Author: Nalbandian Albert

HE WAS BEATEN

A1+
[01:00 pm] 15 November, 2007

An hour ago the car in which was Narek Galstyan, chairman of "Sargis
Tkhruni" Youth Student Union of "Hnchak Social Democratic Party"
was stopped in the street. Narek was beaten severely and taken to
Nor-Nork hospital.

Narek’s father informed "A1+" that his son was in reanimation
department and his condition was serious.

The individuality of the attackers is unknown.

According to Narek’s father, the three men were in masks.

"I connect this with the leaflets and I do not know why people are
beaten in Armenia", said Mihran Galstyan, Narek’s father.

We should remind that Narek Galstyan was brought to the police
department three days ago for disseminating leaflets on the
gathering. According to the circulating information, "An Armenian
will deny Serge Sargsyan" was written on the leaflets.

SHAME ON US FOR WEAK STANCE ON TURKEY
By Theodore M. Polychronis

Hellenic News of America, PA
Nov 14 2007

Regarding recognition of the Armenian Genocide in the U.S. Congress
(?Genocide vote gets postponed,? Oct. 27): When the Iranian President
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad questioned the genocide perpetrated against the
Jews by Adolf Hitler, our entire administration and Congress, as well
as some academics (such as the infamous Columbia University President
Lee C. Bollinger), protested vehemently and expressed moral outrage.

Many of these people are urging severe punishment of Iran, including
going to war against it.

To my knowledge, the Germans did not deny their crimes committed
against the Jews, and we never concerned ourselves with their feelings
during the Nuremberg trials and later, and as far as I know they
continue to pay reparations to this date. We did the moral thing.

advertisement When a nonbinding resolution is introduced in our
U.S. Congress to call the genocide perpetrated against the Armenians
by the Turks?

only about 20 years before Hitler ? a genocide, our administration
and pathetic Congress go wild and refuse to do so, lest the Turks be
offended. They then proceed to present the arguments that our entire
Iraq war effort will collapse and that, if the Turks are upset, this
will have dire effects on the national security of the United States.

And they proceed to laud Turkey as being the only ?secular democracy?

in the region, and if we pass such a nonbinding resolution
(acknowledging a historical event) all will be lost forever. The
position of our administration and Congress in this affair is
unacceptable, shameful and immoral. The fact of the matter is that
the genocide against the Armenian population in Turkey did occur,
as did the genocide against the Greek populations in the region at
about the same time, and the refusal of our elected representatives
to accept it does not alter this fact.

To dispel some of the myths perpetrated by the well-funded Turkish
lobby and their powerful agents here in the U.S., the present-day
Turkey is not, in my opinion, a democracy and has never been one.

Turkey depends on the U.S. and its handouts. Until recently, and
probably still today, Turkey has been a large recipient of U.S. aid,
military and economic.

Turkey is an international outlaw nation, maintaining after more than
30 years a disputed occupation of part of the Republic of Cyprus,
maintaining a blockade of the Republic of Armenia, threatening Kurdish
Iraq, threatening Greece and its Aegean islands and continuously
violating the Greek airspace.

The ?democratic? Turkish state, which imprisons people for ?insulting
Turkishness,? has embarked on a campaign against the large Kurdish
minority.

Sadly, our U.S. press and media collaborate with the Turks and go
to great lengths to present them in a favorable light, in spite of
facts. An example was the newspapers calling the recently elected
Turkish President Gul a ?former Islamist? (I am curious to ask exactly
what a ?former? Islamist is).

Let us also briefly refresh our memories as to what kind of allies
the Turks are, when they prohibited our military to use some bases
in Turkey during our invasion of Iraq.

To all this I ask, where is our moral outrage? We don�t
need Turkey; Turkey needs us. Our free speech rights supersede the
limitations of the Turkish dictators. To allow the Turks with their
sordid historical and human rights record to lobby and interfere with
our political institutions and dispute our decisions and beliefs and
threaten us when we disagree is unconscionable.

How dare the Turks impose upon us their undemocratic censorship on our
free speech and our right to call a spade a spade ? and the Armenian
Genocide a genocide?

And what are we to think of our elected representatives and
administrations on the matter?

Shame on all of us.

WAITING FOR CLEAR ANSWERS
Armen Tsatouryan

Hayots Ashkharh Daily
Nov 14 2007
Armenia

Along with the electoral campaign, there emerges the imperative of
clarifying the attitudes of all the RA Presidential candidates with
regard to the policy of supporting the international recognition of
the Armenian Genocide, an issue included in the agenda of Armenia’s
foreign policy since 1998.

Let’s remind you that during the years when L. Ter-Petrosyan was
in power, Armenia had no such issue included in its foreign policy
agenda. Moreover, due to the efforts of Zhirayr Liparityan, Chief
Advisor of the President, Armenia was doing its best for starting a
unilateral flirtation with Turkey, thus overlooking the key issue of
the international recognition of the Armenian Genocide. We all know
how all this ended.

It is also well-known that by raising this issue actively on the
international arena since 1998, the present-day authorities have had
significant achievements in terms of the international recognition
of the Armenian Genocide,.

Now that our country is becoming faced with the imperative of having
a new President, both Armenia and the Diaspora are following the
candidates’ speeches and political statements with great interest,
trying to clarify each candidates’ attitude towards the international
recognition of the Armenian Genocide.

However, L. Ter-Petrosyan’s October 26 speech-lecture delivered on
the Theatrical Square did not contain a single sentence regarding
this key issue.

Nominated as an RA Presidential candidate on November 11, during
the 11th RPA Congress, Prime Minister Serge Sargsyan touched upon the
issue of regulating the Armenian-Turkish relations and emphasized that,
"the experience and success gained during the past years allow us to
insist that Armenia will not succumb to the Turkish and Azerbaijani
blackmail and will continue to stick to its approach of establishing
interstate relations without any preconditions…"

It is obvious that by saying "success" the Prime Minister also means
the extension of the process of the international recognition of the
Armenian Genocide, as this has allowed our country to counterbalance
to Turkey’s policy of imposing unilateral conditions and bring our
neighbors striving for EU membership face to face with the necessity
of recognizing their past.

Thus, it is obvious that although the two presidential candidates have
not detailed their attitudes, Serge Sargsyan’s most recent speech gives
grounds to conclude that making a positive assessment on the recent
years’ achievements in the field of recognizing the Armenian Genocide,
he will purse the policy adopted by President Kocharyan since 1998.

In such conditions, it also becomes necessary to find out
L. Ter-Petrosyan’s current political attitudes. Is it possible that
during the past decade, a period which became outstanding in terms of
the achievements in the process of the international recognition of
the Armenian Genocide, the ex-President has changed his ideas about the
"civilized Turkey"? Or, he still continues to believe in the solution
proposed by Zhirayr Liparityan that it is possible to push Turkey to
dialogue through unilateral concessions.

We believe that during the decade following 1998, Turkey, a country
striving for EU membership, unmasked itself not only in front of
Armenia, but also – the international community. And it became
clear not only due to the efforts of the Armenian diplomats and the
Diaspora but also due to the large number of reports and documents
of the European structures, regarding Turkey’s non-compliance.

And after all this, when the Turkish press has already has managed to
welcome L. Ter-Petrosyan’s return through the enthusiastic publications
and analyses printed in "Huriet" and "Miliet", the country’s most
influential newspapers, the right to voice, as they say, belongs to
L. Ter-Petrosyan himself. And our public expects them to give answers
to at least three questions: First: does the ex-President admit
that the extremely unrealistic assessments on Turkey’s tyrannical
regime, which he and his team made at the dawn of independence,
were thoroughly wrong?

Second: does he agree to the viewpoint that the present-day
authorities’ significant achievements in the sphere of the
recognition of the Armenian Genocide have created quite a new and
favorable attitude towards the Armenian people and contributed to
the strengthening of Armenia’s security.

Third: Considering that the Turkish diplomats have become more than
enthusiastic after his return to politics, is the ex-President ready
to draw relevant conclusions which may serve for him as grounds
for launching a counter-attack on them, by confessing that the
present-day authorities have adopted the right policy for achieving
the international recognition of the Armenian Genocide, We believe
that the tactics of overlooking or passing over these issues in
silence is not beneficial first of all to L. Ter-Petrosyan himself.

RUSSIA’S ‘SPOILT BRATSKIS’
By Jeanmarie Tan

Electric New Paper, Singapore
Nov 13 2007

AMERICA has Paris Hilton and Ivanka Trump.

Britain has Tamara Ecclestone (daughter of Formula 1 mogul Bernie
Ecclestone) and Holly Branson (offspring of Virgin tycoon Richard
Branson).

And of course, Greece boasts one of the world’s richest women,
billionaire Athina Onassis, the granddaughter of the late shipping
tycoon Aristotle Onassis.

Now, the Russians are the latest to join this elite group of hot
young heiresses.

British newspaper The Daily Mail even coined a term for this new
phenomenon that’s gripping the former Soviet Union – Spoilt Bratski
Revolution.

Like their international counterparts, it’s not enough for the
daughters of Russia’s mighty oligarchs to simply sit pretty in the
lap of lifetime luxury and fritter away their family fortune.

Besides conquering the society scene, these modern princesses have
also made their names in fashion design, pop music and television.

With more than a little help from daddy dearest, of course.

RESENTED BY SOME

These party-girl celebutantes are constantly tailed by the paparazzi
and the flaunting of their wealth and success, splashed across tabloid
pages, has given rise to some resentment.

The girls – the first generation to have come of age after communism –
are even compared to the spoilt daughters of the tsarist nobility who
helped breed the envy which sparked the Bolshevik revolution in 1917.

One of the members of the Spoilt Bratski Revolution is waifish Kira
Plastinina.

At 15, she’s been touted as the world’s youngest fashion designer
and is fast becoming one of Russia’s hottest.

She has 28 shops selling clothes for teenage girls and is also the
official costumier for the reality television show Star Factory,
Russia’s version of Fame Academy.

The funds to set up her own company came from her father
SergeiPlastinin, president and a major shareholder of food giant
Wimm-Bill-Dann, and worth an estimated £350 million ($1.1billion).

Plastinin also recently splashed out to make his daughter’s dream of
meeting US socialite Paris Hilton come true.

He paid a reported £1 million to fly Hilton to Russia to endorse
Kira’s new collection at Moscow Fashion Week two weeks ago, reported
Russian newspaper Pravda.

Hilton did her job of drumming up publicity for the teenager by taking
a front-row seat at the show and then sashaying down the catwalk with
Kira beside her.

The American heiress also splurged US$10,000 ($14,440) on clothing
and accessories during a highly-publicised visit to Kira’s flagship
boutique in central Moscow.

News channel Russia Today reported Hilton as saying: ‘I am wearing
her linen right now. She is an amazing designer at such a young age
especially. I really admire her.

‘I love her clothes. I want to wear these clothes in LA and I’m going
to give some to my sister.’

Bob Von Ronkel, president of the Doors To Hollywood company, told
Gossip Girls e-zine: ‘Kira is a talented young designer, her father
is a phenomenal marketing person.

‘Sergei Plastinin understands marketing like no one I’ve ever seen…’

Kira admitted that her father’s wealth and connections had made her
fashion career possible, but stressed that she wasn’t just a rich
girl looking for attention.

She told St Petersburg Times: ‘It’s not like I just went to my dad
and said, ‘I want a store,’ and he gave me a store with my name on
it and I don’t do anything.

‘I’m always coming to work, and my thoughts are constantly absorbed
in work. I always think about work, day and night. Sometimes I even
draw designs in school.’

Another Bratski whose father had a hand in bolstering her showbiz
stardom is 24-year-old Alsou Safina, an award-winning pop star who
is known as the ‘Russian Britney’.

Her politician father is Ralif Safin, founder of Russian oil giant
Lukoil. His fortune is estimated at £350million.

The sexy singer debuted in 1999 and has since released six albums in
both Russian and English.

EUROVISION RUNNER-UP

She entered the Eurovision singing competition in 2000 and finished
in second place, and even recorded duets with Latin singer Enrique
Iglesias and US rapper Nelly.

She also starred in the 2005 British horror movie Spirit Trap, which
bombed at the box office.

The Daily Mail quoted Alsou as saying: ‘Any parent would help his
child. I know that envious people keep calling me ‘a singing petrol
station’.’

She also once declared that ‘money is not a bad thing and finding a
way of spending it is not aproblem’.

Last year, Alsou married Armenian-Jewish oil scion Yan Abramov in what
was termed ‘the biggest wedding Moscow has seen yet’. It was attended
by the cream of the city’s celebrities, politicians, socialites and
even the mafia.

As a wedding present, Safin gave the couple a million-dollar Moscow
penthouse and a huge dacha (country house or villa).

Six months later, Alsou gave birth to a baby girl.

But probably the best known of the Bratski pack is TV star Kseniya
Sobchak, 26.

Her father is the late academic Anatoly Sobchak, former mayor of St
Petersburg and mentor to President Vladimir Putin as well as one of the
earliest advocates of freemarket reforms as the Soviet Union crumbled.

The limelight-loving ‘It’ girl became a household name by hosting
the hit Russian reality TV series Home-2, where she plays cupid to
the contestants.

Kseniya is Moscow’s answer to Paris Hilton, and no party, club
gathering or luxury boutique opening in the capital is complete
without her.

She is also the darling of Russian tabloids and considered the most
eligible bachelorette in Moscow.

Her blonde good looks and twisty love life land her on the covers of
magazines often.

But Kseniya is sensitive to the charge that her success is the result
of the Russian elite looking after its own.

She told The Guardian: ‘My job did not come without difficulty and
everything I have done, I did myself.

‘I am proud of my father and I wanted him to know that I was not only
his daughter, but someone myself.’

Kseniya, who has dated a string of millionaires, makes no apology
for her privileged lifestyle of conspicuous excess.

She told The Daily Mail: ‘I’ve got a kind of level below which I
would never go, therefore my circle of friends consists only of
wealthy people.’

She also has little time for jealous critics, adding: ‘It’s
understandable, especially in Russia where there are a lot of poor
people.’

She told the New York Times that she lives in ‘little oases of normal
Western lifestyle’, a remark that highlights the vast gap between
the newly-rich and the poor in Russia.

‘You go out on the street and it’s dirty. There are people and their
envy. It’s a lot of negative energy.’

Not surprisingly, in a country where one in four people still lives
below the poverty line, Kseniya’s words have caused deep resentment
and raised the ire of ordinary Russians.

Robert Service, professor of Russian History at Oxford University,
told the Daily Mail: ‘They are amazingly extravagant with an incredible
energy and zest, a bit like the very, very rich in 1920s America.

‘But they are both phenomenally popular and unpopular at the same
time.’

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‘I MAY NEVER SEE MY FRIEND AGAIN’
by Ben Wright

South Wales Evening Post, UK
November 6, 2007 Tuesday

A Stunned city schoolboy feels "absolutely gutted" because he may
never get to see his best friend again.

Murat Memedov, aged 11, and his family face deportation to Azerbaijan
after immigration chiefs threw out their asylum appeal.

The news of the well-liked family’s removal has shocked St Thomas
locals and left Cefn Hengoed pupil Jonathan Majors deeply upset.

His gran Pat Woods, aged 68, said: "We were totally stunned when we
read the Evening Post and heard about them being deported.

"Jonathan’s completely devastated and no-one who knew the family can
believe it."

Murat, his mum Veneera Aliyeva and sister Anna, aged 13, were seized
by immigration officers in a dawn raid more than a week ago.

They unlocked the door to the family’s Ysgol Street house and told
them they would be sent thousands of miles from their adopted home.

The move has upset locals who are now begging Home Office bosses to
change their mind.

Mrs Woods, of Grafog Street, said: "Murat is a lovely little boy –
he’s always polite and friendly.

"Jonathan is absolutely gutted when he found out.

"Murat and his family should be allowed to stay – he has been to hell
and back."

The Memedov family fled Azerbaijan in 2003 after suffering more than
a decade of brutality.

Keith Ross, of Asylum Justice, said they were persecuted because of
their Christian beliefs and their Armenian background.

"It is one of the most distressing cases I have ever witnessed," added
Mr Ross. "Veneera was arrested in 2002 and accused of abusing Islam.

"She was hit and then raped twice.

"Her husband was also arrested in 2005 and the family have not seen
or heard from him since – they do not know if he is dead or alive.

Azerbaijan is safe for neither Armenians or Christians."

Campaigners have managed to delay the family’s deportation, which
was due to take place on November 1, and are hoping to take their
case to the High Court to get the decision overturned.

"It is a positive step," added Mr Ross. "However, there is still a
lot of work to do and they are by no means out of the woods yet."

In the meantime, locals in St Thomas are sending Murat and his mum
and sister messages of support.

Mrs Woods added: "Jonathan spoke with Murat the other night and he
was choked.

"He is worried for his friend and is upset he may not get to see
him again.

"I used to think asylum seekers were just over here to take our jobs
and houses, but the Memedovs should be allowed to stay.

"If their son is anything to go by, they are a marvellous family."

RA FOOTBALL HIGHER LEAGUE 16th CHAMPIONSHIP FINISHES

Noyan Tapan
Nov 12 2007

YEREVAN, NOVEMBER 12, NOYAN TAPAN. The games of the last, 28th tour
of Armenian Fotball Higher League Championship took place on November
10. The following results were registered: Shirak – Pyunik 2 to 0,
Kilikia – Banants 0 to 6, Mika – Gandzasar 1 to 0, Ulis – Ararat 2
to 2.

Pyunik gained the title of Armenian champion for the 7th time
uninterruptedly with 57 points. Banants (52 points) and Mika (50
points) took the next two prize places. The teams were arranged in
the following succession on the tournament table’s next places: Ararat
49, Gandzasar 39, Shirak 34, Ulis 30, Kilikia 5 points. According to
contest rules, Kilikia is to leave the higher league.

Brazilian forward Marcos from Ararat team was recognized the
championship’s best bombardier. He scored 22 goals. The number
of goals scored by Arsen Balabekian (Banants) is less by seven as
compared with him.

REPAIRS OF MAIN BUILDING OF ARMENIAN NATIONAL LIBRARY CARRIED OUT WITH
ASSISTANCE OF VIVACELL

YEREVAN, NOVEMBER 10, NOYAN TAPAN. The repairs of the main building of
the Armenian National Library with a social investment of VivaCell
company have been completed. The roof of the main building and all the
16 lavatories of the library have been completely repaired thanks to
VivaCell’s assistance. NT was informed by the company’s press service
that VivaCell has also allocated money for celebration of the 175th
anniversary of the library.

The director general of VivaCell Ralph Yirikian, who was awarded a
Hakob Meghapart medal, visited the Armenian National Library on
November 9.

"Every Armenian should be proud of having such a cultural center. No
doubt, the family and society have a serious impact on the formation of
our personality and system of values. Nevertheless, it is literature
that gives us the experience and knowledge of the previous generations
and shows the beauty of our inner world and of the world surroundng us,
inspiring us to better deeds," R. Yirikian stated.

In addition to 12.462 million drams, he allocated another 10 million
drams on the occasion of the 175th anniversary of the library – for
future repair work. Thus VivaCell has provided a sum of 22.462 million
drams to the library.

SAAKASHVILI CALLED AN EARLY PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION FOR JANUARY 5, 2008

PanARMENIAN.Net
09.11.2007 14:40 GMT+04:00

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ Georgia’s President Mikhael Saakashvili on Thursday
called an early presidential election for January in an attempt to
defuse Georgia’s bitter political crisis and strengthen his hold
on power.

The vote had been due to take place in late 2008, but Saakashvili said
the vote would be held on Jan. 5 "to gain the trust of the people."

Saakashvili’s decision came a day after riot police violently dispersed
opposition protesters who had rallied in the capital for a week to
demand his ouster. The pro-Western president then imposed a state
of emergency and banned all news broadcasts except state-controlled
television.

"My compromise is that the opposition is given a chance to get elected
by the people, if they have the support," Saakashvili said calling
on international organizations to send ‘as many observers as they can’.

He proposed holding a referendum simultaneously with the presidential
vote on when to hold parliamentary elections. The parliamentary
elections had been due to take place in late 2008, but the opposition
wants an early vote next spring, AP reports.

Wednesday evening Georgian President Mikhael Saakashvili signed a
decree on establishment of state of emergency in Tbilisi.

The measure has followed an attempt of coup d’etat, State Minister
Zurab Noghaideli said.

"The edict imposes limitations on conduction of demonstrations and
calls for violence, shift in power and organization of disorders,"
he said.

Mr Noghaideli said the state of emergency will cover Tbilisi only. At
that "freedom of speech is not restricted" while "usual media work"
will be resumed after the order in the republic is established.

However, national emergency spear all over Georgia on Wednesday night.

REPAYMENT OF DEBTS OF THE MILL COMPANY STARTS MONDAY

KarabakhOpen
09-11-2007 18:08:28

During the meeting of government on November 6 Prime Minister Ara
Harutiunyan had stated that the government can launch the repayment
of the debts of the Mill to grain producers. Repayment starts Monday,
November 12.

The government decided that the most convenient form of compensation
would be transferring the sum to the bank accounts that the creditors
will open in the local banks and hand in the requisites to the
government by telephone, the Azat Artsakh reports.

At the same time, it was announced that the citizens who have
unsettled problems with the Mill but have not turned to the ministry
of agriculture and the office of prosecutor yet, can turn to the
abovementioned agencies.

The commission set up for this purpose continues to work.

TURKS’ EFFECTIVE WEAPON (GENOCIDE) WILL BE UPON IRAQI KURDS
American Chronicle – Rauf Naqishbendi

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9 Nov 07

Turkey’s application to join the European Union has met with a lukewarm
response. The relationship between Washington and Ankara has been
going downhill since the commencement of the Iraq War. The United
States Senate has passed two resolutions affecting this issue: one
acknowledging the Turks’ genocide against Armenians, and the other,
passed by an overwhelming majority with a vote of 75-23, calls for
the partitioning of Iraq into three autonomous regions. The aggregate
effect of all these events has been the spiteful reaction of Turkish
leaders as they attempt to vindicate themselves by making Kurds their
scapegoat. According to them, Kurds are to blame for everything,
because if it weren’t for the Kurds none of this evil would have
befallen them. In this manner, they energized their mighty army to
wreak their Turkish wrath (genocide) upon Iraqi Kurds.

Let us examine the Turkish animosity toward Kurds. First and foremost,
the Kurds have not been in a position of power since the inception of
Islam, more than a thousand years ago. During this time Kurds have
been at the mercy of their occupiers, of which Turks happen to be
one. This implies that Kurds did not tear apart Turkish communities,
they did not forcefully foist themselves on Turkish lands against
their will, and they did not deprive Turks of their human and national
rights. On the contrary, Turks imposed their draconian occupation on
Kurdistan, they demonized, disenfranchised and marginalized Kurds
and treated them as less than slaves. Kurds then sought decent and
humane treatment from the Turks. Asking for humane treatment seems
reasonable to civilized people, but not to Turks.

Turkey has embroiled itself in a doleful war against the Kurdish
Workers Party (the PKK) for the past two decades, and there is no
end in sight.

While the PKK is fighting to enfranchise Kurds and free them from the
fetters and shackles of human abuse, Turkey has embarked on a campaign
to mute the Kurdish pleas for justice and equality and extirpate
the PKK. The bloodshed took more than 30,000 lives, the majority of
which were innocent Kurdish civilians. Turks wiped out more than 2,000
Kurdish villages and towns, forcing millions of Kurds to leave their
homes and relocate in other parts of the country. During this time,
Turkey has spent tens of billions of dollars which it didn’t have and
had to borrow and finance at the cost of more destruction and human
tragedy. The country was now polarized with Turks against Kurds. Given
this background, it is amazing that Turkish authorities still have not
pursued diplomacy, and instead continue to wield their iron fist and
angry violence as the only remedy. The Turkish repulsion of dialogue
with the PKK is a conspicuous reaffirmation of the Turkish government’s
desire to continue the status quo suppression of the Kurds.

To clear the way for their atrocities against Kurds, Turkey is
determined to block any inroads Kurds would make toward their freedom
and statehood anywhere in the region. Since the Iraqi liberation,
thanks to America, the Kurds in Iraq have been breathing freely,
cherishing their opportunities and making their region shine as the
bright spot of the American Iraqi liberation. Turkish authorities
have been adamant about their hatred for Kurds and they have taken
advantage of every chance they got to derail their achievements. The
Turkish mindset is that anything good for Kurds is bad for Turks,
while Kurds perceive it entirely differently.

In the Middle East, where vendettas are commonplace, and the revengeful
"eye for an eye" mentality reigns, Kurds are practicing harmony and
friendship even with their foes. Since the Iraqi liberation Kurds, as a
gesture of good will, have granted many contracts to Turkish companies
and entrepreneurs, and have engaged in every proper neighborly
action to attempt to establish a good relationship with Turkey. It is
telling to see how Kurds responded to Turkish intolerance with good
deeds and forgiveness. This is a clear indication that a sovereign
Kurdish state in north Iraq would by no means be harmful to Turkey,
but on the contrary would be beneficial to Turkey given the Kurds’
peaceful sentiments. Turks should not scorn the idea of a sovereign
Kurdish state; it is inevitable and they better get used to it.

So often people get caught up in nostalgia for their past in such a
way that it taints their vision and judgment in the present. Turks
must realize that the way of arbitration of the Ottoman Empire is
a century old, and in the modern world the prevailing remedy for
contention and clashes between nations is sound diplomacy not violence
and bloodshed. Should Turkey continue in a path of hatred and violence,
it will have much to lose, whereas genuine diplomacy would return an
immense dividend of peace and prosperity. Resources they have devoted
to destruction and bloodshed could be diverted toward reconstruction
and social welfare. The division of Turkey into classes, where Turks
are superior and everyone else inferior hinders social and economic
advancement. Justice for all will invigorate the society to work for
the good of the nation as a whole, and consequently enhance Turkey’s
economic and political stand in the world. The enemy of Turkey isn’t
Kurds but rather the members of the chauvinistic Turkish right wing
who have never accepted the collapse of the Ottoman Empire and still
aim at world domination.

Since the 1980s, the Turkish military has violently intruded into
Iraqi Kurdistan several times and left thousands of their solders and
heavy war machinery in Kurdistan to fight the PKK, yet the PKK have
not by any stretch of imagination given up their struggle or ceased
to exist. Since this is what happened in the past, Turks must realize
that another bloody tour into Kurdistan will fail as miserably as
their previous tours. Thus, they now insist that American troops fight
their battle for them, as if America is a Turkish colony. Thankfully,
Washington has refused their demands. If the Turkish government were
to hearken to the voice of reason, it would have peacefully resolved
this problem long ago. That being said, time is neutral and it is
never too late to do what is right.

Turks have suffered the consequences of their own present and past
crimes.

Due to their lack of courage to face reality, they found in Iraqi
Kurds a scapegoat to take the edge off their misery. Iraqi Kurds
must beware for Turks have at their disposal a lethal and fatal
weapon. They used it effectively against Kurds in their own country
as well as Armenians, Assyrians and others of the Christian faith –
this weapon is called GENOCIDE.