The Turkish parliament is expected this week to approve a request from the prime minister to send soldiers into northern Iraq, to fight Kurdish PKK guerrillas. Many Turkish people would support suc...
The Turkish parliament is expected this week to approve a request from the prime minister to send soldiers into northern Iraq, to fight Kurdish PKK guerrillas. Many Turkish people would support such an action, but Turkey's Kurdish minority finds itself caught in the middle. Hundreds of thousands of Kurds fled from the south-east during fighting in the 1990s. Barnaby Phillips has been to a Kurdish neighbourhood in Istanbul, to see what people now feel about the rising tensions. Turkey's economy is humming these days- in Istanbul's textile factories, its often young Kurdish men doing the work.Nezir runs this place - he comes from Sirnak, on the Iraqi border - he's given jobs to all his cousins and friends -- a tight community, in what can be an unwelcoming city.
"I wish that my home in Sirnak was known for its beauty and history- and not for terrorist attacks. People hear every day about soldiers being killed there - so when I tell people in Istanbul that I am from Sirnak, they can be suspicious." Nezir is well-known on these streets. He has a tragic story - his father and grandfather were killed by PKK fighters after the Turkish army made them work as guards - this community's history is steeped in violence. Nezir took us to meet another Kurdish family.the army destroyed their village years ago, forcing them to come here - they watch a Kurdish station, broadcast from Europe - here showing PKK fighters- but they dread more violence - just talking about it made this man too afraid to show his face.
"I don't think a military operation will solve the problem. Instead they should try to win back the people there. But if they just put our people in jail with no evidence, then we lose our trust in the state. With dialogue, we can solve the problem in one year that we haven't yet solved in 25 years." In this mainly Kurdish neighbourhood people find themselves in a very difficult situation ... they feel their language and culture are discriminated against, but they want to live in peace with other Turkish people. And they fear that if there is a return to full-scale war, they will be amongst the losers. For Istanbul's Kurds, the holiday weekend at least brought the chance to relax. But everyone here knows there may be difficult days ahead- days of doubt and worry.
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Turkler neden bizim ulkemizden siktirip gitmiyor? Turk olmak istiyosaniz, Turkistana gidin. Orta Asya'ya gidin. Sizin boktan yurtunuz oradir. Anatolya bizimdir. Yunanlarin, Kurtlerin ve Ermenilerin "Turkiye"yi hirsizlardan geri almalari lazim.
Sizin gibi gerizekali olsaydim, su yazdigim sacmaliga inanirdim. Sevsenizde sevmesenizde, Turklerin ve Kurtlerin ic ice yasamalari lazim. Sagci fasist kopekler seslerini kesseler, Turkiye Kurtlere haklarini verse, butun sorunlar cozulur.
All of people around the world know that Turkish army doesn't kill innocent people. Don't lie any more morons ... Turkish army just hunting terrorist Kurdish who is member of pkk ...
You mother fucker kurdish people, all of you are a virus that we must clean up it..
OBS PSYkO , when TURkey came into KURDISTAN they bomb villages and kill many innocent people, and i was watching it live . ANd haha please TURKS ARE LIER they didnt killed 250 pkk , they just say so in media to calm the people. And pkk had kidnapped around 10 turkish soldier and after some days they did let them go, SO IF PKK IS TERRORSIT THEN WHY IN GODS NAME DID THEY LET THEM GO , PLEASE ANSWER THAT FOR ME IN GOOD WAY !!!
mediterianturc , please stop lie ok ? , just so u know your fact , kurd have been MANY yers longer than turks have, and if your best friend is a KURD , than how the fuck can he say after that hes a TURK ?:S please STFU u DONT know what u talk about
im not turk or kurd. im not even middleeastern. im just a peace freak. and this issue is gettin to ma head cuz i dont understand what exactly the problem is. im against vilionce. but if the kurds are so bad why dont turkey give them their own state like iraq. and there wont be any porblem. (srry for spellin)
Kurdish people Fuck off my country ..You are looking like to the araps ..Very comic ..You are breaking down our modern culture..The iran , The syria , the iraq,It isn't important Sufficient that, Go..!!
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Sizin gibi gerizekali olsaydim, su yazdigim sacmaliga inanirdim. Sevsenizde sevmesenizde, Turklerin ve Kurtlerin ic ice yasamalari lazim. Sagci fasist kopekler seslerini kesseler, Turkiye Kurtlere haklarini verse, butun sorunlar cozulur.
You mother fucker kurdish people, all of you are a virus that we must clean up it..