piped water regularly experience problems owing to a chronic lack of maintenance and innumerable illegal connections to the network. Furthermore, many Iraqis have to live with the health hazards of uncollected household waste and untreated sewage. As a result, many people contract water-borne diseases, further straining hospitals and clinics already struggling with a lack of resources. "My daughter is here because she drank dirty water," said a mother at Abu Ghraib General Hospital, near Baghdad. "We have no clean water at home. The only water we get is from the river."
Medical staff are struggling with chronic shortages of supplies and equipment. Dilapidated and sometimes outdated medical facilities lack proper maintenance and sanitation. Electricity shortages are common and many facilities have to rely on back-up generators. Many Iraqis simply cannot afford the treatment they need. Specialized surgery and treatment for diseases such as cancer are often available only in certain hospitals in the main cities.
Water, sanitation and health care are among the primary concerns of the ICRC in Iraq. This year alone, about four million people have benefited from repairs carried out by the ICRC on water and sanitation systems and on clinics and hospitals. ICRC water and sanitation experts are helping the authorities to repair and maintain pumping stations that supply hundreds of thousands of people with clean drinking water. The organization is also delivering drugs and surgical dressing materials to hospitals. The ICRC has recently been able to expand its presence in the country. "We can better help people because we now have more access to them than during previous years," said Mr Schaerer. "We plan to gradually increase our aid across Iraq. The needs are growing all the time, despite the considerable efforts of the authorities and increased humanitarian assistance."Mr Schaerer also stressed that the situation of many civilians remains precarious. "Clearly, fewer civilians are dying now than at the height of the conflict," he said. "Nevertheless, men, women and children are being killed and injured in indiscriminate attacks every day. The ICRC reminds all parties to the conflict that they have an obligation under international humanitarian law to protect and respect civilians."
or visit our website: http://www.icrc.org/
Idiots! Try something new for ones!
Just as some people in Turkey should do, just because they're Turks which have cut off the water from people all over the region, causing suffering and destabilization and given camps and the opportunity to be harbored in northern Iraq and supplying arms to the intelligence staff in Iraq through Syria and Iran, either transported by train or in large trucks and trained people in Istanbul, at the police station headquarters in Vatan Street. In order to suffocate the Kurdish movement and to sabotage the Kirkuk Referendum, and organized several suicide attacks against Mûsil, Kirkuk, Maxmur, and Hewlêr together with suicide bombers trained in Iran and Syria and are financially supported by them. And have had your people stationed in Mûsil from day 1. Refuse to respond on calls for solutions and laying down arms, destroying peoples lives in the South of Kurdistan, spreading poison all over the land all the way to the rivers in Iraq which are not all dried up, but polluted and then blames DTP for all unrest! Instead of respond on calls for solutions and laying down arms, get the hell out of Kurdish villages from Diyarbakýr to Van and the rest of Kurdistan, respect human rights, universal laws and every other law and solve your energy need with the Kurds and the Iraqis and let the waters out to people that suffers all over the region, and affects the golf stream from the waters of the Gulf via the coast of Africa all the way up to the rest of this planet, because of your psychopathic manipulations!
Psychopaths!
The UN is asking for $20.2 million to be allocated, mainly for herders and farmers whose livelihood has been damaged because of inconsistent of insufficient rainfalls. The Syrian government estimates that up to one million people are at risk of losing their livelihoods and suffering from malnutrition, according to the UN's Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA).
Geneva/Baghdad, 30 October 2008 ( ICRC )Inadequate health care and water and sanitation services in much of Iraq are putting millions of people at risk of disease, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) said today. "There has been some improvement in recent months, both in terms of security and essential services. More people now have access to health services and clean water. But far too many Iraqis still have no choice but to drink dirty water and live in insalubrious conditions," said Juan-Pedro Schaerer, the ICRC's head of delegation for Iraq. "This leads to more sick people seeking treatment in a health-care system already stretched to the limit."
The ICRC is particularly concerned about people living in households not connected to a water network (some 40 per cent of the total, and mainly in the countryside and suburbs). They must either buy water – at an average cost of 50 US cents for 10 litres – or, if they are too poor to do so, collect it from rivers and wells, which are often polluted. Even households that do have piped water regularly experience problems owing to a chronic lack of maintenance and innumerable illegal connections to the network. Furthermore, many Iraqis have to live with the health hazards of uncollected household waste and untreated sewage. As a result, many people contract water-borne diseases, further straining hospitals and clinics already struggling with a lack of resources. "My daughter is here because she drank dirty water," said a mother at Abu Ghraib General Hospital, near Baghdad. "We have no clean water at home. The only water we get is from the river."
Medical staff are struggling with chronic shortages of supplies and equipment. Dilapidated and sometimes outdated medical facilities lack proper maintenance and sanitation. Electricity shortages are common and many facilities have to rely on back-up generators. Many Iraqis simply cannot afford the treatment they need. Specialized surgery and treatment for diseases such as cancer are often available only in certain hospitals in the main cities.
Water, sanitation and health care are among the primary concerns of the ICRC in Iraq. This year alone, about four million people have benefited from repairs carried out by the ICRC on water and sanitation systems and on clinics and hospitals. ICRC water and sanitation experts are helping the authorities to repair and maintain pumping stations that supply hundreds of thousands of people with clean drinking water. The organization is also delivering drugs and surgical dressing materials to hospitals. The ICRC has recently been able to expand its presence in the country. "We can better help people because we now have more access to them than during previous years," said Mr Schaerer. "We plan to gradually increase our aid across Iraq. The needs are growing all the time, despite the considerable efforts of the authorities and increased humanitarian assistance."Mr Schaerer also stressed that the situation of many civilians remains precarious. "Clearly, fewer civilians are dying now than at the height of the conflict," he said. "Nevertheless, men, women and children are being killed and injured in indiscriminate attacks every day. The ICRC reminds all parties to the conflict that they have an obligation under international humanitarian law to protect and respect civilians."
or visit our website: http://www.icrc.org/
Well..Yeah!..We are having a Jirga here now! Shall we talk or shall we "write a drone"?
PESHAWAR: Thanks to the uninterrupted daily supply of about 5,000 tons of wheat flour of all varieties by the Punjab, the flour crisis that continued to hit the province off and on throughout the year eased to an unprecedented level on Wednesday. For the first time since the flour crisis struck, the prices of the commodity dropped by 31.25 per cent as a 20kg bag of the Punjab brand flour, which was being sold at Rs800 two weeks ago, was selling at Rs550 Wednesday. After the arrival of over 1,400 tons in the local flour market, the stores of flour dealers were found crammed with the commodity and the prices of both the Punjab and local flour decreased during the current week. One of the 83 flour dealers in local market told ‘The News’ that he had over 5,000 bags of Punjab brand flour in his store and the prices of the commodity had touched the lowest level during the last six months.
You should do something about those that have scrambled together a little gang in Afghanistan instead right now. While Akbari who fled to Iran from the "Talibans" or Iran´s Hezb-something that hanged people, living on air in the mountains outside Herat recruiting youngsters, believing he fights for something while he starves to death, while there are no roads safe for any ones except for Iranian merchants maybe..
KABUL, Afghanistan – Taliban militants stormed a government building in the center of the Afghan capital on Thursday and one of them blew himself up inside, killing five people, officials and witnesses said. "Our enemies are trying to undermine the recent efforts by the government for a peaceful solution to end the violence," President Hamid Karzai said in a statement. Assailants opened fire on police guards outside the Ministry of Information and Culture, then entered its cavernous hall where the explosion occurred, said Amir Mohammad, a policeman wounded in the blast. "There were three people. They were running. They opened fire on our guard first and then they entered the building." Five people were killed, including a policeman, three ministry employees and another civilian, the Interior Ministry said. Twenty-one people were wounded, said Abdul Fahim, the spokesman for the Health Ministry, which supervises the hospitals where the injured were taken. Taliban spokesman Zabiullah Mujahid said his group was responsible for the attack. A man named Naqibullah from the eastern Khost province carried out the suicide attack, Mujahid told the AP. The other two men fled.
Separately, four police were killed in Panjwayi district of Kandahar province, after their patrol vehicle struck a newly planted mine, said Zulmai Ayubi, the provincial governor's spokesman.
AMIR SHAH AP, Noor Khan in Kandahar contributed to this story.
You should do something about those that have scrambled together a little gang in Afghanistan instead right now. While Akbari who fled to Iran from the "Talibans" or Iran´s Hezb-something that hanged people, living on air in the mountains outside Herat recruiting youngsters, believing he fights for something while he starves to death, while there are no roads safe for any ones except for Iranian merchants maybe..
KABUL, Afghanistan – Taliban militants stormed a government building in the center of the Afghan capital on Thursday and one of them blew himself up inside, killing five people, officials and witnesses said. "Our enemies are trying to undermine the recent efforts by the government for a peaceful solution to end the violence," President Hamid Karzai said in a statement. Assailants opened fire on police guards outside the Ministry of Information and Culture, then entered its cavernous hall where the explosion occurred, said Amir Mohammad, a policeman wounded in the blast. "There were three people. They were running. They opened fire on our guard first and then they entered the building." Five people were killed, including a policeman, three ministry employees and another civilian, the Interior Ministry said. Twenty-one people were wounded, said Abdul Fahim, the spokesman for the Health Ministry, which supervises the hospitals where the injured were taken. Taliban spokesman Zabiullah Mujahid said his group was responsible for the attack. A man named Naqibullah from the eastern Khost province carried out the suicide attack, Mujahid told the AP. The other two men fled.
Separately, four police were killed in Panjwayi district of Kandahar province, after their patrol vehicle struck a newly planted mine, said Zulmai Ayubi, the provincial governor's spokesman.
AMIR SHAH AP, Noor Khan in Kandahar contributed to this story.
Yeah..Why don´t you send back your Iranian officers to Iran..They do not do much good at the Syrian border anyway..
DAMASCUS, Syria – A Syrian television station is reporting that the country is reducing the number of troops on its border with Iraq in response to a deadly U.S. cross-border raid. The private station, Dunia, showed footage Thursday of Syrian troops dismantling positions on the border and leaving the area.
The occupiers against the occupiers are occupied..The Twilight Zone farce..
The occupiers against the occupiers are occupied..The Twilight Zone farce..
Well..
GUWAHATI, India (Reuters) - Eleven bomb blasts in quick succession ripped through the main city of India's troubled northeastern Assam state and three other towns on Thursday, killing at least 65 people and wounding 335, police said.
It will not disrupt ongoing talks between Pakistan and India if it were some idiots believing that..
It will not disrupt ongoing talks between Pakistan and India if it were some idiots believing that..
It´s the same for every one..
Including Russia. It does not help to stand and play on everything instead of taking your responsibility. Something you should have thought of when you took peoples farmlands, destroyed their lives and displaced people and just run them over in every aspect for your military convoys at the border to Georgia! You didn´t even took a straight line, you had to make it in sick sack to take it all, just because! Idiots!
Tip toe for Turkey? Prepare yourselves for cutting off the umbilical cord..
Somebody must be joking..Turkey will receive what they gives just as every one else..And right now..It does not look good..mild spoken..The "U.S. nursery room" Turkey have been playing in is coming to it´s end. The United States have been and is to busy to babysit Turkey at the expense of universal laws, human rights, tax payers and the Kurdish people. They maybe have not realized that yet..But it´s getting harder trying to deny that fact..
The time has come for Turkey to stand on it´s own feet's and actually take responsibility for their own actions, just as every one else..The world has had enough of the negative dark forces coming out from Turkey and there is no way the U.S., Germany or any ones else can keep feeding it without getting a LOT of trouble!
Baluchistan..We need stoves and heaters..And it´s a bit hurry to get the people of Baluchistan cover for the winter..In fact..
A man waits for his turn during the distribution of relief goods near Ziarat, Photo Athar Hussain/ReutersPakistan (Reuters) – Pakistani army helicopters scoured mountains on Thursday for survivors. Efforts shifted from rescue to relief as hundreds of injured people were taken to hospitals. But a senior military official said searches were being conducted in the mountains above the valley for any stranded villagers. Most of the valley's 50,000 people slept out in freezing temperatures on Wednesday night. Maqbool Ahmed, 25, standing beside the rubble of his collapsed home in the badly hit village of Wam, said 14 members of his 18-member family were killed. "My father, my mother, all of them are dead," said Ahmed, his dusty face streaked with tears. "I buried my entire family with these hands. We lost everything, not in minutes but in seconds," said Ahmed as the morning sun brought relief from the biting night-time cold.
Baluchistan Revenue Minister Zamrak Khan said about 215 people were killed while 500 people were injured. The quake triggered landslides that destroyed some houses and blocked roads, complicating search and relief operations. The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) in Geneva said estimates of the wounded ranged between 500 and 1,000. Two ICRC teams, including a surgical unit from Peshawar, had been sent to the area to assess needs.
Baluchistan Chief Minister Nawab Mohammad Aslam Raisani called for international help. "A major effort is needed to rehabilitate the affected people. We urge the international community and international agencies to help us," he told a news conference. A Pakistani relief official said the United States and China had promised $1 million each for rehabilitation work, while Japan and several other countries had also promised help.
A national disaster management team said it had sent rescue workers, tents, blankets and clothing but an official in the area said only a trickle of help was getting through. "Only one truck of tents and blankets has reached the affected areas as we were told that helicopters could not land because of the aftershocks," said Ziarat district chief Dilawar Khan. "It's very disappointing, we are badly in need of tents. It's extremely cold out in the open." The ICRC said survivors were even sleeping outside hospital buildings for fear of aftershocks. "It's almost unbearably cold for those without shelter," said ICRC spokeswoman Carla Haddad. The World Food Programme said almost 20,000 people had lost their homes and that it would provide 700 tonnes of dry food rations in initial relief supplies.
Baluchistan has the regions biggest reserves of natural gas but there were no reports of damage to gas facilities. In 1935, about 30,000 people were killed and the provincial capital, Quetta, was largely destroyed by a severe earthquake. Back in Wam, Mohammad Salman, 12, was poking through the debris of his home and had collected a small pile of broken plates and cups. "I couldn't find anything else," he said.
KAN BANGLA, Pakistan (AFP) – Rescuers on Thursday struggled to deliver aid to villagers. The 6.4-magnitude pre-dawn quake on Wednesday flattened mud-brick houses and triggered landslides in the impoverished province of Baluchistan bordering Afghanistan, killing or injuring their occupants as they slept. But international and Pakistani agencies were struggling to get help to survivors who spent a freezing night in the open, with rescuers discovering more victims as they reached remote villages that had still not seen any aid. "The total I had last night was 215 dead. This figure may go up as there were whole families who disappeared in the disaster," provincial revenue minister Zamarak Khan told AFP. Pakistan's information minister Sherry Rehman said Thursday she could not say whether the overnight cold claimed more lives but pledged that "we will not let that happen among the survivors". We are trying to control damage and contain people in an area where they can escape the cold. The government's attention is focused on this national tragedy, she told a news conference.
Earlier, destitute survivors sat beside campfires or huddled together as day broke over the mountainous quake zone. "We are doomed," said Mohammed Hashim, from Wam, the worst affected of eight villages that were hit hard by the quake. "We have nothing left to save our families from the cold in the night." Army Major General Tariq Rasheed Khan, supervising the relief and rescue operation, said about 50,000 of the 100,000 people in the region around the historic hill town of Ziarat had been made homeless or badly hit by the quake. "We are distributing 9,500 blankets, 2,000 tents and 5,600 warm jackets," he told reporters in Kawas, near Wam. But he added: The requirement is much more than that. It is in fact less than 50 percent of the total requirement. Relief was coming in slowly, mainly because key roads had been damaged, said Amjad Rashid, head of the Taraqi development Foundation, a local non-governmental organisation.
Offers of help have come in from the United States, Canada, France, Germany and India. Teams from the World Health Organisation and the International Committee of the Red Cross have flown to the region. Pakistani authorities have said that the situation is contained and under control. Yet in the far-flung village of Killi Baio Khan, the village chieftain made a desperate appeal for supplies. "The urgent need is warm clothes, blankets, tents and food," said Haji Baio Khan. "The military have set up their camps and are providing food but that is not enough." An AFP correspondent in Wam said emergency tents had not arrived by Thursday morning, forcing exhausted villagers to hunker down in the ruined shells of their homes. They spent the previous day in a desperate search for loved ones or burying the dead in mass graves, as aftershocks nearly as big as the initial quake pounded the landscape, sending rocks spewing from nearby peaks and sparking fresh panic. Virtually all houses were reduced to rubble either in the initial quake or by aftershocks. Schools and hospitals were also damaged. A 7.6-magnitude earthquake in northwest Pakistan and Kashmir killed 74,000 people and displaced 3.5 million in October 2005.
By Hasan Mansoor, Saeed Ali Achakzai, Gul Yousafzai in QUETTA and Jonathan Lynn in GENEVA; Writing Augustine Anthony; Editing by Robert Birsel and Paul Tait
Ghobadi calls on Turkey to seek peace
Kurdish famous director and filmmaker Bahman Ghobadi said in a press conference in the Turkish capital of Ankara that Turkey sidelined all peaceful solutions about the Kurdish question in the country and sought war since decades, saying that is a shame for a developed country like Turkey. “ Ghobadi has visited Turkey to show his “Turtles can fly” film and to establish a film-production company in Turkey. On October 27th, Ghobadi told the reporters that during his stay in Ankara he saw that all the Turkish TV channels talked about the war against Kurds (PKK), saying “Unfortunately it is a concern, since I see this issue could be resolved through negotiations and dialogue and does not need the use of military power.”
In 2006, Index on Censorship gave Ghobadi an Index Film Award for making a significant contribution to freedom of expression through his film "Turtles Can Fly."
In 2006, Index on Censorship gave Ghobadi an Index Film Award for making a significant contribution to freedom of expression through his film "Turtles Can Fly."
Censored.........Justify this!
Turkish artillery started again to shell several villages on the Kurdistan region border on Sunday night for 1 hour. A source from the area told PUKmedia that last night Turkish artillery heavily shelled Shewi, Brindar cave and Kara villages in Nerwa area and Kamji and Shamki villages in Rekan area in Deraluk sub- district in Amedi district.
Turkish warplanes resumed bombarding Kurdish border villages in pursuit of Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) on the border between Kurdistan Region and Turkey. An informed source told PUKmedia that “Turkish air strikes targeted the villages of Sidakan and Amedee areas in Kurdistan region of Iraq”.The source said that "Turkish warplanes intensively bombed at 10 a.m. several villages of Duhok province; the size of the losses not known yet”. The bombing struck a flock of sheep in Bijwan village, killing many heads and causing great damages to farms and other properties of the citizens of the region, the source added. The bombing has generated fear and panic among the people of those areas forcing them to leave their homes and properties.
Daily Evrensel’s accountable desk editor Mehmet Uğraş Vatandaş and license holder Ahmet Sami Belek have been sentenced to one year in prison for publishing a declaration by the Kurdish Workers Party (PKK). The employers of the newspaper protested the court ruling against them at the press release they held at the Journalists Association of Turkey (TGC). Speaking at the press release, Evrensel’s desk editor Fatih Polat said Vatandaş and Belek had been punished for Çetin Diyar’s article titled “Son Pişmanlık Neye Yarar?” (What good is final regret), which was published on December 10, 2007 and included a declaration of seven articles by the PKK under the title “Democratic Solution.”
DECLARATION CALLING FOR A DEMOCRATIC SOLUTION
The Kurdistan issue is one of the most deeply rooted in the Middle East. Although this problem has social, political and national roots, it is yet to be afforded an accurate and just approach by all concerned powers. This deficient situation is not bringing peace and stability. Instead, and despite the Kurdish people’s wishes, the problem is being treated as a mere security and terrorism issue among two or three powers within the global arena, and is also being made a tool for political gains.
As a reply to certain statements made by the Prime Minister in August 2005 and October 2006, our organisation declared unlimited ceasefires, which in both cases were answered by military attacks, giving rise to serious doubts as to the sincerity of the Turkish state. In the present circumstances it should be accepted that the Kurdish people cannot have trust without practical steps being put in place. Primarily there should be clarity regarding which forces support a real solution and which forces are merely using this rhetoric to pacify the Kurdish people and our movement with a view to complete nullification.
Against this background, and instead of efforts to de-escalate the situation, plans on how to attack, isolate and nullify our organisation are constantly being drawn up and presented to the public. The Turkish state is, with increasing intensity, attacking the Kurdish people’s military, political and social cohesion and principles. As a movement struggling for freedom, we see it as our duty, at a time like this, and as a reply to the calls from the Turkish side, to propose a project for a peaceful solution to this problem. It is well known that for the past 15 years our leader and our movement have aimed to solve this problem peacefully. Since 1993 our movement has declared a ceasefire on five different occasions as a signal for the start of a democratic process in which this problem can be solved peacefully. However, we regret to say that on each of these occasions the Turkish state has replied by increased military activity against our movement. As the Kurdish side we showed our integrity in our enthusiasm for a peaceful and democratic solution by sending peace envoys on two occasions. Those who were calling upon us to declare a ceasefire have remained largely indifferent to the continuous attacks of the Turkish military and have not shown a great deal of effort in redirecting this violent tendency towards a path for a peaceful solution. At present, they are once again calling upon us to declare another ceasefire. We in all integrity respect all calls for a peaceful and democratic platform for the solution of this problem.
We would like to announce that we are willing to take responsibility for playing our part in ensuring the guns remain silent in order to pave the way for a peaceful solution. Our declaration of a ceasefire in October 2006 still stands in theory although it should be noted that the increased intensity of the attacks from the Turkish military have all but made it impossible for the ceasefire to prevail. If the Turkish state ceases its attacks on our forces, our leader, our people, our values and our democratic institutions then we can confidently say that the current violent atmosphere will vanish and a peaceful atmosphere will ensue. This will mean in practice the silence of the guns.
As the public is aware, the USA, EU and other international organisations, along with the Democratic Society Party and other political bodies in Turkey, some intellectuals and writers, the Iraqi government and Southern Kurdistan’s regional government made a call to our organisation a year ago regarding a unilateral ceasefire. As a result of our leader’s response to this, we announced an unlimited ceasefire on the 1st of October 2006. The Turkish state however, rather than attaching any positive significance to this action, instead claimed it was an action taken to divide Turkey. For this reason the Turkish state redoubled its military operations against a force which was on ceasefire. Thus since 1 October 2006 the Turkish army has carried out no fewer than 579 operations against our forces; 460 of these resulted in some sort of clash as a result of which both sides have suffered losses of more than a thousand each.
In this period, the Turkish army generals have not hidden from the public their strategy of fighting until not one single guerrilla remains. Of course there are significant negative consequences arising from this ranging from the economic to the moral. Alongside all this, the Turkish state is using every strategy, including psychological warfare, to hinder the development of a Kurdish political platform. These attacks are not only limited to the Kurdish people and the guerrillas but are also directed at the democratically elected representatives of the Kurdish people. After a continuous but unsuccessful campaign attacking every single Kurdish dynamic within Turkey, Turkey has adopted the idea that the roots of the problem are external and therefore has put a cross border attack into Iraq on the agenda. With this aim, a bill was passed in the Turkish parliament creating the potential for instability and war. The AKP government is using this bill as a tool for negotiating with the USA and Southern Kurdistan. This holds similarities with the kind of military and diplomatic pressure applied by Turkey to the Syrian government in 1998. The thinking behind it is to provoke the USA and the Southern Kurdish forces to attack our movement and by doing this to cause the Kurds to turn against each other. Although initially this plan is aimed at nullifying our movement, the second phase of the plan aims to weaken Kurdish dynamics in other parts of Kurdistan.
Although it is the Turkish side that is planning all the attacks, they are portraying themselves as being under attack and hence the victims. All diplomatic efforts are channelled to this end. It is upsetting however, that certain global powers are allowing themselves to be manipulated in this way for economic and political interests. The unethical nature of such an approach is self-evident. In fact the situation is completely the opposite. The real victims are the Kurdish people and their legitimate and rightful representatives. The number and scope of the operations, together with the speeches of the generals, are a clear indication of this.
To this end, those who are calling for us to declare a ceasefire will do more good by ensuring that the Turkish state accepts the terms of the ceasefire our movement declared in October 2006. If the Turkish state accepts that ceasefire then no guns will be firing and the sought-after atmosphere will be achieved. As a result of this a project by which the use of guns can be completely nullified can be easily achieved. We believe that this political project can be introduced through the democratic autonomy which the DTP also recently suggested.
A permanent voluntary unity can be achieved through the acceptance of a democratically autonomous Kurdistan within a unified democratic Turkey. The details of this proposal/minimum demands can be found within the following articles:
1- The recognition of Kurdish identity, and the constitutional protection of all identities under the citizenship of Turkey as a super-ordinate identity.
2- The removal of all obstacles constraining the development of the Kurdish language and culture; the recognition of the right to an education in the mother tongue; the acceptance of Kurdish as the joint official language of the Kurdistan area; respect for the cultural rights of ethnic minorities.
3- The recognition of the right to free association based around freedom of thought and expression, and the removal of all inequalities not least of gender.
4- The development of a social project for compromise between the two peoples, through forgiveness, to achieve peace and freedom by freeing all political prisoners including Abdullah Ocalan and ensuring the swift granting of a legitimate social status to all of political prisoners.
5- The retreat of all forces of the war from Kurdistan; the abolition of the village guard system and the development of an economic and social project to facilitate Kurds’ return to their villages. 6- A rearrangement of the law to strengthen and widen the powers of local government.
7- And parallel to the above-mentioned articles, a timetable agreed by both sides for the inclusion of guerrillas in a democratic social set-up following the abandonment of arms.
Resolving the Kurdish problem without altering the borders would be possible on this basis.
Creating a democratic environment in which the Kurdish people are able to live freely is what is important. This project will in effect lay the foundations for the most sustainable resolution which will not only reinforce the basis for free alliance but also merge both sides’ gains. The freedom and existence of the Kurdish people is not a threat to the development of any people or state. Our people want only the natural rights they, as a people, are entitled to; this is possible solely through the democratization of the sovereign forces over Kurdistan. Therefore, the resolution of the Kurdish problem will also serve to build consistency and democracy in the region.
We call upon all democratic forces in Turkey, all quarters who want peace and support the brotherhood of the people, democratic intellectuals and writers to take hold of their responsibilities towards a resolution to the Kurdish problem through peaceful democratic means. Standing up against the terrorizing and race-orientated policies of the Turkish state against the Kurds is currently a fundamental duty of being democratic. The AKP Party’s false, deceptive and religiously motivated approach and their manipulation of the Kurds through this is not a solution to the problem and is also a line of policy that could lead to bloodshed. We call on all democratic quarters to stand before the AKP party’s dangerous policies and strive towards the development of a solution to the problem through the brotherhood of the people.
We call upon the Turkish state and the AKP government to abandon the denial and eradication policy, which, despite being implemented for the past 84 years, has not produced any solutions. We invite them to discuss our presented project so as to resolve the problem through free alliance based on recognition of the will of the Kurdish people. The government of the Turkish Republic must not search outside for the solution but inside of Turkey and through peaceful dialogue with the legitimate representatives of the Kurdish people. The state must accept this as a problem of Turkey and assess it on this basis.
Kurdistan may have been divided into four parts against its will but the latest developments have demonstrated once again that the fate of the Kurds is very much tied. In light of this, therefore, all Kurdistan powers, especially the Kurdistan Regional Government, must take hold of their responsibilities by working towards a peaceful solution. It must be known that the futures of all parts of Kurdistan are connected to a peaceful resolution to the Kurdish problem. International forces, primarily the U.S, declaring the Kurdish freedom movement as an enemy is not going to solve the problem.
The source of the problem, contrary to the Turkish state’s claims, is not our movement but the state’s denial policy. A democratic solution to the Kurdish problem is an important contribution to security, peace and stability in the region and to world peace. From this perspective we wish to state that we are open and willing to discuss a fair solution with international and regional powers in the event of their presenting such plans. Reviving hopes of a solution without Mr. Ocalan and the PKK will only waste valuable time and cause to deepen the issue. Dismissing powers that represent the will of the Kurdish people will not be acceptable by the Kurdish people.
As representatives of the Kurdish side we have developed all the propositions needed for resolution but have been answered with a persistent concept of eradication through armed force. We will naturally resist this with all our will and determination. The people of Kurdistan, irrespective of which part they are from, want to resolve the issue through peaceful dialogue, not violence. We value the efforts of all powers in the region who support democracy, peace and consistency in working towards a solution to this problem. The governing states and international forces in Kurdistan must relinquish the idea of the Kurdish problem being a factor of instability, an idea which leads to their adopting strategies of suppressing it through two or three-party alliances. They must develop a conference platform wherein all parties are represented, based on objectives of regional collaboration, brotherhood between people, stability, trust and a general aim for resolution. The realization of the above objectives will strengthen the foundation for a sustainable solution.
Inciting tension and internal fighting between Kurdish political forces is certainly an ill-intentioned approach. No friend of the Kurdish people supports this approach. The time of Kurds fighting each other has passed; Kurdish political forces must not allow it to revive. All Kurdistan powers should work for national-democratic unity and accept patriotism as their minimum prerequisite for success. Taking optimum advantage of opportunities for the success of our people’s struggle for freedom depends on this political stance. It is vital that no Kurdish power lends itself to a policy of denial and eradication. They must focus their priorities on the unity and solidarity of the Kurds.
Patriotic people of Kurdistan, be they women or children, young or old, must maintain awareness of national-democratic unity. This Kurdish problem is nearer to a resolution than ever before. Sovereign states that identify a resolution as a threat to their interests are in a state of anxiety and panic. They are attempting every manner of tactic to contain the situation. The denial and eradication policy aimed at weakening the Kurdish people and their will is destined to fail. It should be well noted that the national-democratic dynamics and rich experience in resistance the Kurds have attained through the PKK leadership is strong enough to continue the struggle for many years to come. Our people, friends and powers concerned should have no doubts regarding this.
We, as a movement, by this declaration, reply to calls made by concerned powers so that a period of peaceful democratic solution may develop. We hereby officially declare that we are open to discussion of a resolution. We call upon all powers to take hold of their responsibilities and make efforts towards a democratic, peaceful, solution to the Kurdish problem.
Turkish warplanes resumed bombarding Kurdish border villages in pursuit of Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) on the border between Kurdistan Region and Turkey. An informed source told PUKmedia that “Turkish air strikes targeted the villages of Sidakan and Amedee areas in Kurdistan region of Iraq”.The source said that "Turkish warplanes intensively bombed at 10 a.m. several villages of Duhok province; the size of the losses not known yet”. The bombing struck a flock of sheep in Bijwan village, killing many heads and causing great damages to farms and other properties of the citizens of the region, the source added. The bombing has generated fear and panic among the people of those areas forcing them to leave their homes and properties.
Daily Evrensel’s accountable desk editor Mehmet Uğraş Vatandaş and license holder Ahmet Sami Belek have been sentenced to one year in prison for publishing a declaration by the Kurdish Workers Party (PKK). The employers of the newspaper protested the court ruling against them at the press release they held at the Journalists Association of Turkey (TGC). Speaking at the press release, Evrensel’s desk editor Fatih Polat said Vatandaş and Belek had been punished for Çetin Diyar’s article titled “Son Pişmanlık Neye Yarar?” (What good is final regret), which was published on December 10, 2007 and included a declaration of seven articles by the PKK under the title “Democratic Solution.”
DECLARATION CALLING FOR A DEMOCRATIC SOLUTION
The Kurdistan issue is one of the most deeply rooted in the Middle East. Although this problem has social, political and national roots, it is yet to be afforded an accurate and just approach by all concerned powers. This deficient situation is not bringing peace and stability. Instead, and despite the Kurdish people’s wishes, the problem is being treated as a mere security and terrorism issue among two or three powers within the global arena, and is also being made a tool for political gains.
As a reply to certain statements made by the Prime Minister in August 2005 and October 2006, our organisation declared unlimited ceasefires, which in both cases were answered by military attacks, giving rise to serious doubts as to the sincerity of the Turkish state. In the present circumstances it should be accepted that the Kurdish people cannot have trust without practical steps being put in place. Primarily there should be clarity regarding which forces support a real solution and which forces are merely using this rhetoric to pacify the Kurdish people and our movement with a view to complete nullification.
Against this background, and instead of efforts to de-escalate the situation, plans on how to attack, isolate and nullify our organisation are constantly being drawn up and presented to the public. The Turkish state is, with increasing intensity, attacking the Kurdish people’s military, political and social cohesion and principles. As a movement struggling for freedom, we see it as our duty, at a time like this, and as a reply to the calls from the Turkish side, to propose a project for a peaceful solution to this problem. It is well known that for the past 15 years our leader and our movement have aimed to solve this problem peacefully. Since 1993 our movement has declared a ceasefire on five different occasions as a signal for the start of a democratic process in which this problem can be solved peacefully. However, we regret to say that on each of these occasions the Turkish state has replied by increased military activity against our movement. As the Kurdish side we showed our integrity in our enthusiasm for a peaceful and democratic solution by sending peace envoys on two occasions. Those who were calling upon us to declare a ceasefire have remained largely indifferent to the continuous attacks of the Turkish military and have not shown a great deal of effort in redirecting this violent tendency towards a path for a peaceful solution. At present, they are once again calling upon us to declare another ceasefire. We in all integrity respect all calls for a peaceful and democratic platform for the solution of this problem.
We would like to announce that we are willing to take responsibility for playing our part in ensuring the guns remain silent in order to pave the way for a peaceful solution. Our declaration of a ceasefire in October 2006 still stands in theory although it should be noted that the increased intensity of the attacks from the Turkish military have all but made it impossible for the ceasefire to prevail. If the Turkish state ceases its attacks on our forces, our leader, our people, our values and our democratic institutions then we can confidently say that the current violent atmosphere will vanish and a peaceful atmosphere will ensue. This will mean in practice the silence of the guns.
As the public is aware, the USA, EU and other international organisations, along with the Democratic Society Party and other political bodies in Turkey, some intellectuals and writers, the Iraqi government and Southern Kurdistan’s regional government made a call to our organisation a year ago regarding a unilateral ceasefire. As a result of our leader’s response to this, we announced an unlimited ceasefire on the 1st of October 2006. The Turkish state however, rather than attaching any positive significance to this action, instead claimed it was an action taken to divide Turkey. For this reason the Turkish state redoubled its military operations against a force which was on ceasefire. Thus since 1 October 2006 the Turkish army has carried out no fewer than 579 operations against our forces; 460 of these resulted in some sort of clash as a result of which both sides have suffered losses of more than a thousand each.
In this period, the Turkish army generals have not hidden from the public their strategy of fighting until not one single guerrilla remains. Of course there are significant negative consequences arising from this ranging from the economic to the moral. Alongside all this, the Turkish state is using every strategy, including psychological warfare, to hinder the development of a Kurdish political platform. These attacks are not only limited to the Kurdish people and the guerrillas but are also directed at the democratically elected representatives of the Kurdish people. After a continuous but unsuccessful campaign attacking every single Kurdish dynamic within Turkey, Turkey has adopted the idea that the roots of the problem are external and therefore has put a cross border attack into Iraq on the agenda. With this aim, a bill was passed in the Turkish parliament creating the potential for instability and war. The AKP government is using this bill as a tool for negotiating with the USA and Southern Kurdistan. This holds similarities with the kind of military and diplomatic pressure applied by Turkey to the Syrian government in 1998. The thinking behind it is to provoke the USA and the Southern Kurdish forces to attack our movement and by doing this to cause the Kurds to turn against each other. Although initially this plan is aimed at nullifying our movement, the second phase of the plan aims to weaken Kurdish dynamics in other parts of Kurdistan.
Although it is the Turkish side that is planning all the attacks, they are portraying themselves as being under attack and hence the victims. All diplomatic efforts are channelled to this end. It is upsetting however, that certain global powers are allowing themselves to be manipulated in this way for economic and political interests. The unethical nature of such an approach is self-evident. In fact the situation is completely the opposite. The real victims are the Kurdish people and their legitimate and rightful representatives. The number and scope of the operations, together with the speeches of the generals, are a clear indication of this.
To this end, those who are calling for us to declare a ceasefire will do more good by ensuring that the Turkish state accepts the terms of the ceasefire our movement declared in October 2006. If the Turkish state accepts that ceasefire then no guns will be firing and the sought-after atmosphere will be achieved. As a result of this a project by which the use of guns can be completely nullified can be easily achieved. We believe that this political project can be introduced through the democratic autonomy which the DTP also recently suggested.
A permanent voluntary unity can be achieved through the acceptance of a democratically autonomous Kurdistan within a unified democratic Turkey. The details of this proposal/minimum demands can be found within the following articles:
1- The recognition of Kurdish identity, and the constitutional protection of all identities under the citizenship of Turkey as a super-ordinate identity.
2- The removal of all obstacles constraining the development of the Kurdish language and culture; the recognition of the right to an education in the mother tongue; the acceptance of Kurdish as the joint official language of the Kurdistan area; respect for the cultural rights of ethnic minorities.
3- The recognition of the right to free association based around freedom of thought and expression, and the removal of all inequalities not least of gender.
4- The development of a social project for compromise between the two peoples, through forgiveness, to achieve peace and freedom by freeing all political prisoners including Abdullah Ocalan and ensuring the swift granting of a legitimate social status to all of political prisoners.
5- The retreat of all forces of the war from Kurdistan; the abolition of the village guard system and the development of an economic and social project to facilitate Kurds’ return to their villages. 6- A rearrangement of the law to strengthen and widen the powers of local government.
7- And parallel to the above-mentioned articles, a timetable agreed by both sides for the inclusion of guerrillas in a democratic social set-up following the abandonment of arms.
Resolving the Kurdish problem without altering the borders would be possible on this basis.
Creating a democratic environment in which the Kurdish people are able to live freely is what is important. This project will in effect lay the foundations for the most sustainable resolution which will not only reinforce the basis for free alliance but also merge both sides’ gains. The freedom and existence of the Kurdish people is not a threat to the development of any people or state. Our people want only the natural rights they, as a people, are entitled to; this is possible solely through the democratization of the sovereign forces over Kurdistan. Therefore, the resolution of the Kurdish problem will also serve to build consistency and democracy in the region.
We call upon all democratic forces in Turkey, all quarters who want peace and support the brotherhood of the people, democratic intellectuals and writers to take hold of their responsibilities towards a resolution to the Kurdish problem through peaceful democratic means. Standing up against the terrorizing and race-orientated policies of the Turkish state against the Kurds is currently a fundamental duty of being democratic. The AKP Party’s false, deceptive and religiously motivated approach and their manipulation of the Kurds through this is not a solution to the problem and is also a line of policy that could lead to bloodshed. We call on all democratic quarters to stand before the AKP party’s dangerous policies and strive towards the development of a solution to the problem through the brotherhood of the people.
We call upon the Turkish state and the AKP government to abandon the denial and eradication policy, which, despite being implemented for the past 84 years, has not produced any solutions. We invite them to discuss our presented project so as to resolve the problem through free alliance based on recognition of the will of the Kurdish people. The government of the Turkish Republic must not search outside for the solution but inside of Turkey and through peaceful dialogue with the legitimate representatives of the Kurdish people. The state must accept this as a problem of Turkey and assess it on this basis.
Kurdistan may have been divided into four parts against its will but the latest developments have demonstrated once again that the fate of the Kurds is very much tied. In light of this, therefore, all Kurdistan powers, especially the Kurdistan Regional Government, must take hold of their responsibilities by working towards a peaceful solution. It must be known that the futures of all parts of Kurdistan are connected to a peaceful resolution to the Kurdish problem. International forces, primarily the U.S, declaring the Kurdish freedom movement as an enemy is not going to solve the problem.
The source of the problem, contrary to the Turkish state’s claims, is not our movement but the state’s denial policy. A democratic solution to the Kurdish problem is an important contribution to security, peace and stability in the region and to world peace. From this perspective we wish to state that we are open and willing to discuss a fair solution with international and regional powers in the event of their presenting such plans. Reviving hopes of a solution without Mr. Ocalan and the PKK will only waste valuable time and cause to deepen the issue. Dismissing powers that represent the will of the Kurdish people will not be acceptable by the Kurdish people.
As representatives of the Kurdish side we have developed all the propositions needed for resolution but have been answered with a persistent concept of eradication through armed force. We will naturally resist this with all our will and determination. The people of Kurdistan, irrespective of which part they are from, want to resolve the issue through peaceful dialogue, not violence. We value the efforts of all powers in the region who support democracy, peace and consistency in working towards a solution to this problem. The governing states and international forces in Kurdistan must relinquish the idea of the Kurdish problem being a factor of instability, an idea which leads to their adopting strategies of suppressing it through two or three-party alliances. They must develop a conference platform wherein all parties are represented, based on objectives of regional collaboration, brotherhood between people, stability, trust and a general aim for resolution. The realization of the above objectives will strengthen the foundation for a sustainable solution.
Inciting tension and internal fighting between Kurdish political forces is certainly an ill-intentioned approach. No friend of the Kurdish people supports this approach. The time of Kurds fighting each other has passed; Kurdish political forces must not allow it to revive. All Kurdistan powers should work for national-democratic unity and accept patriotism as their minimum prerequisite for success. Taking optimum advantage of opportunities for the success of our people’s struggle for freedom depends on this political stance. It is vital that no Kurdish power lends itself to a policy of denial and eradication. They must focus their priorities on the unity and solidarity of the Kurds.
Patriotic people of Kurdistan, be they women or children, young or old, must maintain awareness of national-democratic unity. This Kurdish problem is nearer to a resolution than ever before. Sovereign states that identify a resolution as a threat to their interests are in a state of anxiety and panic. They are attempting every manner of tactic to contain the situation. The denial and eradication policy aimed at weakening the Kurdish people and their will is destined to fail. It should be well noted that the national-democratic dynamics and rich experience in resistance the Kurds have attained through the PKK leadership is strong enough to continue the struggle for many years to come. Our people, friends and powers concerned should have no doubts regarding this.
We, as a movement, by this declaration, reply to calls made by concerned powers so that a period of peaceful democratic solution may develop. We hereby officially declare that we are open to discussion of a resolution. We call upon all powers to take hold of their responsibilities and make efforts towards a democratic, peaceful, solution to the Kurdish problem.
Wednesday, October 29, 2008
Help to Baluchistan ..
Khan said most people in the hilly Ziarat district, which has a population of about 50,000, were sleeping out, either because their homes were destroyed or damaged, or because aftershocks. The Pakistani army had sent helicopters and a medical team and paramilitary troops had joined the search for survivors. The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) sent two teams to the area. "Aftershocks have continued which we think will force the population to stay outside, and the weather is cold," said ICRC spokeswoman Carla Haddad. The World Health Organization (WHO) said it was sending two truckloads of essential medicines and supplies for 50,000 people for three months to Ziarat and Pishin. "Accessibility to health services, exposure to cold weather and access to safe food and water are major health concerns facing the at least 20,000 people displaced by today's magnitude 6.4 earthquake," it said in a statement. The head of a national disaster management team, Farooq Ahmed Khan, said about 300 rescue workers had reached Ziarat. Tents, blankets and clothing were being flown in.
UNICEF is ready to help children affected by earthquake.
Prime Minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani on Wednesday expressed shock and grief over the tragic earthquake that hit many parts of Balochistan and claimed numerous precious lives. The Prime Minister extended his heartfelt condolences to the families who lost their dear ones. He announced a monetary compensation of Rs. 300,000 for the survivors of each deceased person and Rs. 100,000 for the seriously injured. Gilani directed the Cabinet Division and National Disaster Management Authority to carry out relief work expeditiously, monitor relief activities in all affected areas and keep him posted on the estimates of damage to life and property. The Prime Minister, who is currently visiting Turkey, spoke to Governor Balochistan over telephone and asked the provincial government to ensure provision of proper free medical care to the injured as well as relief goods like tents, blankets and food items. He also assured that federal government would provide all necessary relief supplies to affected people. The Prime Minister also asked the PPP rank and file in Balochistan, general public and philanthropists to take active part in relief activities and help local authorities in providing assistance to the injured and displaced people.
Punjab Chief Minister, Mian Muhammad Shahbaz Sharif has announced relief assistance of Rs. 100 million for the earthquake affectees of Balochistan. He has also constituted a Task Force headed by Senior Advisor Sardar Zulfiqar Ali Khan Khosa which will not only provide edible items and medicines from four big cities of Punjab including Lahore, Multan, Rawalpindi and Faisalabad with the cooperation of National and Provincial Assembly Members but would also supervise other relief measures.
UNITED NATIONS: Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has expressed his grief over the loss of life and destruction of property caused by an earthquake in Pakistan's Balochistan province on Wednesday, and offered United Nations' help to meet humanitarian needs of the victims. "The United Nations has been in contact with Pakistani officials and is assessing the situation in collaboration with them," his spokesperson Marie Okabe told the regular noon briefing at UN Headquarters in New York. "The United Nations stands ready to lend its assistance to efforts to respond to humanitarian needs created by the disaster, including by using existing resources and providing grants from emergency funds, and to mobilize international support for that response, if required," she said. The spokesperson said the Secretary-General is "deeply saddened" by the havoc wrought by the disaster and extends his "deepest condolences" to the families of those who have been killed, injured or made homeless by the earthquake. Obabe said that U.N. was in the process of forming inter-agency teams for an assessment of the quake-hit areas and make arrangements to provide relief to the victims.
Foreign Minister Makhdoom Shah Mehmood Qureshi said on Wednesday that Kuwait will provide food items to help people affected by the earthquake in Balochistan. While talking to mediapersons at the local airport, he said that federal government will extend complete assistance to help the Balochistan government and the people affected by the earthquake and expressed deep grief over the tragedy and offered heartfelt condolences for those who lost their lives. Foreign Minister said that he personally talked to the Balochistan Chief Minister by telephone to seek information about the incident. At present, the government is focusing on providing immediate relief to the affected people and rescue operation was in progress, he said and added that assessment of damage caused by the earthquake was being made. He said that Ambassador of Kuwait in Pakistan had contacted him to offer food items from the Kuwait government to the quake-affected people of Balochistan. He said that Chief Secretary Balochistan has been informed of the offer and Kuwait Ambassador has been requested to contact him.
Sources..Well..We have them..
UNICEF is ready to help children affected by earthquake.
Prime Minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani on Wednesday expressed shock and grief over the tragic earthquake that hit many parts of Balochistan and claimed numerous precious lives. The Prime Minister extended his heartfelt condolences to the families who lost their dear ones. He announced a monetary compensation of Rs. 300,000 for the survivors of each deceased person and Rs. 100,000 for the seriously injured. Gilani directed the Cabinet Division and National Disaster Management Authority to carry out relief work expeditiously, monitor relief activities in all affected areas and keep him posted on the estimates of damage to life and property. The Prime Minister, who is currently visiting Turkey, spoke to Governor Balochistan over telephone and asked the provincial government to ensure provision of proper free medical care to the injured as well as relief goods like tents, blankets and food items. He also assured that federal government would provide all necessary relief supplies to affected people. The Prime Minister also asked the PPP rank and file in Balochistan, general public and philanthropists to take active part in relief activities and help local authorities in providing assistance to the injured and displaced people.
Punjab Chief Minister, Mian Muhammad Shahbaz Sharif has announced relief assistance of Rs. 100 million for the earthquake affectees of Balochistan. He has also constituted a Task Force headed by Senior Advisor Sardar Zulfiqar Ali Khan Khosa which will not only provide edible items and medicines from four big cities of Punjab including Lahore, Multan, Rawalpindi and Faisalabad with the cooperation of National and Provincial Assembly Members but would also supervise other relief measures.
UNITED NATIONS: Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has expressed his grief over the loss of life and destruction of property caused by an earthquake in Pakistan's Balochistan province on Wednesday, and offered United Nations' help to meet humanitarian needs of the victims. "The United Nations has been in contact with Pakistani officials and is assessing the situation in collaboration with them," his spokesperson Marie Okabe told the regular noon briefing at UN Headquarters in New York. "The United Nations stands ready to lend its assistance to efforts to respond to humanitarian needs created by the disaster, including by using existing resources and providing grants from emergency funds, and to mobilize international support for that response, if required," she said. The spokesperson said the Secretary-General is "deeply saddened" by the havoc wrought by the disaster and extends his "deepest condolences" to the families of those who have been killed, injured or made homeless by the earthquake. Obabe said that U.N. was in the process of forming inter-agency teams for an assessment of the quake-hit areas and make arrangements to provide relief to the victims.
Foreign Minister Makhdoom Shah Mehmood Qureshi said on Wednesday that Kuwait will provide food items to help people affected by the earthquake in Balochistan. While talking to mediapersons at the local airport, he said that federal government will extend complete assistance to help the Balochistan government and the people affected by the earthquake and expressed deep grief over the tragedy and offered heartfelt condolences for those who lost their lives. Foreign Minister said that he personally talked to the Balochistan Chief Minister by telephone to seek information about the incident. At present, the government is focusing on providing immediate relief to the affected people and rescue operation was in progress, he said and added that assessment of damage caused by the earthquake was being made. He said that Ambassador of Kuwait in Pakistan had contacted him to offer food items from the Kuwait government to the quake-affected people of Balochistan. He said that Chief Secretary Balochistan has been informed of the offer and Kuwait Ambassador has been requested to contact him.
Sources..Well..We have them..
Wake up!
Without peaceful settlement of the conflicts in the region, from Baluchistan through Kurdistan into occupied Kurdish land in Turkey which is used to destabilize the whole region and beyond, cross-border oil and gas pipelines are not likely to be built..We do not bomb and commit mass murders, ethnically cleanings and genocidal "war-fares", having the U.N. Security council to wage war against a whole people as "terrorists" which have been violated in the most horrific ways for decades and crimes against humanity to get ourselves a pipe line! Or having psychopaths using it for their own purposes and ethnically cleanings or for Russia´s proxy wars, using others and make them suffer for their own purposes and their f***** Mafioso oil cartel!
So..Get in help to Baluchistan. There is no way there are going to be displacement of people there. Baluchistan is the Baluchis..
QUETTA, Pakistan – A strong earthquake struck before dawn Wednesday in impoverished southwestern Pakistan, killing at least 150 people, and turning thousands of homes of mud and timber homes into rubble. With some roads blocked by landslides, officials said army helicopters were ferrying hundreds of troops and medical teams to villages in the quake zone and had set up a field hospital in Quetta, the Baluchistan provincial capital, 50 miles from the epicenter. Officials said they were distributing thousands of tents, blankets and food packages and sending in earth-moving equipment to dig mass graves for those killed in the magnitude 6.4 quake. Many of those who survived were left with little more than the clothes they had slept in, and with winter approaching, temperatures were expected to drop to around freezing in coming nights in the region bordering Afghanistan. A magnitude 6.2 quake struck Wednesday evening, but appeared to cause little damage.
The worst-hit area from the first quake appeared to be Ziarat, where hundreds of mostly mud and timber houses were destroyed in five villages, Mayor Dilawar Kakar said. Some homes were buried in a landslide triggered by the quake, he said."Not a single house is intact," Kakar told Express News television. Maulana Abdul Samad, the minister for forests in Baluchistan, said at least 150 people were confirmed to have died. Kakar said hundreds of people have been injured and some 15,000 were homeless."I would like to appeal to the whole world for help. We need food, we need medicine. People need warm clothes, blankets because it is cold here," Kakar said.
Baluchistan is the Baluchis..Not some radioactive field as a gift to the rest of the world..
The worst-hit area from the first quake appeared to be Ziarat, where hundreds of mostly mud and timber houses were destroyed in five villages, Mayor Dilawar Kakar said. Some homes were buried in a landslide triggered by the quake, he said."Not a single house is intact," Kakar told Express News television. Maulana Abdul Samad, the minister for forests in Baluchistan, said at least 150 people were confirmed to have died. Kakar said hundreds of people have been injured and some 15,000 were homeless."I would like to appeal to the whole world for help. We need food, we need medicine. People need warm clothes, blankets because it is cold here," Kakar said.
Baluchistan is the Baluchis..Not some radioactive field as a gift to the rest of the world..
Translation..
They have empty their pantries, chewed their ways through the sheds and other countries banking rooms and let the arable land lie fallow at the expense of the Swedish peoples tax payers..
Well..It´s a lot of talking..
It´s not that hard to see that the psychopaths in Iran and Turkey which have cut of the waters all over the region, had the Kurds displaced and scattered all over the planet and let the arable land lie fallow at the expense of the Swedish tax payers and other peoples rights and lives, have a interest in Iraq. And have been stationed in Mosul from the very first day with a network to train people in Hezbollah camps, in Iran and in Istanbul all the way from Africa where suiciders and corrupt war lords living in London are doing their out most to contribute to a genocide taking place in Somalia which waters is occupied with navy´s from all over this planet and their weapon sales, while Somalis are being feed to the sharks, which truly don´t like to eat humans but are spitting them out.
So don´t give us some crap about fighting terrorism from the U.N. Security council instead of responding on calls for solutions and laying down arms from a people that have been violated and occupied by both the internationally community, Turkey, Syria and Iran in the most disgusting ways for decades, where the border is used to arm Hezbollah and destabilize the whole region at the expense of people all over the region! Where the Syrian government claims they have not enough equipment to monitor their border at the same time they buy everything they need from Russia and have the worst drought in four decades!
So don´t give us some crap about fighting terrorism from the U.N. Security council instead of responding on calls for solutions and laying down arms from a people that have been violated and occupied by both the internationally community, Turkey, Syria and Iran in the most disgusting ways for decades, where the border is used to arm Hezbollah and destabilize the whole region at the expense of people all over the region! Where the Syrian government claims they have not enough equipment to monitor their border at the same time they buy everything they need from Russia and have the worst drought in four decades!
So...What do they do in the Twilight Zone..Or in Al-Qaida's route through Syria..
BAGHDAD – For years, he operated along Syria's remote border. He provided young Arabs from as far away as Morocco and the Persian Gulf with passports, guides and weapons as they slipped into Iraq to wage war. But recently, the Iraqi man known as Abu Ghadiyah began doing even more — launching his own armed forays into his homeland, U.S. and Iraqi officials say. Finally the United States lashed out, frustrated it says, after years of vainly pressuring Syria to shut down his network supplying the Sunni insurgency.
The Americans carried out a bold daylight raid Sunday in a dusty farming community of mud and concrete houses known as Abu Kamal, just across the border in Syria. The U.S. says Abu Ghadiyah and several bodyguards were killed. Whatever Abu Ghadiyah's fate, the attack targeting him has become a seminal moment — casting rare light on the hidden, complex networks that recruit foreign fighters and then deliver them across Syria to the battlefields of Iraq.
Syria has long insisted it monitors the border and does all it can to stop weapons and fighters. The raid and U.S. documents — recently made public — indicate that insurgents operating in the Syrian border region are still providing the materiel that enables suicide attacks, bombings and ambushes to continue inside Iraq. Even as the insurgency has fallen on rough times the networks themselves have become more organized, the documents indicate.
The documents also shed light on the murky web of religious extremists, professional smugglers and corrupt Syrian intelligence officials who run the smuggling networks — some of whom view Syria's government in faraway Damascus with contempt. Until the raid, Abu Ghadiyah, whose real name was Badran Turki al-Mazidih, was mostly unknown outside a tight circle of Western and Iraqi intelligence officers. They tracked his movements, and the al-Qaida commanders who relied on his services, believing him a senior figure in al-Qaida in Iraq. Abu Ghadiyah housed his recruits both in Damascus and the Syrian port of Latakiya before moving them across the Iraqi border, one senior Iraqi security officer said Tuesday.
Scores of people are involved in the smuggling networks, officials say. But Iraqi police held special disdain for Abu Ghadiyah, a native of the northern Iraqi city of Mosul believed to be in his early 30s. Last May, Abu Ghadiyah led a dozen gunmen across the border and attacked an Iraqi police station in Qaim, killing 12 policemen, Iraqi police Lt. Col. Falah al-Dulaimi told The Associated Press on Tuesday. Syrian border guards prevented an Iraqi patrol from pursuing the gunmen back into Syria, the police officer said.
Documents include records of about 590 foreign volunteers who entered Iraq from Syria, according to the Combating Terrorism Center at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point. According to the documents, nearly 100 Syrian coordinators are involved in transporting foreign fighters through Syria. Some are professional smugglers apparently hired by al-Qaida in purely business deals. U.S. Treasury document says Abu Ghadiyah was appointed as al-Qaida in Iraq's logistics chief for Syria by the group's founder, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi.
The coordinators worked with the young Arab volunteers recorded in the Sinjar documents — most of whom came from Saudi Arabia and Libya, with others from as far away as Morocco, Algeria and Yemen. The volunteers made their way to Syria — some directly from their home countries and others by way of Egypt or Turkey — where they linked up with the coordinators. Some coordinators charged up to $2,500 to help the volunteer fighters reach Iraq. Once provided with passports and other documents, the volunteers traveled to border areas, where they entered Iraq on foot along with guides from local tribes.
Since 2004, Abu Ghadiyah has organized and supervised much of that traffic, according to U.S. officials. Interestingly, U.S. officials say they believe that Syria has tried from time to time to crack down on the smugglers and tighten controls along the 350-mile border, bolstering security patrols and erecting sand berms. Most of the inhabitants of the area originally come from areas of Iraq, and there are very strong family ties until this day," said Ahmed al-Khalifa, a lawyer from Abu Kamal. After Saddam Hussein's regime collapsed, Syria set up new checkpoints around the town to prevent more volunteers from getting to Iraq, the terrorism center report said. But in 2004 the Syrians relax the restrictions and allow more fighters — this time many of them Saudis — to enter Iraq, the report said. A third wave of volunteers began in 2006 as fighting between Iraqi Sunnis and Shiites intensified, the report said. The current wave is continuing, although at a lower level because many Iraqi Sunnis have abandoned the insurgency. There may be plenty of others to take Abu Ghadiyah's place, the U.S. says — including a brother Akram, and a cousin Ghazi Fezza al-Mazidih, whom the U.S. described in a February report as his "right hand man." Overall, the number of foreign fighters attracted to Iraq may be down, the West Point study cautioned, "But the logistical network to move them has become more organized."
Robert H. Reid, AP –Zeina Karam , Qassim Abdul-Zahra in Baghdad and Pamela Hess in Washington contributed to this report.
The Americans carried out a bold daylight raid Sunday in a dusty farming community of mud and concrete houses known as Abu Kamal, just across the border in Syria. The U.S. says Abu Ghadiyah and several bodyguards were killed. Whatever Abu Ghadiyah's fate, the attack targeting him has become a seminal moment — casting rare light on the hidden, complex networks that recruit foreign fighters and then deliver them across Syria to the battlefields of Iraq.
Syria has long insisted it monitors the border and does all it can to stop weapons and fighters. The raid and U.S. documents — recently made public — indicate that insurgents operating in the Syrian border region are still providing the materiel that enables suicide attacks, bombings and ambushes to continue inside Iraq. Even as the insurgency has fallen on rough times the networks themselves have become more organized, the documents indicate.
The documents also shed light on the murky web of religious extremists, professional smugglers and corrupt Syrian intelligence officials who run the smuggling networks — some of whom view Syria's government in faraway Damascus with contempt. Until the raid, Abu Ghadiyah, whose real name was Badran Turki al-Mazidih, was mostly unknown outside a tight circle of Western and Iraqi intelligence officers. They tracked his movements, and the al-Qaida commanders who relied on his services, believing him a senior figure in al-Qaida in Iraq. Abu Ghadiyah housed his recruits both in Damascus and the Syrian port of Latakiya before moving them across the Iraqi border, one senior Iraqi security officer said Tuesday.
Scores of people are involved in the smuggling networks, officials say. But Iraqi police held special disdain for Abu Ghadiyah, a native of the northern Iraqi city of Mosul believed to be in his early 30s. Last May, Abu Ghadiyah led a dozen gunmen across the border and attacked an Iraqi police station in Qaim, killing 12 policemen, Iraqi police Lt. Col. Falah al-Dulaimi told The Associated Press on Tuesday. Syrian border guards prevented an Iraqi patrol from pursuing the gunmen back into Syria, the police officer said.
Documents include records of about 590 foreign volunteers who entered Iraq from Syria, according to the Combating Terrorism Center at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point. According to the documents, nearly 100 Syrian coordinators are involved in transporting foreign fighters through Syria. Some are professional smugglers apparently hired by al-Qaida in purely business deals. U.S. Treasury document says Abu Ghadiyah was appointed as al-Qaida in Iraq's logistics chief for Syria by the group's founder, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi.
The coordinators worked with the young Arab volunteers recorded in the Sinjar documents — most of whom came from Saudi Arabia and Libya, with others from as far away as Morocco, Algeria and Yemen. The volunteers made their way to Syria — some directly from their home countries and others by way of Egypt or Turkey — where they linked up with the coordinators. Some coordinators charged up to $2,500 to help the volunteer fighters reach Iraq. Once provided with passports and other documents, the volunteers traveled to border areas, where they entered Iraq on foot along with guides from local tribes.
Since 2004, Abu Ghadiyah has organized and supervised much of that traffic, according to U.S. officials. Interestingly, U.S. officials say they believe that Syria has tried from time to time to crack down on the smugglers and tighten controls along the 350-mile border, bolstering security patrols and erecting sand berms. Most of the inhabitants of the area originally come from areas of Iraq, and there are very strong family ties until this day," said Ahmed al-Khalifa, a lawyer from Abu Kamal. After Saddam Hussein's regime collapsed, Syria set up new checkpoints around the town to prevent more volunteers from getting to Iraq, the terrorism center report said. But in 2004 the Syrians relax the restrictions and allow more fighters — this time many of them Saudis — to enter Iraq, the report said. A third wave of volunteers began in 2006 as fighting between Iraqi Sunnis and Shiites intensified, the report said. The current wave is continuing, although at a lower level because many Iraqi Sunnis have abandoned the insurgency. There may be plenty of others to take Abu Ghadiyah's place, the U.S. says — including a brother Akram, and a cousin Ghazi Fezza al-Mazidih, whom the U.S. described in a February report as his "right hand man." Overall, the number of foreign fighters attracted to Iraq may be down, the West Point study cautioned, "But the logistical network to move them has become more organized."
Robert H. Reid, AP –Zeina Karam , Qassim Abdul-Zahra in Baghdad and Pamela Hess in Washington contributed to this report.
The United Nations is appealing for aid to help Syria deal with the country's worst drought in four decades.
The UN is asking for $20.2 million to be allocated, mainly for herders and farmers whose livelihood has been damaged because of inconsistent of insufficient rainfalls. The Syrian government estimates that up to one million people are at risk of losing their livelihoods and suffering from malnutrition, according to the UN's Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA).
The average yield of basic crops has fallen, up to 59,000 herders have lost their herds and 47,000 herders have lost between half and 60 percent of their livestock. The appeal is to governments and non-governmental organizations to help the affected people for a period of six months. Damascus is distributing emergency assistance, but the required assistance is beyond its resources, OCHA said.
In addition, food prices have risen, Syrians' purchasing power has decreased and there are increasing signs of malnutrition among vulnerable populations such as children and pregnant women. The availability of drinking water has also decreased in the rural areas of north-east Syria, OCHA said, particularly in villages depending on protected wells as their sole source of water. The situation will be compounded if the upcoming winter does not bring adequate rainfall.
Syria is not the only country in the region suffering from lack of water. Due to low rainfalls in the usually wet period from March to May, an estimated 14.5 people in the Horn of Africa are in need of assistance, according to the World Food Programme. The affected countries include Ethiopia, Uganda, Somalia, Kenya and Djibouti. And in Israel, the country's largest freshwater lake has dropped to its lowest ever recorded water level. The Sea of Galilee currently stands at 214.06 meters below sea level. The Syrian government has offered to support some 29,000 families in the eastern region by providing financial support to small enterprises, exempting farmers from interest on loans and providing farmers with cereal seeds and fertilizers. But not only farmers are being affected by the drought. "It's also affecting those who breed livestock and people working for farmers in harvesting and transporting crops," said Lina Ibrahim, a journalist with the Syria Report. Ibrahim told The Media Line that the knock-on effect was a rise in unemployment in the country and migration from remote areas to the larger cities. Ongoing campaigns on television and in newspapers are urging Syrians to conserve water, but there are no new campaigns as a result of the specific current water crisis, Ibrahim said.
The Media Line website.
While others have to much of it..
GUWAHATI, India (Reuters) - Floods and landslides caused by three days of incessant rain killed six people and left thousands homeless in India's remote northeast, one of the country's most flood-prone regions, officials said on Wednesday.
Oct. 29 (Bloomberg) -- The death toll from floods in Yemen rose to 180 as the United Nations said it began providing assistance to communities affected in the east of the country. About 10,000 people were displaced from their homes after heavy rains Oct. 24-25 and the government has declared the eastern provinces of Hadramout and al-Mahara disaster areas, the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs said. Seventy-five percent of Hadramout's population has been affected by flooding, Mohammed al-Qubati of the Charitable Society for Social Welfare, a local group said. Drinking water has been mixed with sewage and this will lead to health hazards,'' he said.
The average yield of basic crops has fallen, up to 59,000 herders have lost their herds and 47,000 herders have lost between half and 60 percent of their livestock. The appeal is to governments and non-governmental organizations to help the affected people for a period of six months. Damascus is distributing emergency assistance, but the required assistance is beyond its resources, OCHA said.
In addition, food prices have risen, Syrians' purchasing power has decreased and there are increasing signs of malnutrition among vulnerable populations such as children and pregnant women. The availability of drinking water has also decreased in the rural areas of north-east Syria, OCHA said, particularly in villages depending on protected wells as their sole source of water. The situation will be compounded if the upcoming winter does not bring adequate rainfall.
Syria is not the only country in the region suffering from lack of water. Due to low rainfalls in the usually wet period from March to May, an estimated 14.5 people in the Horn of Africa are in need of assistance, according to the World Food Programme. The affected countries include Ethiopia, Uganda, Somalia, Kenya and Djibouti. And in Israel, the country's largest freshwater lake has dropped to its lowest ever recorded water level. The Sea of Galilee currently stands at 214.06 meters below sea level. The Syrian government has offered to support some 29,000 families in the eastern region by providing financial support to small enterprises, exempting farmers from interest on loans and providing farmers with cereal seeds and fertilizers. But not only farmers are being affected by the drought. "It's also affecting those who breed livestock and people working for farmers in harvesting and transporting crops," said Lina Ibrahim, a journalist with the Syria Report. Ibrahim told The Media Line that the knock-on effect was a rise in unemployment in the country and migration from remote areas to the larger cities. Ongoing campaigns on television and in newspapers are urging Syrians to conserve water, but there are no new campaigns as a result of the specific current water crisis, Ibrahim said.
The Media Line website.
While others have to much of it..
GUWAHATI, India (Reuters) - Floods and landslides caused by three days of incessant rain killed six people and left thousands homeless in India's remote northeast, one of the country's most flood-prone regions, officials said on Wednesday.
Oct. 29 (Bloomberg) -- The death toll from floods in Yemen rose to 180 as the United Nations said it began providing assistance to communities affected in the east of the country. About 10,000 people were displaced from their homes after heavy rains Oct. 24-25 and the government has declared the eastern provinces of Hadramout and al-Mahara disaster areas, the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs said. Seventy-five percent of Hadramout's population has been affected by flooding, Mohammed al-Qubati of the Charitable Society for Social Welfare, a local group said. Drinking water has been mixed with sewage and this will lead to health hazards,'' he said.
As if you didn´t know..
It´s the same crimes being committed against the Kurds as it always have been. And a displacement of Christians and Kurds, as it always have been done. The difference now is that the world body obviously will manipulate us to except crimes coming for the U.N. Security Council in the future!
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Daily Evrensel’s accountable desk editor Mehmet Uğraş Vatandaş and license holder Ahmet Sami Belek have been sentenced to one year in prison for publishing a declaration by the Kurdish Workers Party (PKK). The 14th High Criminal Court of Istanbul, which tried the case, did not even convert the sentence to a fine, let alone postpone it. Evrensel, according to its lawyer Devrim Avcı, already appealed the ruling, but it has not seen the legal background for the decision yet. The employers of the newspaper protested the court ruling against them at the press release they held at the Journalists Association of Turkey (TGC). Speaking at the press release, Evrensel’s desk editor Fatih Polat said Vatandaş and Belek had been punished for Çetin Diyar’s article titled “Son Pişmanlık Neye Yarar?” (What good is final regret), which published on December 10, 2007 and included a declaration of seven articles by the PKK under the title “Democratic Solution.”
The demands stated in the declaration were “the recognition of the Kurdish language”, “the removal of the obstacles in front of the Kurdish language and culture”, “recognition of the right to unhindered politics and association based on the freedom of thinking, belief and expression”, “the release of all the political prisoners”, “the abolishment of the system of Village protestors, a state-sponsored paramilitarist organization, and the return of the villagers back to their villages”, “the extension of the powers of the local administrations”, and “the initiation of the process that will enable the guerillas to lay down their arms in gradually, dates of which are to be determined by both sides, and join the political life.”
The attitudes of the President and the Chief of Staff affect the process negatively. ”Emphasizing how natural it is for a writer to discuss the arguments of the opposing sides, Polat argues that both Prime Minister’s attitude towards the media and the Chief of Staff’s explanations make it difficult for the judiciary to make decisions that put the freedom of expression before anything else. Polat also said, “the closing decisions against the newspapers Alternatif, Gelecek, Gerçek, Atılım and Azadiye Welat show that the judiciary is put in a sensitive situation in relation with the Kurdish Problem and that we are passing through a period during which the freedoms are easily sacrificed to the issue of safety.” Polat called upon the media’s professional organizations, the forces of the labor and democracy and their readers not to leave them alone.
Speaking on behalf of the Confederation of Public Worker’s Unions (KESK), Songül Beydilli said they protested the decision. President of Gıda-Iş (Union of Food Workers) Seyit Aslan said, “When we look at the developments in Turkey and the world, we see that those who are against this system, who are for uncovering the facts are under very serious pressure.” Another unionist Mehmet Demir and Broadcasting Coordinator of Hayat TV İskender Bayhan also showed their displeasure with the decision.
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KKK: Declaration for the Democratic Resolution of the Kurdish Question
The Middle East as a geographical region where there is heightened conflict continues to dominate the world’s agenda. Although this could be due to it being a place where the world system was formed, the main reason is due to the region not having democratizing. When a democratic culture is not fully developed, society and political forces are not respecting of the rights of each other, hence the results are conflicts. The reason and basis for the intervention of foreign forces is due to the fact that the political systems in the region are not democratic. One of the fundamental reasons why the Middle East cannot democratize is the fact that the Kurdish question remains left unresolved. This question is not resolved at the fundamental level, hence all the efforts to solve other issues in the region are ineffective and cannot bring stability. The responsibility for the question being left unresolved lies with both the international and regional forces. As a consequence, the Kurdish people have suffered grievously. However, the forces that are dominant over Kurdistan have not attained peace.
Without democratization, peace will not develop in the Middle East and the suspicions and anxiety felt by Arabs, Kurds, Turks, Persians, Assyrians, and Jewishs against each other will go on. The tension that has developed through this will inevitably lead to future conflict. The regional states, who have maintained policies according to a world shaped by the Lausanne Treaty, which denies the rights of the Kurdish people, have thus never acknowledged the Kurds as a people and shown the Kurds only force. These states do not have any positive policy towards the Kurds. They have only one policy and that is when Kurds seek their freedom, as is their right, they are suppressed with violence. Today this same mentality manifests itself in an anti-Kurdish alliance of Turkey, Iran and Syria. Throughout history the Kurds have resisted the same policy of annihilation and we have now reached a point of impasse. The pioneer of this mentality is the Turkish state with its policy of violence against the Kurdish people, which has resulted in much conflict and tension.
The new period in the world and in the Middle East and the achievements gained by the Kurdish Freedom Movement has put the states of Turkey and Iran into a mood of panic. They are both experiencing difficulties in continuing with their denial and annihilation policies. It is because of this that they have initiated a series of attacks against our movement since the spring. While Turkey is forming alliances with both Iran and Syria, it is also putting effort into strengthening alliances with the USA and the Iraqi state in order to develop this policy of confrontation. When it cannot achieve its aims it puts on the agenda cross border military operations.
Many groups of prominent people in Turkey and internationally, including many intellectuals, writers, civil society institutions and the South Kurdistan Federal Government, have issued proposals and calls on both sides for a ceasefire. Recently the USA Foreign Ministry Spokesman also made a call on our movement for a unilateral ceasefire and disarmament. Unfortunately, calls for unilateral efforts to resolve the conflict are not adequate. If this were the case, we would have put all our effort into doing unilaterally whatever was necessary to solve the issue. However, the history of our struggle has shown that unilateral actions are not enough to solve the issue. Public opinion also knows full well that the Leadership of our Movement has made numerous unilateral ceasefires during the years of 1993, 1995, and 1998 all in attempt to open the path to a democratic resolution. However, these did not bring a solution. In fact, the Turkish state used it as an opportunity to seek to liquidate our movement by increasing its attacks. When it became clear that all these efforts were inconclusive and with the call of our Leadership Abdullah Ocalan in Imrali on 2 August 1999 our movement abandoned the armed struggle strategy. Thus the guerrilla forces withdrew beyond the border of Turkey and positioned themselves in a line of self-defense. In this way our movement gave another opportunity to Turkey to freely find the will to resolve the issue without putting on any pressure. Turkey, which had no reason not to take step to resolve the issue, still did not show any will to adopt this course.
Turkey, despite pressures both internally and internationally, continued the denial and annihilation policies under new political conditions. They adopted measures, which could only be regarded as an insult to the Kurdish people, such as the permission for one hour weekly Kurdish television broadcasts and private Kurdish courses which opened under enormous restrictions. They openly declared their real intentions by repeating many times statements such as the following, “we have done what was necessary, so no-one should ask from us any other steps”.
We made several calls to the state of Turkey to stop the delay and annihilation by putting off into future policy. Nevertheless, on March 2003 in response to the creation of the Kurdish federation in Iraq Kurdistan following the intervention of the USA in Iraq, the Turkish state formed an alliance with Iran and Syria in fear of a larger Kurdistan. To put a stop to the growth in Kurdish freedom they re-initiated extensive military operations and pressure policies.
Against these attacks on 1 June 2004 the period of self-defense was forced on us. In our new struggle strategy the HPG (People’s Self-Defence Forces) is not a force pursuing struggle as an armed struggle but is engaged in armed self-defense against armed attacks on our people. In the face of attacks launched on us the new period began with the retaliatory actions of the HPG. On 12th of August 2005 our movement began a 1 month no action period as a friendly gesture to Prime Minister Erdogan’s speech in Diyarbakir and in response to peace efforts of a group of intellectuals to give a chance to peace and democratic solution. In reply, however, the Turkish military increased its attacks and as a result during the 1 month no action period the HPG forces losses multiplied fourfold. Prime Minister Erdogan by not following through his word supported the violence perpetrated by the military. The attempts at a peaceful political resolution and the actions of the Kurdish people were judged as weakness and desperation by the political tradition that is used to seeing everything in terms of force in arms and violence.
While the world has entered a period of dialogue in these types of issues as a solution, there is only one reason for the closing of all routes to dialogue with the Kurdish Freedom Movement and opting for annihilation. That is, the fact that the Turkish state is determined to follow its denial and annihilation policies because it depends on its military and political strength.
The Kurdish Freedom Movement is not the party which is running away from a peaceful solution to the question nor is it the one that is insistent on violence. We do not see violence as a method to solving the issue. On the contrary, we have made great sacrifices, unilaterally, for a democratic resolution and peace. If the interlocutors show the necessary will for a resolution there will be no obstacle preventing it. Like our Leadership declared years ago, we are searching for an interlocutor. If Turkey shows the will for a solution there will be a ceasefire in one day and the issue will move towards a solution. We have many times declared several proposals for a resolution and issued projects that could be rejected before public opinion. However, no serious proposals for a solution have been put in front of us. For this reason we are not responsible for the current crisis and the continuing conflict. Despite all this, our movement has acted responsibly, demonstrated every possible effort and sensitivity so as not to escalate the conflict and exceed the limits of self-defense.
We believe that the current crisis and conflict brings harm to the Turkish, Kurdish and indeed all the peoples of the Middle East. For this reason and having taken into account the calls and desire for peace of some international forces, international institutions, and various circles, and in the framework of Leadership’s latest peace calls, we have decided to take a new step. With this objective, we as the Kurdish Freedom Movement of Koma Komalen Kurdistan (KKK, Confederalism of Kurdistan) Executive Council came together during 7-9 August 2006, discussed the situation and decided that for peace and democracy a new period must be initiated. To this end the Turkish state must issue a statement to show the will for dialogue and solution, cease its attacks and end the heavy isolation conditions on our Leadership. These are not conditions; these are steps that any side needs to take in order to make a good gesture. If these positive steps are taken by the Turkish state, Koma Komalên Kurdistan Executive Council will make all necessary efforts for the development of a ceasefire by the HPG. 1st September World Peace Day is an important opportunity to start such a process.
Our people and movement will do whatever necessary from this day on to voice every opportunity for peace and democratic solution and we will increase our democratic actions on 1st September. The Turkish state, from its side, can follow its democratic will in the development of this process by showing peaceful efforts. The two sides can develop a basis, with these steps to cease the conflict, and then the possibility of the second phase can come onto the agenda. The second phase will be the start of the democratic solution of the Kurdish question. A perspective of democratic autonomy within the borders of Turkey, which enables the freedom of the Kurdish question, can be a pivotal for a permanent solution.
The framework for the steps that need to be developed mutually in the second phase for a permanent solution:
1- The acknowledgement of the Kurdish identity and the constitutional guarantee of all identities under the identity of a Citizen of Turkey as the main identity,
2- The lifting of obstacles on the development of the Kurdish language and culture, the acknowledgement of education in the mother tongue and Kurdish acknowledged as the official second language alongside Turkish in the Kurdistan region, and with this to show respect to other minority cultures,
3- The acknowledgement, on the basis of freely practicing politics and organizing, of the right to thought, belief and freedom of expression, the lifting of all social inequalities in the constitution and laws, firstly being those of gender discrimination,
4- A social reconciliation project with the aim of mutual forgiveness of both people’s for the development of a peace and freedom union, on this basis the release of political prisoners including the PKK Leadership, and no obstacles to them participating in politics and social life,
5- The removal of forces in Kurdistan there for the purposes of special war, the abolition of the village guard system and the necessary social and political projects to be developed for the return of displaced villagers,
6- In parallel to the realization of the above articles, the initiation, with a timetable determined by both parties, of the gradual disarmament and legal participation into the democratic social life.
The permanent solution to the Kurdish question in Turkey can be developed with the carrying out of these fundamental issues. This also means that Turkey will become a fully democratic country. The resolution of the Kurdish question in Turkey will also mean the democratic resolution of the Kurdish question, within the current borders, in Iran and Syria. The resolution of the Kurdish question within these countries will mean the democratization of the Middle East. When suspicion and anxiety is eradicated in such a condition a period will develop for solutions to all the outstanding issues of the region.
It is quite clear that the resolution to the Kurdish question by this means will be for the benefit of the international forces and the people of the region, not the contrary. Stability and peace can only be developed within the democratic solution to the Kurdish question and from a perspective of democratizing the Middle East. Again friendship amongst peoples, mutual respect and a just system can only be sustained within such a project. When the reality is clear to develop annihilation plans with violence against the Kurdish freedom movement only ends in conflict and instability that does not benefit any party.
It should be acknowledged today that the PKK and its Leadership is the fundamental reality of the Kurdish people. Today to try to separate them from one another, to pursue a no PKK and Ocalan solution search will only push the issue into an impasse and lead to the deepening of the conflict. This is a very important issue that needs to be seen by all forces for a lasting and right development of the solution. The solution projects of our leader Ocalan do not only concern the Kurds but represent a freedom and democracy project for the entire peoples of the Middle East. The just solution of the problems among the people including the Palestine and Israel conflict and the development of stability can only be developed through this perspective.
The named mechanism of representatives from USA, Turkey and Iraq, on the basis that it aims for the deep-rooted solution of the issue, dialogue, and democratic solution, we as the Kurdish side will show the necessary effort and commitment for the solution of the question. In such case a Kurdish representative should be represented in the mechanism, in which our people and movement can trust. However, in a contrary case, if it is on the basis of the violence policies that Turkey has pursued over the years the Kurdish people will not accept this, it is quite clear that this can only escalate conflicts and deepen the impasse.
It is understandable that Turkey, which has no other policy besides denial and annihilation, desires the USA to attack the Kurdish Freedom Movement. However, there is no logic and explanation in the USA attacking the PKK. It is against the interests of the USA and the allied forces who say that they are in lines of democratic mentality to confront the Kurdish Freedom Movement which is struggling for this. The democratic people’s reality that the movement developed can easily be seen in the stance of the people of Diyarbakir (Amed), which is the symbol of the Kurdish people. We also believe that the interest of the international forces passes through the acceptance and respect to the will shown by the people of Amed.
It is an undisputable reality that the liquidation of the Kurdish Freedom Movement is a loss for the people and organizations of South Kurdistan and all the Kurds. The forces that are insistent on the denial of the Kurds in the region want to weaken the hands of the Kurds by annihilating our movement and hence believe they can have the upper hand in the policies in the Middle East. By these means they foresee that the international forces will come to point of acceptance of their policy of denial. We believe that all Kurds are aware of this. In this framework we call on the South Kurdistan Federal Government and parties to adopt a stance against all annihilation policies, and to make every effort for the peaceful and democratic resolution of the Kurdish question. We indicate that we will be in a positive and participative position in any act of effort along these lines.
Although international forces and regional countries can play a facilitating role the place for solution of the question in North Kurdistan and its interlocutor is Turkey. Turkey must accept that the solution will be with the Kurds living in Turkey. Turkey must see that by urging the USA to join its alliance against our organization, establishing an anti-Kurdish alliance with Iran and Syria and attacking our forces, pressuring the KDP and PUK and by sending troops to Lebanon to show the international community a positive image, will not solve the problem. The Turkish state instead of executing an anti Kurdish Freedom Movement diplomatic relations, and giving concessions after concessions, should listen to the calls of the Kurdish people and its Leadership, the issue is the condition where it can be resolved in a shorter period. Because the project that we have developed contains the most reasonable conditions, it expresses the interests of both sides. In reality if the denial, annihilation and chauvinistic outlook are put to one side it will be seen that this solution benefits the interests of Turkey.
On this basis within the framework of friendship among the Kurdish, Turkish, Arab and all regional peoples, we believe that all issues can be resolved through dialogue and peaceful methods in a just democratic system. We do not take the view that armed conflict is a method to resolve the issues. However, where human honour, dignity and fundamental human values are violated and no other means are left to defend them, we recognize as the UN has also accepted under international law that there is the right to armed resistance, within the framework of self-defence all resistance is legitimate and a legal right. All other armed violence apart from this we see as terror and we condemn them.
For the solution to the issues amongst peoples and for the development of a free democratic system we see this perspective as an important and contemporary one in the solution of such issues. We call on the international and regional media circles, intellectuals, writers, and all who are on the side of democracy to recognize our democratic and peaceful solution project and to take a stand against the annihilation policies on the basis of violence of the Turkish state. We would like as a movement to emphasize once again that the right solution is a democratic autonomy within the borders of Turkey. We believe that a solution in the unity of Turkey will be for the benefit of firstly the Kurdish people and all the people of the region. We call once again on all international and regional political forces and democratic circles to make an effort to start the democratic solution, to work for its success and to support the democratic resolution of the Kurdish question within the political borders of Turkey.
Koma Komalen Kurdistan(KKK, Confederalism of Kurdistan)
Executive Council
20 August 2006
The demands stated in the declaration were “the recognition of the Kurdish language”, “the removal of the obstacles in front of the Kurdish language and culture”, “recognition of the right to unhindered politics and association based on the freedom of thinking, belief and expression”, “the release of all the political prisoners”, “the abolishment of the system of Village protestors, a state-sponsored paramilitarist organization, and the return of the villagers back to their villages”, “the extension of the powers of the local administrations”, and “the initiation of the process that will enable the guerillas to lay down their arms in gradually, dates of which are to be determined by both sides, and join the political life.”
The attitudes of the President and the Chief of Staff affect the process negatively. ”Emphasizing how natural it is for a writer to discuss the arguments of the opposing sides, Polat argues that both Prime Minister’s attitude towards the media and the Chief of Staff’s explanations make it difficult for the judiciary to make decisions that put the freedom of expression before anything else. Polat also said, “the closing decisions against the newspapers Alternatif, Gelecek, Gerçek, Atılım and Azadiye Welat show that the judiciary is put in a sensitive situation in relation with the Kurdish Problem and that we are passing through a period during which the freedoms are easily sacrificed to the issue of safety.” Polat called upon the media’s professional organizations, the forces of the labor and democracy and their readers not to leave them alone.
Speaking on behalf of the Confederation of Public Worker’s Unions (KESK), Songül Beydilli said they protested the decision. President of Gıda-Iş (Union of Food Workers) Seyit Aslan said, “When we look at the developments in Turkey and the world, we see that those who are against this system, who are for uncovering the facts are under very serious pressure.” Another unionist Mehmet Demir and Broadcasting Coordinator of Hayat TV İskender Bayhan also showed their displeasure with the decision.
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KKK: Declaration for the Democratic Resolution of the Kurdish Question
The Middle East as a geographical region where there is heightened conflict continues to dominate the world’s agenda. Although this could be due to it being a place where the world system was formed, the main reason is due to the region not having democratizing. When a democratic culture is not fully developed, society and political forces are not respecting of the rights of each other, hence the results are conflicts. The reason and basis for the intervention of foreign forces is due to the fact that the political systems in the region are not democratic. One of the fundamental reasons why the Middle East cannot democratize is the fact that the Kurdish question remains left unresolved. This question is not resolved at the fundamental level, hence all the efforts to solve other issues in the region are ineffective and cannot bring stability. The responsibility for the question being left unresolved lies with both the international and regional forces. As a consequence, the Kurdish people have suffered grievously. However, the forces that are dominant over Kurdistan have not attained peace.
Without democratization, peace will not develop in the Middle East and the suspicions and anxiety felt by Arabs, Kurds, Turks, Persians, Assyrians, and Jewishs against each other will go on. The tension that has developed through this will inevitably lead to future conflict. The regional states, who have maintained policies according to a world shaped by the Lausanne Treaty, which denies the rights of the Kurdish people, have thus never acknowledged the Kurds as a people and shown the Kurds only force. These states do not have any positive policy towards the Kurds. They have only one policy and that is when Kurds seek their freedom, as is their right, they are suppressed with violence. Today this same mentality manifests itself in an anti-Kurdish alliance of Turkey, Iran and Syria. Throughout history the Kurds have resisted the same policy of annihilation and we have now reached a point of impasse. The pioneer of this mentality is the Turkish state with its policy of violence against the Kurdish people, which has resulted in much conflict and tension.
The new period in the world and in the Middle East and the achievements gained by the Kurdish Freedom Movement has put the states of Turkey and Iran into a mood of panic. They are both experiencing difficulties in continuing with their denial and annihilation policies. It is because of this that they have initiated a series of attacks against our movement since the spring. While Turkey is forming alliances with both Iran and Syria, it is also putting effort into strengthening alliances with the USA and the Iraqi state in order to develop this policy of confrontation. When it cannot achieve its aims it puts on the agenda cross border military operations.
Many groups of prominent people in Turkey and internationally, including many intellectuals, writers, civil society institutions and the South Kurdistan Federal Government, have issued proposals and calls on both sides for a ceasefire. Recently the USA Foreign Ministry Spokesman also made a call on our movement for a unilateral ceasefire and disarmament. Unfortunately, calls for unilateral efforts to resolve the conflict are not adequate. If this were the case, we would have put all our effort into doing unilaterally whatever was necessary to solve the issue. However, the history of our struggle has shown that unilateral actions are not enough to solve the issue. Public opinion also knows full well that the Leadership of our Movement has made numerous unilateral ceasefires during the years of 1993, 1995, and 1998 all in attempt to open the path to a democratic resolution. However, these did not bring a solution. In fact, the Turkish state used it as an opportunity to seek to liquidate our movement by increasing its attacks. When it became clear that all these efforts were inconclusive and with the call of our Leadership Abdullah Ocalan in Imrali on 2 August 1999 our movement abandoned the armed struggle strategy. Thus the guerrilla forces withdrew beyond the border of Turkey and positioned themselves in a line of self-defense. In this way our movement gave another opportunity to Turkey to freely find the will to resolve the issue without putting on any pressure. Turkey, which had no reason not to take step to resolve the issue, still did not show any will to adopt this course.
Turkey, despite pressures both internally and internationally, continued the denial and annihilation policies under new political conditions. They adopted measures, which could only be regarded as an insult to the Kurdish people, such as the permission for one hour weekly Kurdish television broadcasts and private Kurdish courses which opened under enormous restrictions. They openly declared their real intentions by repeating many times statements such as the following, “we have done what was necessary, so no-one should ask from us any other steps”.
We made several calls to the state of Turkey to stop the delay and annihilation by putting off into future policy. Nevertheless, on March 2003 in response to the creation of the Kurdish federation in Iraq Kurdistan following the intervention of the USA in Iraq, the Turkish state formed an alliance with Iran and Syria in fear of a larger Kurdistan. To put a stop to the growth in Kurdish freedom they re-initiated extensive military operations and pressure policies.
Against these attacks on 1 June 2004 the period of self-defense was forced on us. In our new struggle strategy the HPG (People’s Self-Defence Forces) is not a force pursuing struggle as an armed struggle but is engaged in armed self-defense against armed attacks on our people. In the face of attacks launched on us the new period began with the retaliatory actions of the HPG. On 12th of August 2005 our movement began a 1 month no action period as a friendly gesture to Prime Minister Erdogan’s speech in Diyarbakir and in response to peace efforts of a group of intellectuals to give a chance to peace and democratic solution. In reply, however, the Turkish military increased its attacks and as a result during the 1 month no action period the HPG forces losses multiplied fourfold. Prime Minister Erdogan by not following through his word supported the violence perpetrated by the military. The attempts at a peaceful political resolution and the actions of the Kurdish people were judged as weakness and desperation by the political tradition that is used to seeing everything in terms of force in arms and violence.
While the world has entered a period of dialogue in these types of issues as a solution, there is only one reason for the closing of all routes to dialogue with the Kurdish Freedom Movement and opting for annihilation. That is, the fact that the Turkish state is determined to follow its denial and annihilation policies because it depends on its military and political strength.
The Kurdish Freedom Movement is not the party which is running away from a peaceful solution to the question nor is it the one that is insistent on violence. We do not see violence as a method to solving the issue. On the contrary, we have made great sacrifices, unilaterally, for a democratic resolution and peace. If the interlocutors show the necessary will for a resolution there will be no obstacle preventing it. Like our Leadership declared years ago, we are searching for an interlocutor. If Turkey shows the will for a solution there will be a ceasefire in one day and the issue will move towards a solution. We have many times declared several proposals for a resolution and issued projects that could be rejected before public opinion. However, no serious proposals for a solution have been put in front of us. For this reason we are not responsible for the current crisis and the continuing conflict. Despite all this, our movement has acted responsibly, demonstrated every possible effort and sensitivity so as not to escalate the conflict and exceed the limits of self-defense.
We believe that the current crisis and conflict brings harm to the Turkish, Kurdish and indeed all the peoples of the Middle East. For this reason and having taken into account the calls and desire for peace of some international forces, international institutions, and various circles, and in the framework of Leadership’s latest peace calls, we have decided to take a new step. With this objective, we as the Kurdish Freedom Movement of Koma Komalen Kurdistan (KKK, Confederalism of Kurdistan) Executive Council came together during 7-9 August 2006, discussed the situation and decided that for peace and democracy a new period must be initiated. To this end the Turkish state must issue a statement to show the will for dialogue and solution, cease its attacks and end the heavy isolation conditions on our Leadership. These are not conditions; these are steps that any side needs to take in order to make a good gesture. If these positive steps are taken by the Turkish state, Koma Komalên Kurdistan Executive Council will make all necessary efforts for the development of a ceasefire by the HPG. 1st September World Peace Day is an important opportunity to start such a process.
Our people and movement will do whatever necessary from this day on to voice every opportunity for peace and democratic solution and we will increase our democratic actions on 1st September. The Turkish state, from its side, can follow its democratic will in the development of this process by showing peaceful efforts. The two sides can develop a basis, with these steps to cease the conflict, and then the possibility of the second phase can come onto the agenda. The second phase will be the start of the democratic solution of the Kurdish question. A perspective of democratic autonomy within the borders of Turkey, which enables the freedom of the Kurdish question, can be a pivotal for a permanent solution.
The framework for the steps that need to be developed mutually in the second phase for a permanent solution:
1- The acknowledgement of the Kurdish identity and the constitutional guarantee of all identities under the identity of a Citizen of Turkey as the main identity,
2- The lifting of obstacles on the development of the Kurdish language and culture, the acknowledgement of education in the mother tongue and Kurdish acknowledged as the official second language alongside Turkish in the Kurdistan region, and with this to show respect to other minority cultures,
3- The acknowledgement, on the basis of freely practicing politics and organizing, of the right to thought, belief and freedom of expression, the lifting of all social inequalities in the constitution and laws, firstly being those of gender discrimination,
4- A social reconciliation project with the aim of mutual forgiveness of both people’s for the development of a peace and freedom union, on this basis the release of political prisoners including the PKK Leadership, and no obstacles to them participating in politics and social life,
5- The removal of forces in Kurdistan there for the purposes of special war, the abolition of the village guard system and the necessary social and political projects to be developed for the return of displaced villagers,
6- In parallel to the realization of the above articles, the initiation, with a timetable determined by both parties, of the gradual disarmament and legal participation into the democratic social life.
The permanent solution to the Kurdish question in Turkey can be developed with the carrying out of these fundamental issues. This also means that Turkey will become a fully democratic country. The resolution of the Kurdish question in Turkey will also mean the democratic resolution of the Kurdish question, within the current borders, in Iran and Syria. The resolution of the Kurdish question within these countries will mean the democratization of the Middle East. When suspicion and anxiety is eradicated in such a condition a period will develop for solutions to all the outstanding issues of the region.
It is quite clear that the resolution to the Kurdish question by this means will be for the benefit of the international forces and the people of the region, not the contrary. Stability and peace can only be developed within the democratic solution to the Kurdish question and from a perspective of democratizing the Middle East. Again friendship amongst peoples, mutual respect and a just system can only be sustained within such a project. When the reality is clear to develop annihilation plans with violence against the Kurdish freedom movement only ends in conflict and instability that does not benefit any party.
It should be acknowledged today that the PKK and its Leadership is the fundamental reality of the Kurdish people. Today to try to separate them from one another, to pursue a no PKK and Ocalan solution search will only push the issue into an impasse and lead to the deepening of the conflict. This is a very important issue that needs to be seen by all forces for a lasting and right development of the solution. The solution projects of our leader Ocalan do not only concern the Kurds but represent a freedom and democracy project for the entire peoples of the Middle East. The just solution of the problems among the people including the Palestine and Israel conflict and the development of stability can only be developed through this perspective.
The named mechanism of representatives from USA, Turkey and Iraq, on the basis that it aims for the deep-rooted solution of the issue, dialogue, and democratic solution, we as the Kurdish side will show the necessary effort and commitment for the solution of the question. In such case a Kurdish representative should be represented in the mechanism, in which our people and movement can trust. However, in a contrary case, if it is on the basis of the violence policies that Turkey has pursued over the years the Kurdish people will not accept this, it is quite clear that this can only escalate conflicts and deepen the impasse.
It is understandable that Turkey, which has no other policy besides denial and annihilation, desires the USA to attack the Kurdish Freedom Movement. However, there is no logic and explanation in the USA attacking the PKK. It is against the interests of the USA and the allied forces who say that they are in lines of democratic mentality to confront the Kurdish Freedom Movement which is struggling for this. The democratic people’s reality that the movement developed can easily be seen in the stance of the people of Diyarbakir (Amed), which is the symbol of the Kurdish people. We also believe that the interest of the international forces passes through the acceptance and respect to the will shown by the people of Amed.
It is an undisputable reality that the liquidation of the Kurdish Freedom Movement is a loss for the people and organizations of South Kurdistan and all the Kurds. The forces that are insistent on the denial of the Kurds in the region want to weaken the hands of the Kurds by annihilating our movement and hence believe they can have the upper hand in the policies in the Middle East. By these means they foresee that the international forces will come to point of acceptance of their policy of denial. We believe that all Kurds are aware of this. In this framework we call on the South Kurdistan Federal Government and parties to adopt a stance against all annihilation policies, and to make every effort for the peaceful and democratic resolution of the Kurdish question. We indicate that we will be in a positive and participative position in any act of effort along these lines.
Although international forces and regional countries can play a facilitating role the place for solution of the question in North Kurdistan and its interlocutor is Turkey. Turkey must accept that the solution will be with the Kurds living in Turkey. Turkey must see that by urging the USA to join its alliance against our organization, establishing an anti-Kurdish alliance with Iran and Syria and attacking our forces, pressuring the KDP and PUK and by sending troops to Lebanon to show the international community a positive image, will not solve the problem. The Turkish state instead of executing an anti Kurdish Freedom Movement diplomatic relations, and giving concessions after concessions, should listen to the calls of the Kurdish people and its Leadership, the issue is the condition where it can be resolved in a shorter period. Because the project that we have developed contains the most reasonable conditions, it expresses the interests of both sides. In reality if the denial, annihilation and chauvinistic outlook are put to one side it will be seen that this solution benefits the interests of Turkey.
On this basis within the framework of friendship among the Kurdish, Turkish, Arab and all regional peoples, we believe that all issues can be resolved through dialogue and peaceful methods in a just democratic system. We do not take the view that armed conflict is a method to resolve the issues. However, where human honour, dignity and fundamental human values are violated and no other means are left to defend them, we recognize as the UN has also accepted under international law that there is the right to armed resistance, within the framework of self-defence all resistance is legitimate and a legal right. All other armed violence apart from this we see as terror and we condemn them.
For the solution to the issues amongst peoples and for the development of a free democratic system we see this perspective as an important and contemporary one in the solution of such issues. We call on the international and regional media circles, intellectuals, writers, and all who are on the side of democracy to recognize our democratic and peaceful solution project and to take a stand against the annihilation policies on the basis of violence of the Turkish state. We would like as a movement to emphasize once again that the right solution is a democratic autonomy within the borders of Turkey. We believe that a solution in the unity of Turkey will be for the benefit of firstly the Kurdish people and all the people of the region. We call once again on all international and regional political forces and democratic circles to make an effort to start the democratic solution, to work for its success and to support the democratic resolution of the Kurdish question within the political borders of Turkey.
Koma Komalen Kurdistan(KKK, Confederalism of Kurdistan)
Executive Council
20 August 2006
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