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Originally Posted by Arabesque
With due respect to all you guys, I don't see why a good Kurd is necessarily a Kurd who doesn't want an independent Kurdistan. If I were a Kurd, I'd want an independent Kurdistan, too. We're not living in the days of khilafa, and every other sub-nation today has an independent state in the region. Look at Gulf Arabs, for instance. We didn't need to have 7 countries (this includes the Arab part of Iraq). We could have easily been one large country. Our dialects are very similar, and the slight variations are trivial.
The Kurds, on the other hand, are a distinct race. They have their own culture, their own cuisine and - most importantly - their own language. If they want to be communists, by all means! It's their choice. If Turkey wants to be secular; it's Turkey's choice. Let's not impose our collective views on others. I'm sure there are Kurds who don't want to live under communist rule, but that is for them to figure out. For that, they'll need their own country and a multi-party political system.
Let's imagine a different scenario with Turks being the scattered community (race/language) living in Kurdistan and other countries in the region. Wouldn't the Turks want their own country? After all, they have their own history to teach. They have their own language to celebrate. Even if they were granted equal rights (which can never happen), they'd still feel left behind. Everybody else has a state. Why not them?
As an Arab, I could easily be nationalistic about this and object to the secession of Kurdistan from Iraq. But there's no need to be. Just because the PKK are active and violent, that doesn't mean they're going to be the future of Kurdistan. To say that we'd then have to deal with a violent neighbour is just a lame excuse.
I hope we all try to empathise with the Kurds. No matter what, living as a restricted minority is not really nice.
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From this I infer that you are not a religious Muslim who is against all nation states, who is working toward the Qur'anic injunction to unite all Muslims. Right?
However, I agree that if Turks have the right to have their own nation state, Kurds have that right too. But that is in idealistic situation. If kurds try to have their own state in this actual situation, they will have to start a very big war with the Turks who see that the greatest possible abomination that they can face is yet another division of their lands. It is downright evil to want Muslims to fight each other. That's why religious Kurds do not want an independent state. They do not want hositilites between the Turkish and Kurdish brothers.
Look at me. I am a native of what is today Bulgaria. Do my Bulgarian Turkish brothers demand an independent Turkish state from Bulgaria? No. In the 1980s the communist Bulgarian state forced the Turkish Muslims to change their names into Christian Bulgarian names and applied all sorts of oppression on the Turkish natives of the country. Turks were humiliated and marginalized in all spheres of Bulgarian life. Did they resort to terrorism to beat this humiliation? No, they did not. Did Turkey support Turkish separatists who want to separate from Bulgaria or join the mainland Turkey? No, our government did not. Why are the Kurds in North Iraq not following the same peaceful way? Let me tell you why: Because their problem is with a Muslim state and not with the Christian Bulgarian state like my countrymen, they are supported by western powers. Even the US has had to admit that American weapons are going to the terrorists in North Iraq. It has been proven that American and probably other western officers are regularly meeting with the terrorists in Mount Kandil. Supporting the Kurdish terrorists means supporting the western imperialistic ambitions over the lands of Islam. Even conscious religious Kurds themselves see this reality very clearly and are against the PKK and separation from Turkey. But those who have been educated by westerners or westernized, mentally bastardized teachers in their schools support the terrorists and their anti-Muslim western collaborators. Shame on them.
By the way, I am not a fan of the secular Turkish state either. Inshallah I will be working toward a cultural Islamic revolution in Turkey and in the entire world and we will found a new world. I see no way a true Muslim can have any other intention.