Konkurd: BOYCOTT TURKISH TOURISM, DO NOT FEED WAR WITH YOUR FOREIGN CURRRENCY
KON-KURD (The Kurdish Confederation of Kurdish Associations in Europe Not recognizing the basic rights of up to 20 million Kurds such as language and identity, Turkey has made an attempt to Kurds’ basic living right without taking into account whether they are women, child or old. The terror operations of Turkish State, which killed ten thousands of Kurd, forced 3 million people to emigrate, set on fire thousands of forest hectares and wasted thousands of animals, have particularly been increased recently. State security forces terrorized once again during the celebration of International Women Day and Newroz festival. The brutal images of Kurdish children and women beaten up severely, the child whose arms were broken in front of cameras and 5 killed Kurds during the attacks were watched all over the world.
The ‘asparagus news’ from Turkish Military Force (TSK)
Kurdish Info 26.02.2008
The Turkish army is continuing its psychological warfare with the help of media against the PKK.
Related to this psychological war everyday something new and interesting is showing up.
In 1937 there was a major steel strike in Pennsylvania at Johnstown. Laborers were getting organized and this was a serious threat to the corporations because any compromise to the demand of their employees would raise their fixed costs, which meant they would have to pay more than they used to do. “Business tried out to a new technique of labor destruction…The idea was to figure out ways to turn the public against the strikers, to present the strikers as disruptive, harmful to public and against the common interests.
How true is the portrayal of the PKK as the aggressor by the media organs of the Turkish state and their diplomatic work? Is the ceasefire you declared on 1 October 2006 still valid? We once more brought to the fore the basis for a solution to the Kurdish question through peaceful, democratic means with the ceasefire we declared on 1 October 2006.
18.10.2007 BEHDINAN (18.10.2007)- Koma Civaken Kurdistan (KCK) Executive Council Chairperson Murat Karayilan announced that the Turkish government's war plan amounts to war on Iraq. Karayilan believes that the Iraqi central government's attitude towards this is ‘characterless and unprincipled’.
Cross-border military operations have been sanctioned by the Turkish parliament. However Turkey is unsure how to proceed. What do you think the aim of the parliamentary permission is?