

The Kurds and Turkey

Massacre at Uludere

The political aftershocks of a killing of Kurds still reverberate

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Fahrettin Tahir in reply to mesobotamia

You people are discussing insignificant details. Kurds need investment.

Let us ask the question why Kurds do not invest anything in their own country.

The war of the PKK cost the PKK tens of billion dollars. They had this money.

One billion dolars buy acar factory. For 25 billions you get half a million good paying jobs.If the PKK had invested such money in construction instead of destruction, others would have followed and we would not be discussing kids dying in the mountains, trying to smuggle diesel fule on mules.

No wonder the PKK would rather discuss details of Turkish grammer which interest noone.

mesobotamia in reply to BenLondon


l can tell you for sure,if Ghandi was doing that peaceful resistance in turkey,again l assure you,he would be hanged in less than 24 hours.Kurds did try this kind of resistance for decades and maybe you dont know but we still remember the end of them.dont get me wrong but it looks like you should learn a bit more about middleast history and also relations between kurds and turks,then you would probably understand kurds and why do they have only 1 option.By the way,you are missing the most important point:Ghandi was dealing with brits.Now come on,when comes to human right how can you compare turkey with Britain???

Fahrettin Tahir in reply to Corduene

Why are the Kurds of Iran and Syria just as poor? Why Afghanistan, Yemen, Somali?

Why do you automatically blame the Ankara governmentment when Kurdish region gets no investment? Why do rich Kurds invest nothing? Why do the Europeans and Americans invest nothing in Diyarbakir?

Kurdish culture of expecting violence to solve all problems lead to the PKK and it also explains why no one will invest money there.

You implicity expect the Turkish taxpayer to invest money to make the Kurds rich. Why should the people from konya accept having their tax money invested in Chiolemerick, where the terrorists live who will glady murder the children of the taxpayers from Konya?

sgok in reply to Fahrettin Tahir

the same one with multiple pen names is hitting the button to the report section of the editors, so you should not suprise; if you pay attention to the one, you could understand the caracter of their genetical habit, as i imlied earlier in my one comment.


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