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Putting The Record Straight

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Submitted by Mozere (United Kingdom), Oct 2, 2013 at 03:26

Historically the Kurds have been anti West, anti christian and Islamist. The PKK (armed Kurdish insurgents) is a Marxist organisation which received training and arms from the USSR.

The Kurds were enthusiastic members of the Hamidiah troops which took part in anti Christian carnages of 1890s, they also massacred a lot of Armenians in the 1915 deportations. More recently, they harrassed the Assyrian christians of Mardin district as a result of which the local christians migrated to Istanbul and abroad to Scandinavia.

Most of the Kurds are tribal and deeply religious and traditionalist Sunnis.Saidi Nursi ,a Kurd from Bitlis,is a strongly anti secularist anti republican and by implication an anti Western figure who is revered by many of the Islamists of Turkey.

Kurdish problem in Turkey will be solved by the increasing democratisation of Turkey ( which really is happening albeit rather slowly) rather then interference by the foreign powers.

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Title Commenter Date Thread
2Kurdish Independence [130 words]emmettOct 1, 2013 11:46210162
2Putting The Record Straight [150 words]MozereOct 2, 2013 03:26210162
2Turkish imperialism and delusions [591 words]dhimmi no moreOct 26, 2013 10:27210162
about janissaries [61 words]servet cevikOct 28, 2013 14:44210162
yeni ceri [39 words]roger spleenOct 29, 2013 06:05210162
1The Janissaries were abducted Christian boys! What a crime [229 words]dhimmi no moreNov 1, 2013 07:37210162
Added resources [9 words]David W. LincolnSep 30, 2013 14:59210152
1Question on a Kurdish State [47 words]
w/response from Daniel Pipes
DavidSep 29, 2013 15:01210135
4The Kurds should have their own country [138 words]dhimmi no moreSep 29, 2013 07:57210125
3do your math carefully [319 words]servet cevikOct 14, 2013 16:21210125
3The Kurds and the barbarians [321 words]dhimmi no moreOct 20, 2013 07:56210125
5facts rule over our personal ideas and wishes [393 words]servet cevikOct 22, 2013 04:24210125
5The Kurds and the barbarians part two [904 words]dhimmi no moreOct 23, 2013 07:25210125
1Empires [142 words]Kemal TarikOct 25, 2013 18:00210125
3Exposing Turkish propagandists [48 words]dhimmi no moreOct 27, 2013 07:33210125
8a turkish saying goes "such amount of ignorance is only possible by special training" [1247 words]servet cevikOct 27, 2013 20:33210125
And there is a Kuffar saying: The Turks murdered millions of Armenians and Greeks and Syrians and they still deny it [65 words]dhimmi no moreOct 29, 2013 08:28210125

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