The Turkish state has had a stated policy of forced assimilation of the Kurds in Turkey since the early 20′s. This has been accompanied by forced depopulations, torture, extra-judicial killings and disappearances that have been widely documented by every serious and major human rights organisation and the European Court of Human Rights. The true number of people killed during and as a result of the forced deportations alone must surely run at close to a MILLION, but I notice that those figures are NEVER included within any official report.
These are undisputed facts that are very much underestimated. The true picture is much worse. When you take into account the every day racism suffered by Kurdish people in Turkey. The fact that this racism was not just intentionally encouraged by the Turkish regime, but literately and intentionally instigated by them through their education and media systems.
Because of the way history is taught in Turkey many Turkish people know absolutely nothing about the history of the repression of the Kurdish people and so accept the Turkish state propoganda about the PKK being a ‘terrorist’ group just popping up out of nowhere for no apparent reason other than to destroy Turkey and steal Turkish land.
erDOGan will not be able to change the way Nationalist Turks feel about Kurds and I do not know of a single Kurd who is even part way willing to forgive or forget what Turkey has done to them. Nor do I believe that the young Kurds have any intention of giving up their quest for FREEDOM. So exactly what is erDOG up to? I am certain that he has some devious plan in his evil little brain, and even more certain that I we are not going to like it
