Turkmen Speaker in Al Jazeera
Turkmen opinion on the latest Election Law in Iraq will be explained by Orhan Kettaneh from Istanbul in Jasim Azzawi´s “Inside Iraq” program.
Representing the Arab view will be Dr. Munthir Al-Adhami from London.
The view of the Kurds will be presented by Feryad Rawanduzi from Beirut.
The programme will be broadcast several times, so many people get a chance to see it.
Here are all timings according to GMT:
Friday
17:30 GMT (19:30 in Turkey- 20:30 in Kerkuk)
22:30 GMT (24:30 in Turkey- 1.30 in Kerkuk)
Saturday
03:00 GMT (5:00 Turkey, 6:0 Kerkuk)
08:30 GMT (10:30 Turkey, 11:30 Kerkuk)
Sunday
06:00 GMT (8:00 Turkey, 9:00 Kerkuk)
12:30 GMT (14.30 Turkey, 15:30 Kerkuk)
Monday
01:30 GMT (3:30 Turkey, 4:30 Kerkuk)
About a week after first broadcast, the show can also be viewed online on Al- Jazeera website:www.aljazeera.net/english
(in the Programmes section)
It can be viewed also in Youtube under “Inside Iraq” title.
Friday, 13 November 2009
Thursday, 12 November 2009
Kurdish violence against Turkmens in Kerkuk
Below is the letter from Dr. Mohammed Omar Kazanchi of Turkmen Brotherhood Club addressed to Mr. Ban Ki Moon in July 2008.
To the kind attention of the secretary general of the United Nations: Mr. Ban Ki Moon
Subject: Condemnation and request of protection
What happened in the Kerkuk city on 28 July 2008 is not a solitary event. It is a part of systematic plan by the Kurdish politicians to benefit from the unstable situation in Iraq to suppress the Turkmen and absorb Kerkuk province. The Turkmen are a peaceful community believes in the unity of Iraq.
The Iraqi Turkmen are exposed to the aggressive assimilation policies and they suffered from different massacres in 1924, 1946 and 1959.
During the Ba’ath regime, the Turkmen were exposed to deportation and their lands confiscated, teaching in Turkmen language was prohibited and they were prevented to practice their culture. The Turkmen were asked to change their nationality to avoid discrimination. After occupation, the Turkmen of Iraq continued to be marginalized from administration and excluded from the political life. The Turkmen regions are terrorized the inhabitants were intimidated.
Today, the Kurdish militant parties which dominate the Iraqi administration practice all sorts of the policies to violate the simplest Human rights of the Iraqi Turkmen; the violation of the provincial laws by all the Kurdish authorities, which postpones the election in Kerkuk with power sharing, is the most recent abuse of the Turkmen rights.
At 28 July 2008, the Kurdish parties ordered the Kurdified administration, the staffs and shop owners from all the communities and the Kurdish peoples in Kerkuk to close their business buildings and leave their offices to participate in a protest against the Provincial Election Law. They also brought thousands of the Kurds from Erbil. The armed protestors worked to create chaotic circumstances.
When the protesters reached to the building of the Kerkuk governorate an explosion occurred leaving behind numbers of the injured and dead peoples. Thereafter, groups of the protestors started to attack the buildings of the Turkmen organizations. They set fire in the building of the Iraqi Turkmen front and injured the guards. Other groups attacked the buildings of Turkemeneli party, Turkmen council, Turkmeneli television and several Turkmen business buildings and houses. All these happened under the vision of the Kerkuk military and policemen, whom they stand on the sidelines or participated the protestors.
We, the members of the Turkmen Brotherhood Club, which is considered one of the largest Turkmen civil society organizations, severely condemn these terrorist and provocative activities against Turkmen. We believe that the fundamentalist Kurdish leader parties should be held responsible of the events.
We urge the international community, particularly, the secretary general of the United Nations, members of the Security Council, the European Union to intervene to establish a mechanism to protect the Iraqi Turkmen, particularly in Kerkuk.
The Turkmen had already lost the confidence in the Iraqi Government which until now did not announce condemnation of the attacks on the Turkmen in Kerkuk. It is the time for the international community to achieve its moral task and protect the Iraqi Turkmen against the Kurdish attacks.
Dr. Mohammed Omar Kazanchi
Turkmen Brotherhood Club
To the kind attention of the secretary general of the United Nations: Mr. Ban Ki Moon
Subject: Condemnation and request of protection
What happened in the Kerkuk city on 28 July 2008 is not a solitary event. It is a part of systematic plan by the Kurdish politicians to benefit from the unstable situation in Iraq to suppress the Turkmen and absorb Kerkuk province. The Turkmen are a peaceful community believes in the unity of Iraq.
The Iraqi Turkmen are exposed to the aggressive assimilation policies and they suffered from different massacres in 1924, 1946 and 1959.
During the Ba’ath regime, the Turkmen were exposed to deportation and their lands confiscated, teaching in Turkmen language was prohibited and they were prevented to practice their culture. The Turkmen were asked to change their nationality to avoid discrimination. After occupation, the Turkmen of Iraq continued to be marginalized from administration and excluded from the political life. The Turkmen regions are terrorized the inhabitants were intimidated.
Today, the Kurdish militant parties which dominate the Iraqi administration practice all sorts of the policies to violate the simplest Human rights of the Iraqi Turkmen; the violation of the provincial laws by all the Kurdish authorities, which postpones the election in Kerkuk with power sharing, is the most recent abuse of the Turkmen rights.
At 28 July 2008, the Kurdish parties ordered the Kurdified administration, the staffs and shop owners from all the communities and the Kurdish peoples in Kerkuk to close their business buildings and leave their offices to participate in a protest against the Provincial Election Law. They also brought thousands of the Kurds from Erbil. The armed protestors worked to create chaotic circumstances.
When the protesters reached to the building of the Kerkuk governorate an explosion occurred leaving behind numbers of the injured and dead peoples. Thereafter, groups of the protestors started to attack the buildings of the Turkmen organizations. They set fire in the building of the Iraqi Turkmen front and injured the guards. Other groups attacked the buildings of Turkemeneli party, Turkmen council, Turkmeneli television and several Turkmen business buildings and houses. All these happened under the vision of the Kerkuk military and policemen, whom they stand on the sidelines or participated the protestors.
We, the members of the Turkmen Brotherhood Club, which is considered one of the largest Turkmen civil society organizations, severely condemn these terrorist and provocative activities against Turkmen. We believe that the fundamentalist Kurdish leader parties should be held responsible of the events.
We urge the international community, particularly, the secretary general of the United Nations, members of the Security Council, the European Union to intervene to establish a mechanism to protect the Iraqi Turkmen, particularly in Kerkuk.
The Turkmen had already lost the confidence in the Iraqi Government which until now did not announce condemnation of the attacks on the Turkmen in Kerkuk. It is the time for the international community to achieve its moral task and protect the Iraqi Turkmen against the Kurdish attacks.
Dr. Mohammed Omar Kazanchi
Turkmen Brotherhood Club
U.S. adviser to Kurds stands to reap oil profits
By JAMES GLANZ and WALTER GIBBS New York Times
OSLO, NORWAY — Peter Galbraith, an influential former U.S. ambassador, is a powerful voice on Iraq who helped shape the views of policymakers like Joe Biden and John Kerry. In 2005, he was also an adviser to the Kurdish regional government as Iraq wrote its constitution — tough and sensitive talks not least because of issues like how Iraq would divide up its vast oil wealth.
Now Galbraith, 58, son of the renowned economist John Kenneth Galbraith, stands to earn perhaps $100 million or more as a result of his closeness to the Kurds, his relations with a Norwegian oil company and constitutional provisions he helped the Kurds extract.
Galbraith has always described himself as an unpaid adviser to the Kurds, although he has spoken in general terms about having business interests in Kurdistan, as the north of Iraq is known.
So it came as a shock to many last month when Norwegian journalists at the newspaper Dagens Naeringsliv began publishing documents linking Galbraith to a Norwegian oil company with major contracts in Iraq.
Galbraith received the rights after he helped negotiate a potentially lucrative contract that allowed the Norwegian oil company DNO to drill for oil in the promising Dohuk region of Kurdistan, documents show. He says his actions were proper because he was at the time a private citizen deeply involved in Kurdish causes.
As the scope of Galbraith's financial interests in Kurdistan become clear, they have the potential to inflame some of Iraqis' deepest fears, including conspiracy theories that the true reason for the American invasion of their country was to take its oil. It may not help that outside Kurdistan, Galbraith's view that Iraq should be broken up along ethnic lines is considered offensive to many Iraqis' nationalism.
Biden and Kerry, who do not advocate such a partitioning of the country, were not aware of Galbraith's oil dealings in Iraq, aides to both say
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/world/6716151.html
OSLO, NORWAY — Peter Galbraith, an influential former U.S. ambassador, is a powerful voice on Iraq who helped shape the views of policymakers like Joe Biden and John Kerry. In 2005, he was also an adviser to the Kurdish regional government as Iraq wrote its constitution — tough and sensitive talks not least because of issues like how Iraq would divide up its vast oil wealth.
Now Galbraith, 58, son of the renowned economist John Kenneth Galbraith, stands to earn perhaps $100 million or more as a result of his closeness to the Kurds, his relations with a Norwegian oil company and constitutional provisions he helped the Kurds extract.
Galbraith has always described himself as an unpaid adviser to the Kurds, although he has spoken in general terms about having business interests in Kurdistan, as the north of Iraq is known.
So it came as a shock to many last month when Norwegian journalists at the newspaper Dagens Naeringsliv began publishing documents linking Galbraith to a Norwegian oil company with major contracts in Iraq.
Galbraith received the rights after he helped negotiate a potentially lucrative contract that allowed the Norwegian oil company DNO to drill for oil in the promising Dohuk region of Kurdistan, documents show. He says his actions were proper because he was at the time a private citizen deeply involved in Kurdish causes.
As the scope of Galbraith's financial interests in Kurdistan become clear, they have the potential to inflame some of Iraqis' deepest fears, including conspiracy theories that the true reason for the American invasion of their country was to take its oil. It may not help that outside Kurdistan, Galbraith's view that Iraq should be broken up along ethnic lines is considered offensive to many Iraqis' nationalism.
Biden and Kerry, who do not advocate such a partitioning of the country, were not aware of Galbraith's oil dealings in Iraq, aides to both say
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/world/6716151.html
Minorities In Iraq Face 'Catastrophe', Human Rights Watch Warns
November 10, 2009
By Nishant Dahiya
Iraq's minorities -- including Yazidis, Shabaks, Turkoman and Assyrian Christians -- face a "full-blown human rights catastrophe" as the long-festering territorial dispute between the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) and the central government in Baghdad "threatens to erupt again," Human Rights Watch reports.
The group warns that the minorities are being targeted by both insurgents and by the KRG as it aims to increase its hold on the disputed areas just south of their semi-autonomous region.
Though these minorities live in disputed land that stretches from Sinjar near the Syrian border to Khanaqin near the Iranian border, the HRW report concentrates on the northern province of Nineveh, Iraq's second most-populous. There, according to HRW, the minorities have been targeted by Sunni insurgents who regard them as "crusaders" and "infidels." Bombings in Nineveh have killed hundreds of minorities since 2007. In late 2008, "a systematic and orchestrated campaign of targeted killings and violence by insurgents left 40 Chaldo-Assyrians dead and more than 12,000 displaced from their homes in Mosul (the capital of Nineveh and regarded as the last urban strong-hold of al-Qaida in Iraq)."
The violence against the minorities is continuing. Since the June 2009 withdrawal of U.S. forces from Iraq's cities, "attacks in Nineveh, particularly against minority groups, increased dramatically, and... show no sign of abating," HRW says. In six weeks after the withdrawal of U.S. forces, according to HRW, attacks "in four different locations killed more than 137 and injured almost 500 from the Yazidi, Shabak and Turkmen communities."
The territories where the minorities reside are at the heart of the dispute between the Arabs and Kurds. During previous Iraqi governments, thousands of Kurds were removed and Arabs settled there in a process of "Arabization." Since 2003, the Kurds, in control of the region, re-settled Kurds there, and displaced many Arabs. The Kurds assert that all the disputed land has historically belonged to them, and claim it. Iraq's Arabs appear equally determined not to let that happen.
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The Kurds, in order to further their aims, "have offered minorities inducements while simultaneously wielding repression in order to keep them in tow," HRW says. Kurdish forces, according to HRW, "have mostly relied on intimidation, threats, arbitrary arrests, and detentions to coerce the support of minority communities." According to HRW, "in some extreme cases, they resorted to violence, including torture." The KRG denies all such allegations.
As the Kurds and Arabs struggle over the territories, they are being squeezed from both sides. As NPR's Quil Lawrence recently reported, Iraq's minorities "have survived over the years mostly by leaning toward the winning side. But there is no clear favorite at the moment, and a huge risk of being labeled a traitor if the wrong side prevails." And as NPR's Peter Kenyon has reported, Iraq's Christians have begun forming their own militias amidst increasing insecurity.
Human Rights Watch is recommending that the Kurdish Regional Government carry out investigations "of individuals, including Kurdish security forces" who may have been involved in the alleged "killings, beatings and torture against minorities." Among other recommendations, it also urging the KRG to "cease funding private militias;" "allow municipalities to hire police officers from their own communities;" and "invite the U.N." to "provide an impartial assessment of the situation." The report also calls on the Iraqi government to "protect minorities," and carry out its own investigations into the killings of the 40 Chaldo-Assyrian Christians in 2008.
http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2009/11/iraq_human_rights_watch_minori.html
Update at 11 a.m., Nov. 11. The Kurdistan Regional Government has released a statement that says, in part:
The KRG is ready and willing to look into each and every allegation, and we are ready to work on these issues under the legal framework of both the Kurdistan Region and the Republic of Iraq, with the help of HRW and other reputable human rights organisations. The KRG will investigate each specific claim outlined in the report carefully and thoroughly. There may be instances of maltreatment and neglect; the KRG does not claim to be flawless.
But the report reveals a systematic misperception of the circumstances in Ninevah and a worrying ignorance of Iraqi history. HRW therefore produces an inaccurate portrayal of the situation. Furthermore, due to the methodology employed to produce this report, it cannot be the basis for legitimate judgements or assertions.
The main thrust of this report could be grossly misleading and the KRG affirms its strong disagreement in this regard. The KRG has done more for the protection of minorities than any other entity in Iraq, and continues to insist on tolerance and peaceful coexistence in the Region and throughout Iraq.
(NPR's Nishant Dahiya is on assignment in Baghdad.)
By Nishant Dahiya
Iraq's minorities -- including Yazidis, Shabaks, Turkoman and Assyrian Christians -- face a "full-blown human rights catastrophe" as the long-festering territorial dispute between the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) and the central government in Baghdad "threatens to erupt again," Human Rights Watch reports.
The group warns that the minorities are being targeted by both insurgents and by the KRG as it aims to increase its hold on the disputed areas just south of their semi-autonomous region.
Though these minorities live in disputed land that stretches from Sinjar near the Syrian border to Khanaqin near the Iranian border, the HRW report concentrates on the northern province of Nineveh, Iraq's second most-populous. There, according to HRW, the minorities have been targeted by Sunni insurgents who regard them as "crusaders" and "infidels." Bombings in Nineveh have killed hundreds of minorities since 2007. In late 2008, "a systematic and orchestrated campaign of targeted killings and violence by insurgents left 40 Chaldo-Assyrians dead and more than 12,000 displaced from their homes in Mosul (the capital of Nineveh and regarded as the last urban strong-hold of al-Qaida in Iraq)."
The violence against the minorities is continuing. Since the June 2009 withdrawal of U.S. forces from Iraq's cities, "attacks in Nineveh, particularly against minority groups, increased dramatically, and... show no sign of abating," HRW says. In six weeks after the withdrawal of U.S. forces, according to HRW, attacks "in four different locations killed more than 137 and injured almost 500 from the Yazidi, Shabak and Turkmen communities."
The territories where the minorities reside are at the heart of the dispute between the Arabs and Kurds. During previous Iraqi governments, thousands of Kurds were removed and Arabs settled there in a process of "Arabization." Since 2003, the Kurds, in control of the region, re-settled Kurds there, and displaced many Arabs. The Kurds assert that all the disputed land has historically belonged to them, and claim it. Iraq's Arabs appear equally determined not to let that happen.
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The Kurds, in order to further their aims, "have offered minorities inducements while simultaneously wielding repression in order to keep them in tow," HRW says. Kurdish forces, according to HRW, "have mostly relied on intimidation, threats, arbitrary arrests, and detentions to coerce the support of minority communities." According to HRW, "in some extreme cases, they resorted to violence, including torture." The KRG denies all such allegations.
As the Kurds and Arabs struggle over the territories, they are being squeezed from both sides. As NPR's Quil Lawrence recently reported, Iraq's minorities "have survived over the years mostly by leaning toward the winning side. But there is no clear favorite at the moment, and a huge risk of being labeled a traitor if the wrong side prevails." And as NPR's Peter Kenyon has reported, Iraq's Christians have begun forming their own militias amidst increasing insecurity.
Human Rights Watch is recommending that the Kurdish Regional Government carry out investigations "of individuals, including Kurdish security forces" who may have been involved in the alleged "killings, beatings and torture against minorities." Among other recommendations, it also urging the KRG to "cease funding private militias;" "allow municipalities to hire police officers from their own communities;" and "invite the U.N." to "provide an impartial assessment of the situation." The report also calls on the Iraqi government to "protect minorities," and carry out its own investigations into the killings of the 40 Chaldo-Assyrian Christians in 2008.
http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2009/11/iraq_human_rights_watch_minori.html
Update at 11 a.m., Nov. 11. The Kurdistan Regional Government has released a statement that says, in part:
The KRG is ready and willing to look into each and every allegation, and we are ready to work on these issues under the legal framework of both the Kurdistan Region and the Republic of Iraq, with the help of HRW and other reputable human rights organisations. The KRG will investigate each specific claim outlined in the report carefully and thoroughly. There may be instances of maltreatment and neglect; the KRG does not claim to be flawless.
But the report reveals a systematic misperception of the circumstances in Ninevah and a worrying ignorance of Iraqi history. HRW therefore produces an inaccurate portrayal of the situation. Furthermore, due to the methodology employed to produce this report, it cannot be the basis for legitimate judgements or assertions.
The main thrust of this report could be grossly misleading and the KRG affirms its strong disagreement in this regard. The KRG has done more for the protection of minorities than any other entity in Iraq, and continues to insist on tolerance and peaceful coexistence in the Region and throughout Iraq.
(NPR's Nishant Dahiya is on assignment in Baghdad.)
Tuesday, 10 November 2009
Ölümnün 71. yılında Saygıyla anıyoruz
Ölümünün 71. yıldönümünde ATA'ya Mektup
VIDEOS :
http://www.belturk.be/go.php?go=3421f26&do=details&return=last_news&pg=1
BÜYÜK ATAM Sen bu dünyadan ebedi hayata gideli tam 71 yıl oldu..Tam 71 yıl önce bugün kurduğun cumhuriyeti, ve yaptığın devrimleri, omuz omuza beraberce savaştığın kahramanlara, onların çocuklarına, torunlarına kısacası biz Türk gençliğine emanet ederek aramızdan ayrıldın.
Sen yaşarken kuyunu kazmaya çalışanlar, senin devrimlerine, orduna, milletine saldıran güruh, senin ölümünle saldırılarını daha da pervasızca arttırdı.
Sen İnönü´de, Sakarya´da, Afyon´da savaşırken Ankara´da sana oturdukları koltuklardan ayak bağı olanlar, Kubilay´ı katledenler senin gidişinle daha da aşağılık bir biçimde kudurdular. Senin kapattıklarını açıp, açtıklarını ise kapattılar. Senin yaptıklarını bozmak için senin savaştığın emperyalizme sarıldılar. Bu cumhuriyetin kurulmasında zerre kadar faydası olmayanlar, senin gidişinle sana saldırmaya başladılar.. Tıpkı dediğin gibi;
´Bütün bu şerâitten daha elîm ve daha vahim olmak üzere, memleketin dahilinde, iktidara sahip olanlar gaflet ve dalâlet ve hattâ hıyanet içinde bulunabilirler. Hattâ bu iktidar sahipleri, şahsî menfaatlerini, müstevlîlerin siyasi emelleriyle tevhid edebilirler´
Büyük ATAM Bugün sana saldıranların torunları kurduğun cumhuriyetin ve ordunun temellerine dinamit koymaya devam ediyorlar.. Hem de dedelerinden daha da vahşice, daha da insafsızca..
Yarın bu dünyadan göçüşünün 71. yıldönümü.. Zalimlerin torunları yine huzuruna gelip senin ne büyük bir lider olduğunu söyleyecekler, halkın sana olan sevgisinden korktukları için. Yine fraglarını giyip yalandan gözyaşı dökecekler senin için. Kimisi ise açık açık sana hakaret edecek..
Utanmadan, sıkılmadan…Yüzü dahi kızarmayacak bu soysuzların, nenelerinin, bacılarının namusunu kurtarana hakaret ederken.. Senin rozetlerini takanları da göreceksin yarın huzurunda. Her işlerini senin adını anarak yapacaklar. Senin sırtından geçinecekler.
Ancak senden nefret edecekler. Senin kurduğun meclise Türkiye´yi bölme planlarını senin ölüm yıldönümünde getirip seni huzursuz etmeye çalışacaklar. ´Yas günü değil´ deyip içlerinde ki bayramı gizleyecekler halkı kandırmak için…
Büyük ATAM Sakın sen üzülme..
Senin kurduğun bu cumhuriyet seninle beraber savaşan, şehit düşen Ahmetlerin, Mehmetlerin torunlarına yani bizlere emanet.
Senin yüzüne korkudan gülüp sen cepheye gider gitmez saltanat yalakalığı yapanların, İngiliz, Amerikan, Fransız uşaklarının torunlarına emanet değil. Sen bugünleri onlarca yıl önce zaten görmüştün…
Ne demiştin o ölümsüz sözlerinde ;
´Cebren ve hile ile aziz vatanın bütün kaleleri zaptedilmiş, bütün tersanelerine girilmiş, bütün orduları dağıtılmış ve memleketin her köşesi bilfiil işgal edilmiş olabilir. Bütün bu şerâitten daha elîm ve daha vahim olmak üzere, memleketin dahilinde, iktidara sahip olanlar gaflet ve dalâlet ve hattâ hıyanet içinde bulunabilirler.
Hattâ bu iktidar sahipleri, şahsî menfaatlerini, müstevlîlerin siyasi emelleriyle tevhid edebilirler. Millet, fakr ü zaruret içinde harap ve bîtap düşmüş olabilir.
Ey Türk istikbalinin evlâdı! İşte, bu ahval ve şerâit içinde dahi vazifen, Türk istiklâl ve Cumhuriyetini kurtarmaktır! Muhtaç olduğun kudret, damarlarındaki asil kanda mevcuttur!´
Büyük Atam Bize bıraktığın emanetleri sonsuza kadar zalimlerin torunlarından koruyacağımıza söz veririz..
Thursday, 5 November 2009
İKİNCİ OSMANLI DEVLETİNE DOĞRU
Ey Türk Milleti; ikinci Osmanlı devletimiz hayırlı olsun. Ama bağımsız olarak değil, çeyrek düzeyde bağımsız olarak ABD’nin çizdiği sınırlar çerçevesinde Ortadoğu’nun hamilik (ağabeylik) görevimiz hepimize hayırlı uğurlu olsun. Çünkü, artık ABD Ortadoğu politikasını tamamıyla değiştirmiş bulunmaktadır. Kendisi Afrika kıtasına yönelmiştir. Aden körfezindeki korsanlık oyunlarının neden oynandığını biraz irdelerseniz oyunun sürecini tahmin edebilirsiniz. ABD’nin GBOP yeni stratejik oyun sahası olarak Afrika’yı seçmiştir. Ortadoğu’da da İsrail’in ve de Irak’ta ki tampon bölgesi olan Barzani’nin güvenliğini teminat altına alabilmek için bölgede ki ülkeler içerisinde bu göreve en uygun olarak bizi yani Türkiye’yi seçmiştir. Son zamanlarda ki Kürt açılımı, Ermeni açılımı, Ruhban okulu açılımı, Fener Rum Patriği (ekümeniklik) açılımı gibi bir dizi hareketlerin cereyan etmesinin arkasındaki yanıp sönen ışık bundandır.
AKP hükümetimiz hücrelerinde taşıdığı ikinci Osmanlıcılık hayallerini gerçekleştirme yolunda büyük adımlar attırılarak epey yol aldırılmıştır. Yukarıda sarf ettiğim sözler hayal değil gerçeğin yavaş yavaş ortaya çıkışıdır. Geçen gün Dışişleri Bakanımız Ahmed Davutoğlu, Dış Ticaretten sorumlu devlet bakanı Zafer Çağlayan ve beraberindeki heyetle birlikte Irak’a bir çeşit diplomatik gezi düzenlediler. Bu diplomatik gezinin duraklarından olan Erbil’de Beyaz Köşk’te Bölgesel Yönetim Başkanı Mesud Barzani ile heyetler arası bir görüşme yaptılar.
Heyetler arası görüşmelerin ardından ortak basın toplantısında konuşan Dışişleri Bakanı Davutoğlu, Barzani ile ortak bir vizyonu paylaştıklarını, Ortadoğu'yu Araplar, Kürtler ve Türklerin yeniden birlikte inşa etmesinin ve cesaretli adımlar atılmasının vakti geldiğini söyledi. Davutoğlu, Erbil'de bir başkonsolosluk açma kararı verdiklerini ve bu konsolosluğun mümkün olan en kısa zamanda açılmasını istediklerini dile getirdi. "Kendimizi evimizde hissettik. Ortadoğu'yu hep birlikte inşa edeceğiz. Biz Irak'ta etnik gruplar arasında ayrım görmüyoruz. Türk, Kürt, Arap hepsi bizim için aynı." diyen Bakan, teröre karşı gerekli adımların atılmasının da tam zamanı olduğunu vurguladı. "Burada terör varsa Türkiye'de de terör var. Artık insanlarımız Basra'dan Edirne'ye kadar rahat ve sorunsuz seyahat edebilsin. Dağlar bizi ayıramaz, birleştirir." diye ekledi. Erbil'i çok gelişmiş bulduğunu ifade eden Davutoğlu, "Hep birlikte Erbil'in daha da gelişmesi için katkı sağlayabiliriz. Bu, Irak ile Türkiye arasında köprü olacak. Biz Irak'ın Avrupa Birliği'ne açılan kapısıyız. Erbil de bizim Basra'ya açılan kapımız." ifadelerini kullandı.
Ey Türk Milleti, Dışişleri Bakanımız Ahmet Davutoğlu’nun bu açıklamasını iyi irdelerseniz projenin genel hatlarını kestirebilirsiniz. Bundan sonra her şeyi hazmetmeye alışın çünkü ülkemizde daha neler göreceğiz neler. Hepsi sıraya sokulmuş madde madde çıkartılıp gerçekleştirilmeyi bekliyor. Herkese hazmetme konusunda kolaylıklar dilerim. Mideniz ne kadar genişse hazmetmenizde o kadar kolay olur. Bir Müslüman Türk’ün midesi o kadar geniş değildir. Sağlıcakla kalın.
FİKRET ŞAHİN
03.11.2009
Wednesday, 4 November 2009
Who Are the Six Uighurs Released From Guantánamo to Palau?
by Andy Worthington, November 04, 2009
http://original.antiwar.com/worthington/2009/11/03/who-are-the-six-uighurs-released/
Over the weekend, six of the remaining 13 Uighurs in Guantánamo – Muslims from China’s Xinjiang province – were released to resume new lives in the tiny Pacific nation of Palau (population: 20,000).
I have written at length about the plight of Guantánamo’s Uighurs, innocent men caught up in the U.S.-led invasion of Afghanistan in October 2001, who were mostly seized and sold to U.S. forces by Pakistani villagers after fleeing a settlement in Afghanistan’s Tora Bora mountains where they had been living Spartan lives for several months, free from Chinese oppression.
Some were hoping to make their way to Turkey, to find work, but had found their way hard and had been advised to seek out the settlement; others nursed futile dreams of rising up against the Chinese government, and, while working to make the settlement habitable, occasionally shot a few rounds on their only weapon, an aged Kalashnikov.
I have also written about how the U.S. authorities knew, almost immediately, that these men had no connection to either al-Qaeda or the Taliban, but how, nevertheless, they flew them to Guantánamo, allowed Chinese interrogators to visit them, and tried, in their tribunals at Guantánamo, to make out that they were connected to a Uighur separatist group, which obligingly had been designated by the Bush administration as a terrorist group to secure leverage with the Chinese government in the run-up to the invasion of Iraq.
Article continued on :
http://merryabla64.wordpress.com/2009/11/04/who-are-the-six-uighurs-released-from-guantanamo-to-palau/
http://original.antiwar.com/worthington/2009/11/03/who-are-the-six-uighurs-released/
Over the weekend, six of the remaining 13 Uighurs in Guantánamo – Muslims from China’s Xinjiang province – were released to resume new lives in the tiny Pacific nation of Palau (population: 20,000).
I have written at length about the plight of Guantánamo’s Uighurs, innocent men caught up in the U.S.-led invasion of Afghanistan in October 2001, who were mostly seized and sold to U.S. forces by Pakistani villagers after fleeing a settlement in Afghanistan’s Tora Bora mountains where they had been living Spartan lives for several months, free from Chinese oppression.
Some were hoping to make their way to Turkey, to find work, but had found their way hard and had been advised to seek out the settlement; others nursed futile dreams of rising up against the Chinese government, and, while working to make the settlement habitable, occasionally shot a few rounds on their only weapon, an aged Kalashnikov.
I have also written about how the U.S. authorities knew, almost immediately, that these men had no connection to either al-Qaeda or the Taliban, but how, nevertheless, they flew them to Guantánamo, allowed Chinese interrogators to visit them, and tried, in their tribunals at Guantánamo, to make out that they were connected to a Uighur separatist group, which obligingly had been designated by the Bush administration as a terrorist group to secure leverage with the Chinese government in the run-up to the invasion of Iraq.
Article continued on :
http://merryabla64.wordpress.com/2009/11/04/who-are-the-six-uighurs-released-from-guantanamo-to-palau/
Tuesday, 3 November 2009
United Nations Human Rights Mechanisms
An extremely useful handbook on the United Nations human rights mechanisms has been published by the Civil Society unit of the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights:
http://www.ohchr.org/EN/AboutUs/CivilSociety/Documents/Handbook_en.pdf
http://www.ohchr.org/EN/AboutUs/CivilSociety/Documents/Handbook_en.pdf
Sunday, 1 November 2009
Inside Iraq- The Iraqi Diaspora (Video)
In case you missed it
Inside Iraq - The Iraqi diaspora - 9 Oct 09
Nidhal Garmo, CEO for Victims of War and Poverty
Raed Jarrar, Architect, AFSC American Friends Service Committee
Houzan Mahmood, Organization of Women’s Freedom in Iraq
Inside Iraq - The Iraqi diaspora - 9 Oct 09
Nidhal Garmo, CEO for Victims of War and Poverty
Raed Jarrar, Architect, AFSC American Friends Service Committee
Houzan Mahmood, Organization of Women’s Freedom in Iraq
to watch the video please click on:
http://www.equalityiniraq.com/index.php?option=com_seyret&Itemid=64&task=videodirectlink&id=11
http://www.equalityiniraq.com/index.php?option=com_seyret&Itemid=64&task=videodirectlink&id=11
Saturday, 31 October 2009
Brian Haw, peace protester, arrested!
Posted on Indymedia U.K.
Brian Haw Arrested
Peter Marshall 30.10.2009 23:28 Anti-militarism Iraq
Brian Haw was arrested around 7pm this evening - Friday 30 October 2009 - in Parliament Square. Photos Copyright (C) 2009 Peter Marshall, All rights reserved.
Brian Haw Arrested
Peter Marshall 30.10.2009 23:28 Anti-militarism Iraq
Brian Haw was arrested around 7pm this evening - Friday 30 October 2009 - in Parliament Square. Photos Copyright (C) 2009 Peter Marshall, All rights reserved.
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FREEDOM OF SPEECH IN THE U.K.
Indymedia reports:
Police tonight arrested peace protester Brian Haw who has been carrying out a permanent protest in Parliament Square opposite the Houses of Parliament since 2 June 2001, 3072 days ago.
After a lengthy argument, Mr Haw, who now walks on crutches, was walked away by two officers, pushed still protesting into the back of a police van and driven away. The arrest at around 7pm was witnessed by several of Brian's supporters in the square, one of whom filmed the event, as well as several photographers including myself who were present in the square for another protest.
This is not the first time that Brian Haw has been arrested, and throughout his protest he and his supporters have been subjected to considerable legal and illegal harassment by the police. The arresting officer is one against whom allegations have been made by the protesters of misconduct in previous incidents. I expect that further details will be posted here shortly.
http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2009/10/440918.html
see Brian's website:
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