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One of the greatest man of letters, Kirgiz Turk novelist Cengiz Aytamov was born on 12 December 1928 in Şeker village in Talas region of Kirzis Country. His father, Törekul Aytmatov, was one of the important intellectuals of Soviet revolution years. It is told that he had an important role in seperation of Turkistan as Uzbekhistan and Kirgizistan Soviet Republics. His mother, Nagim Gamzeyova. is a Tatar Turk. Being the first child of Aytmatov family, Cengiz showed his talent first with his translation of Russian officials to Kirgiz language when he was five years old.
In his childhood, he experienced the world war II which met him real life in his early years. All adults were taken to Soviet army and Aytamov worked as Municipality Secretary when he was twelve years old. Because no-one could speak in Russian in the village, he write and read the letters between the soldiers at war and their wifes and mothers. Besides, he collected and classified the clothes and foods to be sent to military troops.

His family had to move from town to town because of his father's work. These moves and the extraordinary conditions of war formed his personality. Playing an important role in seperation of Turkistan into two parts as Uzbekhistan and Kirgizistan, Törekul Aymatov was arrested and killed in 1937 by the agents of Stalın who applied the so-known policy of "devide and rule". After the collapse of Soviet Union, Cengiz Aytamov's father's corpse was detected by DNA test when a massacre burial was found in the south of Bishkek city. There he built a Ata Beyit "Father's Grave".

During the world war II, he worked as a municipality secretary and had to go to the county centre very often. Because of this, he could not receive an ordinary education. His childhood passed with terrible memories such as death letters of the soldiers from the fronts, which he still called "black paper". In those days, almost no children could have an ordinary life as it should be. On the other hand, adults (namely elder people and women) worked at farmers called kholhoz. Being a famous writer later, Aymatov told those years in his works, such as "Son of Soldier", "Face to Face", "Cemile", "Gülsari", "There Comes a Day Worth of a Century" etc.

After the war finishes in 1945, Aymatov went on his education and graduated from Kirgizistan Agriculture Institute in 1950. But his great ambition towards literature lead him to State Literature Institute where he wrote his work, "Cemile", a starting point of his luminous works. Famous French writer Louis Aragon prays this work as the "most beautiful love story" ever written. Cengiz Aytamov wrote his works in Russian and Kirzig language. He is one of the extraordinary talents who used a perfect style in his works which ha dealt with natural destruction against modernism, Kirkiz Turks' lives, alienation, Russian policies etc.

His works were taken in movies and he worked as the President of Kirgiz Sinematography Institute for years. These also helped much in improving Kirgiz Turk cinema and its reputation all over the world. He was the theme of many researches and many conferences were organized forhim. He was granted many titles such as Heroe of Solicalist Work, Kirgiz National Heroe, Kirgizistan Lenin Konsomol Sign, Popla Neruda and USSR State Medal. He still serves his country with success as a Luxembourg Consulate of Kirgizistan.

Take a look around you from where you sit. You will notice that everything in the room is ‘made’: the walls, the upholstery, the ceiling, the chair where you sit, the book you hold in your hand, the glass on the table and countless other details. None of them happen to exist in your room of their own accord. Even the simple loops of the carpet were made by someone: they did not appear spontaneously or by chance.

A person who is about to read a book knows that it has been written by an author for a specific reason. It would not even occur to him that this book might have come into being by chance. In the same manner, a person who sees a sculpture has no doubt whatsoever that it was made by a sculptor. And not just works of art: even a few bricks resting on top of one another make one think that they must have been brought to rest just so by someone within a certain plan. Therefore, everywhere where there is an order – either small or big – a founder and protector of this order must also exist. If, one day, somebody came forward and said that raw iron and coal came together to form steel by chance, which in turn constructed the Eiffel Tower again by chance, would not he and those who believed him be regarded as insane?

The claim of the theory of evolution, the unique method of denying the existence of Allah, is no different than this. According to the theory, lifeless atoms formed amino acids by chance, amino acids formed proteins by chance, and finally proteins formed living creatures again by chance. However, the probability of a living creature being formed by coincidence is less than the probability of the Eiffel Tower being formed in the same manner, because even the simplest human cell is more sophisticated than any man-made structure in the world.

How is it possible to think that the balance in the world came about by coincidence when the extraordinary harmony of nature is observable even with the naked eye? It is the most unreasonable claim to say that the universe, each point of which suggests the existence of its Creator, has come into being on its own.

Therefore, there should be an owner of the balance visible everywhere from our body to the farthest corners of the inconceivably vast universe. So, who is this Creator that ordained everything so subtly and created all?

He cannot be any material being present within the universe, because His must be a will that existed before the universe and created the universe thereupon. The Almighty Creator is One Whom everything finds existence, yet Whose existence is without any beginning or end.

Religion teaches us the identity of our Creator Whose existence we discover with our reason. Through what He has revealed to us as religion, we know that He is Allah, the Compassionate and the Merciful, Who created the heavens and the earth from nothing.

Although most people have the capability to grasp this fact, they spend their lives unaware of it. When they look at a landscape painting, they wonder who its painter is. Later, they praise the artist at length for his beautiful work of art. Despite the fact that they face numerous originals of that painting the moment they turn around, they still disregard the existence of Allah, Who is the only owner of all these beauties. In truth, not even a lengthy research is needed to understand the existence of Allah. Even if one had to live in a room from the time he was born, countless pieces of evidence in this room alone would be enough for him to grasp the existence of Allah.

The human body so overflows with evidence that it could not be contained in many multi-volumed encyclopaedias. Even giving a few minutes of conscientious thought to it all is enough to understand the existence of Allah. The present order is protected by Allah and maintained by Him.

The human body is not the only food for thought

10. Jiang Zemin is a Commander -in- Chief of crackdown in Eastern Turkestan In the 8th part of his secret report Secretary of the Communist Party Central Committee of so called 'Autonomous region" Wang Lequan discussed an urgent necessity to learn the speech of the General Secretary of the Communist Party of China and the President of China Jiang Zemin made by him in Eastern Turkestan on July 1998, and called to fulfil it. Repeatedly praising Jiang Zemin's instructions on the limitation to be imposed on the religious activities, he regretted that the puppet officials of different ranks do not fulfil Jiang Zemin's orders and instructions on Eastern Turkestan. Wang Lequan said: "We have to learn again and again important words on Xinjaing that the Chairman Jiang Zemin has said on July 1998. In his speech the Chairman gave detailed analysis of the religious, ethnic problems, the problems of the cadres, and the main dangers to the stability in Xinjang. So we have to learn his speech thoroughly to deepen our understanding. I can say, that some people at schools, plants, offices did not understand the meaning of Chairman's words on Xinjiang. Very often we speak about ethnic, religious policy, however frankly speaking we just speak about it, but do not know its progressive idea. In the speech of the Chairman Jiang Zemin, one can find very clear difference between the normal and abnormal, legal and illegal religious activities." Dear compatriots, in the previous part of this discussion, we told that the policy of hard suppression towards Uygurs in Eastern Turkestan was planned and led by the Central Government of China, this could also be seen from the report of Wang Lequan. Jiang Zemin could not stay calmly in Beijing and came to Eastern Turkestan to instruct the local officials on various matters: from the religious to ethnic issues. The fact that the regulation of the religious activities of Uygurs are based not on the Constitution of China, but on the instructions of Jiang Zemin, demonstrates how the human rights of Uygurs are being violated in Eastern Turkestan. Wang Lequan's regret of that "we just speak about religious and ethnic policy, but do not know its progressive idea" points that he is anxious that the religious and ethnic policy in Eastern Turkestan is not being implemented in accordance with Chinese Constitution and the Law on the ethnic territorial autonomy. It is obvious that some poliical campaigns carried out by the Communist Chinese Government in Eastern Turkestan violate the rights declared in the Constitution of China and the Law on ethnic territorial autonomy, and so called "autonomous region" does not have the rights that the ordinary Chinese province has! Here we should remind that the Chinese highest officials like Jiang Zemin visited Eastern Turkestan one after another giving instruction by instruction, order by order, decree by decree, especially last time spying the countries that border with Eastern Turkestan and sympathize with Uygurs. The ethnic movement for independence in Eastern Turkestan really turned into great headache for Communist China and the Central Government makes its best to suppress Uygurs inside the country and to isolate those Uygurs struggling abroad. For instance "The spring of Beijing" magazine published in the USA from 1999, issue # 4, has cited the official report made by the Academy of Social Sciences of China, which informed that the ethnic movement in Eastern Turkestan is one of the main 8 problems that could lead to collapse of China. The efforts undertaken by the Chinese delegation during the visits to other countries clearly confirm this conclusion. For example, the Speaker of Chinese Parliament Li Peng made an official visit to Turkey on the 2-6 th of April 1999. In accordance with the observations of the Turkish mass media as well as some Chinese democratic press the goal of this visit was to put an end to the activities of the eastern-turkistanian anti-Chinese organizations in Turkey by the diplomatic ways. This issue has been discussed specially at the negotiation of Li Peng with the Ministry of Foreign affairs of Turkey Bulent Ejiwit on April 4-5. Li Peng offered to render Turkey diplomatic, military and economic aid if Turkey meets Chinese demands to stop the activities of anti-Chinese movement. But China had to return without success. After that the vice-Chairman of the Committee of Military Affairs and the Defense Ministry of China Qi Haotian made another attempt to achieve the same goal during his visit to Turkey, but was in vain too. At the same time on August 25, 1999 China has signed the "Bishkek agreement" of the "Shanghai Fives" , including the Central Asian countries of Kazakhstan, Kyrqgyzstan, Tadjikistan. At that time the foreign press informed that the main task of this meeting in Bishkek was to confine the activities of anti-Chinese movements of the Eastern-Turkestanians in the Central Asian countries. For instance, the Turkish newspaper "Yengi Shefaq"on 27 August 1999 published an observation called "Eastern Turkestan is under blockade", part 2 of which says: " The problem of Eastern Turkestan is very important for China, because it is very anxious of the ideas of independence in Eastern Turkestan, the man population of which, the Uyhurs, ethnically and culturally are more close to Kazakhstan, Kyrghyzstan and Tadjikistan than to China. To suppress the movement for independence here the Chinese Government has killed and detained a lot of Uygurs. The Chinese government, which wishes to prevent Uygurs to get help from outside and to liquidate anti-Chinese forces in Eastern Turkestan, fears that its borders not controlled strictly could become a corridor for penetration of the anti-Chinese forces into Eastern Turkestan and delivery of the aid to Uygurs from abroad. This was the main goal of the "Bishkek agreement" signed by China with the above countries."

Dear compatriots, despite the attempts of the Chinese government to suppress the Uygur movements inside the country and to isolate their organizations abroad, no one of these attempts was successful, and the movement for the independence of Eastern Turkestan is strengthening and developing in the world day by day, year by year!

IRAQI TURKMEN

Geographical Features:
The majority of the Muslim Turkmens are concentrated in the northern Iraqi provinces of Mosul, Erbil, Kerkuk, Salahaddin and Diyala. There are also significant numbers of Turkmens in the central provinces of Baghdad, Wasit, Kerbala and Najaf.

Population:
The Turkmens are the third largest ethnic group in Iraq after the Kurds and Arabs. The number of the Turkmens is estimated at 3 million or %13 of the Iraqi population. They form a cultural buffer zone between Arabs in the south and Kurds in the north.
The Turkmen region has large natural resources such as Oil, gas and Sulphur. In addition, there is an abundant production of wheat and cotton.

Language:
Turkish language closer to Azerbaijani.

Organizations:
The Iraqi Turkmens are represented in the UNPO by Dr. Muzaffer Arslan the founder of the Iraqi National Turkmen Party (INTP). Turkmens have the following political organizations:
1- Iraqi Turkmen Front (ITF) which is an umbrella organizations of four parties: INTP, Turkmeneli Party (TP), Islamic Movement of Iraqi Turkmens (IMIT) and the Independents Movement.
2- Turkmen Nationalist Movement (TNM),
3- Turkmen Wafa Movement,
4- Islamic Union of Iraqi Turkmens(IUIT),
5- Turkmen Development and Liberation Party (TDLP).
Non political organizations are: Turkmeneli Cooperation and Cultural Foundation (TCCF) in Turkey, Turkmen Brotherhood Center (TBC) in Iraq and Iraqi Turks Culture and Solidarity Association in Turkey.
On October 7.th 1997, Turkmen organizations arranged a "Turkmen Assembly" in Erbil, northern Iraq. The assembly gathered most of the Turkmen organizations, and determined the cultural, educational, information and social policies for the Turkmen people. The groups who attended the assembly have adopted the "Declaration of Fundamental Principles. A 30 member council was created from various Turkmen organizations.
In order to maintain the identity of the Turkmens and to ensure social solidarity worldwide, several associations and foundations were established in Denmark, Sweden, Germany, the Netherlands, Turkey, Canada, the USA and Australia.

Turkmen Reality:
The Turkmens are a distinct society and the third largest nationality in Iraq.
They are distinct in language and culture from both their neighbors, the Arabs and Kurds. Yet, the Turkmens are continuously denied political rights and systematically faced assimilation.

Historical background:
The Turkmens, originally came from central Asia, where the Sumerians came from. They are descendants of the Turkic speaking Oghuz tribes who began settling in Iraq 1500 years ago and inhabited the northern and central regions of Iraq.
They had significant role in the administration of Iraq and established 6 states, The Seljuks, Atabegs,
Ilkhanids, Jalairids, Qara Qoyunlus and Aq Qoyunlus.

Brief Recent History:
October 30, 1918, at the end of First World War, the Mosul province was still within the borders of the Ottoman Empire. The British troops occupied the territory after the cease-fire on November 11, 1918. Turkey refused to accept this act and demanded the return of Mosul province.
The Turkmens and Kurds resisted British authority by participating in the popular 1920 Iraqi revolution and refused the British installed Hejazi Hashemite monarchy in 1921.
Turkmens were attacked on May 4, 1924 by the British army mercenaries (Levies) in Kerkuk, where hundreds of civilians were killed.
1925, Under the Constitution, the Kurds and the Turkmens had the right to use their own languages in schools, government offices and to have their own language press.
June 5, 1926, Turkey, under British pressure, accepted the integration of Mosul into Iraq.
1932, Entering the League of Nations, the Iraqi government declared that it will respect all minority rights. But in 1933 began closing Turkmen schools and sent activists into exile.
1940 Arab tribes were settled west of Kerkuk.
July 14th 1959, Communists and separatist militias massacred Turkmen leaders along with hundreds of Turkmens in Kerkuk in an attempt to ethnically cleanse the city.
Revised census of 1957, which did not include the Turkmens of Mosul region, showed the Turkmens as %9 of the Iraqi population,.
January 24th 1970, The Baathist government granted cultural rights to the Turkmens. But in 1972 prohibited the study in the Turkish language and restricted the Turkish media in Iraq to one weekly journal and one monthly magazine promoting Baath propaganda.
1973, In the Interim Constitution, no reference was made to the Turkmen population in Iraq.
January 16th 1980, Four Turkmen leaders were executed by the Baath regime and prohibited the public use of the Turkish language. In the eighties, Turkmen activists were arrested, tortured and executed. Hundreds of thousands of Arabs were brought from central and southern Iraq and settled by the Baath government in Kerkuk and other Turkmen towns.
1990, the new Constitution states that “Iraqi people consist of Arabs and Kurds” only.
1991, the creation of the Safe Haven by the UN after the Gulf War, Included Erbil. Thus, divided the Turkmens into two separate communities, a minority (%10) in the north and the rest under Iraqi administration.
The same year, Iraqi Turkmens became member of UNPO.
April 24th 1995, The Iraqi Turkmen Front (ITF) was formed in Erbil as an umbrella organization to include all Turkmen parties and movements such as INTP, Turkmeneli Party, Independents Movement and 2 non political organizations.
1996, Assault on the Safe Haven” by the Iraqi army, the headquarters of the INTP was attacked and destroyed. Tens of Turkmen leaders were executed.
2003 April 10th, U.S. forces entered Kerkuk and all Turkmen towns.

Assimilation Campaigns:
Turkmens suffered from various degrees of suppression and assimilation that ranged from political persecution and exile to terror, massacres and ethnic cleansing.
During the British and monarchy era, despite 1925 constitution and 1932 League of Nations declaration, cultural rights were gradually taken away, activists were sent to exile. Arab tribes were settled west of Kerkuk.
During the Communist era, Communist and separatist groups committed the Kerkuk Massacre of July 14.th, 1959 which aimed at terrorizing and ethnically cleansing the Turkmens from the city.
During the Baathist era, the Iraqi administration granted some cultural rights to the Turkmens on January 24.th, 1970, including education in the Turkish language in primary schools, daily radio broadcasting for two hours and TV broadcasting for half an hour in the Turkish language, these rights were gradually taken away by the authorities and by 1972, all Turkish schools were closed.
The assimilation of the Turkmens already became a state policy in 1971 when the General Assembly of the Baath Party decided to complete the Arabization of Kerkuk by 1980. Administrative boundaries were changed in 1974 to divide Turkmen concentrations. Since the mid 70s, Arabs enjoyed special incentives and rights encouraging them to move to historically Turkmen areas including the oil-rich city of Kerkuk. In the latter half of the 1970s, the names of several villages and places in the Governorate of Kerkuk were officially given Arabic names (Al-Tamim). Turkish was prohibited in public and even in telephone conversations. Hundreds of Turkmen villages and towns were demolished. Their inhabitants expelled or forcibly transferred to remote areas in southern Iraq.
In Iraq's judicial system, the Turkmen were ignored and the several Iraqi constitutions say that Iraq is made of Arabs and Kurds and “other” minorities without mentioning the Turkmens.
The Iraqi Turkmens suffered severely under the dictatorship of the Socialist Arab Baath Party, as they were not allowed to form political parties, open private schools, publish any books, magazines or newspapers which caused a cultural damage.
Against these pressures, the only Turkmen NGO, Turkmeneli Cooperation and Cultural Foundation (TCCF), managed to repair some of that damage by opening Turkmen schools and publishing Turkish newspapers and magazines in Erbil and few towns of Northern Iraq.

Opposition Activities in Exile and in Iraq:
ITF began to introduce the Turkmen issue to the world by opening representations in Berlin, London and Washington. Participated in all Iraqi opposition meetings in exile. However, few Iraqi organizations began to monopolize the leadership and blocked the ITF from taking its rightful place as the representative organization for the Turkmen people within the leadership group.
On March 19, 2003, U.S. decided to end the Baath regime, U.S. forces entered Kerkuk on April, 10, 2003 and Mosul the next day. All government and public offices and properties were looted by separatist militias.
U.S. administration established city councils in Kerkuk and other Turkmen towns, Turkmens were represented by one fifth of the total number.
In Baghdad a governing council was appointed by the Americans, Turkmens were given only one symbolic seat among 25.
Turkmens protested Governing Council appointments through many protest demonstrations in Baghdad, Kerkuk and Tuz. Some of those ended with bloody attacks by separatist militias.

Turkmen Demands:
1- Self Determination: They should be free to decide their destiny.
2- Self Administration: They should be able to administer themselves in their areas where they constitute a majority, so they can maintain, develop and practice their culture and language freely.
3- Participation in Iraqi administration according to their population ratio which should be established by an internationally observed census.
Methods of Implementation:
1- Disarming of the separatist groups and militias who restrict Turkmens freedom and impose the separatist agenda.
2- Internationally observed fair and just census to reveal the ethnic facts.
3- Internationally observed fair and just elections to establish the National Assembly which reveals the true representations of all groups.

Current situation:
The disarming of the separatist groups did not happen, on the contrary, they were legalized and included in the police force.
The long awaited census did not happen. International observation for the January 30, 2005 Iraqi elections was too weak or non existent. In the north the process was rigged by separatist groups. Fraud, manipulation, fake and duplicate voting, stealing of ballot boxes and prevention of voting in the Mosul region reduced Turkmen representation to an unacceptable low levels.
Turkmens believe that without European and international observation and participation, any census or elections will be biased and open to manipulation.
Turkmens still do not control their lands and affairs. Ethnic tensions remain high in the north.
Since April 2003, American authorities in Iraq have ignored Turkmen sensitivities and in some cases, acted against them, such as the heavy bombardment of Telafer in September 2004.
In general, the Turkmens did not see the fairness, justice and the democracy that Americans promised to bring.

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The historical geographical name of Turan refers to the area East of the Caspian sea. Archeological research has shown that this area saw the development of a highly evolved civilization of Sumerian (Mesopotamian) origin (S.P. Tolstov: Ancient Chorasmia). The Sumerians were the creators of the first known civilization, the inventors of agriculture, metallurgy, the wheel, writing, and astronomy, among others (S.N. Kramer: History begins at Sumer).

The 19th century researchers who discovered and studied the ancient Mesopotamian Sumerian language determined that it was related to the Turanian languages (M. Érdy: The Sumerian Ural-Altaic Magyar Relationship). Comparative linguistic analysis indicates that of all known ethno-linguistic groups, the Hungarian, Turkic, Caucasian and Finnic languages are by far the closest to Sumerian (K. Gosztony: Dictionnaire d'étymologie sumérienne et grammaire comparée). This is confirmed by archeological and anthropological evidence which shows that thousands of years ago, the Sumerians and other related Near Eastern peoples settled in the vast region of Central Eurasia from the Carpathian basin to the Altai mountains, from the Urals and Siberia to Iran and India (L. Götz: Keleten Kel a Nap (The Sun Rises in the East)).

The descendants of these Sumerian-related peoples were known as the Scythians, Sarmatians, Medes, Parthians, Chorasmians, Kushans, Huns, Avars, Bulgars, Khazars and Magyars, among others, and gave rise to the Finnic and Turkic-Mongolian ethnic groups. These Turanian peoples created flourishing cultures and states which exerted a determining influence on the peripheral Eurasian cultures of Europe, the Middle East, Persia, India, and China, as well as on the formation of the various Eurasian ethno-linguistic groups. See

Türkiye, hep aynı sıkıntı ile karşı karşıya. Kendi içindeki problemlere boğuluyor.
Durum bu olunca da çevresinde olup bitenlerle pek ilgilenemiyor.

Biz göremiyoruz...

Durumu uzaktan izleyen Araplar ise, bizden daha iyi görüyorlar. Arap gazetelerinde Kuzey Irak'la ilgili olarak verilen bilgiler ve yapılan değerlendirmeler son derece ilginç. "Büyük Kürdistan" hayalinin, nasıl adım adım uygulamaya konulmaya çalışıldığını çok güzel anlatıyorlar...

Şu tespitlere bakın:
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- Büyük Kürdistan arzusu, Irak tarihinde ABD ve İngiltere'nin desteği ile ilk defa uygulanması gereken bir belgeye dönüştü. Irak'ta federasyon ve hatta bölünme hakkı Irak Anayasası'nda tescil edildi.

- Kürtler, beklenen devletin kurulma planlarına zemin hazırlayan Dışişleri ve Planlama gibi bakanlıkları ele geçirdi. Planlama Bakanlığı Kürdistan'ın tam bağımsızlığı için geniş ufuklar hazırlıyor.

- Birçok uluslararası örgütün merkezi ve başkonsolosluklar, Bağdat değil, Erbil ve Süleymaniye gibi Kürt kentlerinde bulunuyor.

- Irak'ın Kürt Cumhurbaşkanı Celal Talabani'nin, Kuzey Irak'a her ziyaretinde Süleymaniye Havaalanı'nda "Kürdistan Milli Marşı" çalınıyor. Irak Bayrağı'nın yanında "Kürdistan Bayrağı" dalgalanıyor.

- Barzani bölgesinde ise, kamusal alan ve devlet dairelerinde Irak Bayrağı'nın asılması yasaklanmış durumda. Arapça kullanılmıyor, bakanlık ve kuruluşların isimleri Kürtçe yazılıyor. Resmi yazışmalarda da Kürtçe kullanılıyor.

- Yaşlılar, Arapça olan isimlerini Kürtçe ile değiştiriyor.

- Irak'ın diğer bölgeleri her alanda kötüye giderken, Kuzey Irak gün be gün canlanıyor.

- Talabani ve Barzani, kronikleşen anlaşmazlıklarını unuttular. Irak Arap güçlerine karşı milli ve siyasi kazanımlar elde etmek için güçlerini birleştirdiler.

- Kuzey Irak bölgesi, Suriye, İran, Türkiye, Rusya, Ermenistan ve Lübnan'dan gelen faal Kürtlerin buluşma yeri haline geldi.

- Büyük Kürdistan'a giden yol olarak, önce "Irak Kürdistan Cumhuriyeti"nin ilanı için dünya kamuoyunu seferber etmeye yönelik bir kampanya başlatıldı.

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Şimdi gelelim "Büyük Kürdistan"ın ne olduğuna... Sınırlarını çoktan çizdiler. İran'ın Basra Körfezi'nden, batıda bizim İskenderun Körfezi'ne ulaşıyor. İran ve Suriye'nin bazı kentleri ile kuzeyde Türkiye'nin birçok ilini içine alıyor.

Kuzey Irak'taki Kürt bölgesi sadece 72.000 kilometrekare. Ama, istedikleri "Büyük Kürdistan" ın yüzölçümü 409.350 kilometreyi buluyor.

Türkiye'den talep edilen toprak ne kadar biliyor musunuz? Tamı tamına 194.400 kilometrekare. Hayal ettikleri "Büyük Kürdistan"ın en büyük parçası bizim topraklarımızın içinde. 124.950 kilometrekaresi İran'da, 18.000 kilometrekaresi de Suriye'de yer alıyor.

Bitmedi, dahası var...

"Büyük Kürdistan'ın nüfusu 20 milyondur" diyorlar. Yaptıkları hesaba bakılırsa, bunun 10 milyonu Türkiye'de. Irak'ta 4 milyon, İran'da 5 milyon ve Suriye'de 1 milyon Kürt yaşadığını iddia ediyorlar.

Bu amaçla binlerce kitap bastırılıyor...

Peş peşe seminerler ve konferanslar düzenleniyor.

Arap gazetelerinin görüştüğü Kürt ileri gelenleri de hep aynı görüş üzerinde birleşiyorlar:

- Düşlediğimiz Büyük Kürdistan artık her zamankinden daha yakın!

Durum aynen böyle. Hemen bitişiğimiz Kuzey Irak'ta başımıza ciddi çoraplar örülüyor. Kuzey Irak merkezli ve batı destekli bir kampanya her geçen gün daha da yoğunlaştırılarak sürdürülüyor.

Peki biz ne yapıyoruz?

İtiş-kakış ve birbirimizi yemekle meşgulüz. Onlar da verdiğimiz bu görüntüye bakıp, zevk içinde ellerini ovuşturuyorlar!