Putting The Record Straight

Submitted by Mozere (United Kingdom), Oct 2, 2013 at 03:26

Historically the Kurds have been anti West, anti christian and Islamist. The PKK (armed Kurdish insurgents) is a Marxist organisation which received training and arms from the USSR.

The Kurds were enthusiastic members of the Hamidiah troops which took part in anti Christian carnages of 1890s, they also massacred a lot of Armenians in the 1915 deportations. More recently, they harrassed the Assyrian christians of Mardin district as a result of which the local christians migrated to Istanbul and abroad to Scandinavia.

Most of the Kurds are tribal and deeply religious and traditionalist Sunnis.Saidi Nursi ,a Kurd from Bitlis,is a strongly anti secularist anti republican and by implication an anti Western figure who is revered by many of the Islamists of Turkey.

Kurdish problem in Turkey will be solved by the increasing democratisation of Turkey ( which really is happening albeit rather slowly) rather then interference by the foreign powers.

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