Turkish Atrocities and Injustices Toward Kurds
Rauf Naqishbendi
July 27, 2007
One of the greatest triumphs of our time is the rapid and diverse communication through internet media. With the click of a mouse one can surf through world news anywhere and at anytime. This phenomenon has made it difficult for despotic regimes and vicious groups to continue their atrocities against humanity as used to be the norm in the silent world of the old days. No secret society can remain clandestine, no groups can hide behind walls of secrecy, rather all are revealed and their aims disclosed as humanity fights back for its survival.
News and commentaries related to events of the day don’t necessarily have to originate from where a given event occurred, but rather can be reported from anywhere, and can reach a wide audience mere seconds after posting. Consider Hevallo, a London-based website administered by Mark Campbell thousands of miles away from Kurdistan and yet actively engaged in making the public aware of the Turkish authorities’ backslide into abysmal policies and their inhuman treatment of Kurds.
Hevallo describes the Turkish authorities’ behavior and their intolerance for Kurdish freedom, explaining how this intolerance is woven into the Turkish constitution and how high-ranking Turkish generals in Turkey’s military apparatus are engaged in a policy of bigotry against the Kurds. It elaborates on the campaign of incarceration and torture of Kurds for their peaceful fight for justice and freedom. Hevallo crosses swords with Turks for their accusations that the PKK is a terrorist organization. To this end, it offers a blog (http://hevallo.blogspot.com) feature to its audience to exchange ideas and express their views regarding the undesirable situation in Turkey. Hevallo is a remarkable website serving the Kurdish cause through news and commentaries on current Kurdish affairs. This is a benevolent endeavor for an English fellow to take on behalf of the Kurds; this is definitely the kind of friend Kurds need.
Truly Hevallo is a viable tool and it deserves the gratitude of Kurds and humanity in general. It has embarked upon a great service to the most oppressed nation in the world, the downtrodden subject of oppression at the hands of the most onerous regime in the world. The homeland of more than thirty million people, Kurdistan has been divided like a pie between the world’s most notoriously evil regimes of Turkey, Iraq, Syria and Iran, and the Kurds are left without a country to call their own.
We live in a world plagued by menacing groups, authoritarian regimes and fanatic organizations. Aggressively fighting these obstacles is everyone’s responsibility, and inaction is a tacit endorsement of them. Injustice is humanity’s fatal enemy and must be fought everywhere and by everyone. In 1963, Dr. Martin Luther King, in his letter from a prison cell, wrote, “Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.” This is what Hevallo is about, sending loaded verbal bombshells from London targeting Ankara and Istanbul with demands for comprehensive freedom and justice for all citizens of Turkey, not Turks alone.
News and commentaries related to events of the day don’t necessarily have to originate from where a given event occurred, but rather can be reported from anywhere, and can reach a wide audience mere seconds after posting. Consider Hevallo, a London-based website administered by Mark Campbell thousands of miles away from Kurdistan and yet actively engaged in making the public aware of the Turkish authorities’ backslide into abysmal policies and their inhuman treatment of Kurds.
Hevallo describes the Turkish authorities’ behavior and their intolerance for Kurdish freedom, explaining how this intolerance is woven into the Turkish constitution and how high-ranking Turkish generals in Turkey’s military apparatus are engaged in a policy of bigotry against the Kurds. It elaborates on the campaign of incarceration and torture of Kurds for their peaceful fight for justice and freedom. Hevallo crosses swords with Turks for their accusations that the PKK is a terrorist organization. To this end, it offers a blog (http://hevallo.blogspot.com) feature to its audience to exchange ideas and express their views regarding the undesirable situation in Turkey. Hevallo is a remarkable website serving the Kurdish cause through news and commentaries on current Kurdish affairs. This is a benevolent endeavor for an English fellow to take on behalf of the Kurds; this is definitely the kind of friend Kurds need.
Truly Hevallo is a viable tool and it deserves the gratitude of Kurds and humanity in general. It has embarked upon a great service to the most oppressed nation in the world, the downtrodden subject of oppression at the hands of the most onerous regime in the world. The homeland of more than thirty million people, Kurdistan has been divided like a pie between the world’s most notoriously evil regimes of Turkey, Iraq, Syria and Iran, and the Kurds are left without a country to call their own.
We live in a world plagued by menacing groups, authoritarian regimes and fanatic organizations. Aggressively fighting these obstacles is everyone’s responsibility, and inaction is a tacit endorsement of them. Injustice is humanity’s fatal enemy and must be fought everywhere and by everyone. In 1963, Dr. Martin Luther King, in his letter from a prison cell, wrote, “Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.” This is what Hevallo is about, sending loaded verbal bombshells from London targeting Ankara and Istanbul with demands for comprehensive freedom and justice for all citizens of Turkey, not Turks alone.
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