Baran [a Kurd], 24 August 2011 , 05:59 "@Antifon, your blog, http://bit.ly/qmY246, is excellent and I highly recommend it to all thinking people whatever their nationality. Kurds and Kurdish leaders have been saying for some time now that they want the same rights, freedoms and status successive Turkish governments have belligerently and violently demanded for Turkish Cypriots.... but their voices are not being heard as much as they should! Sadly, it seems more blood, death and destruction are needed for the Turkish mentality to change! ..... It doesn't take much for the dormant Kemalist virus to flare up and rob the best of the Turks of their sense of fairness and most critical faculties! ...... Nevertheless, your optimism can be infectious and therefore I thank you for your insight! Keep more coming please ......"
See entire exchange & link to the article in reverse order below:
Baran, 22 August 2011 , 15:09 "All that Mr Erdogan needs to do to end the bloodshed between Kurds and Turks is to address all citizens of Turkey and say the Kurdish citizens of Turkey are entitled to the same rights, freedoms and status Turkey so aggressively advocates for a relatively handful Turks who are citizens of another independent country,that is, Cyprus! ...... That would be morally the right thing to do as well. So, what or who is stopping him? Does he or his cronies enjoy seeing flag-draped coffins? Do his cronies financially, economically benefit from the senseless spilling of young Turkish and Kurdish men"
Antifon, 22 August 2011 , 01:22 "Why not use your ideas in Cyprus to address the Kurdish demands? After all, Kurds are doing to you today exactly what you taught the Turkish Cypriot minority of Cyprus to do in the 1950s and 1960s: defiance, terrorism, self-segregation. Study this document as it may give you ideas: http://bit.ly/qmY246"
Antifon, 23 August 2011 , 13:06 "@Baran (22/8, 15:09), you ask an extremely good question. Another very good question is: why aren't more Turks and Kurds in Turkey asking the same? Where is decent Turkish and Kurdish COMMON SENSE? The argument is immense! As I say on the first page of my blog: Linking the Cyprus issue to the Kurdish issue of Turkey is the only effective way to [A] uncover Turkish hypocrisy on her approach to majority-minority community relations [B] bring about a fair and permanent settlement to Cyprus' Turkish problem and [C] help bring community status recognition for the close to 20 million Kurds of Turkey. A win-win-win for the Kurdish, Turkish and Cypriot peoples. It may also bring about the first ever truly democratic constitution in Turkey's history!"
Baran, 22 August 2011 , 15:09 "All that Mr Erdogan needs to do to end the bloodshed between Kurds and Turks is to address all citizens of Turkey and say the Kurdish citizens of Turkey are entitled to the same rights, freedoms and status Turkey so aggressively advocates for a relatively handful Turks who are citizens of another independent country,that is, Cyprus! ...... That would be morally the right thing to do as well. So, what or who is stopping him? Does he or his cronies enjoy seeing flag-draped coffins? Do his cronies financially, economically benefit from the senseless spilling of young Turkish and Kurdish men"
Antifon, 22 August 2011 , 01:22 "Why not use your ideas in Cyprus to address the Kurdish demands? After all, Kurds are doing to you today exactly what you taught the Turkish Cypriot minority of Cyprus to do in the 1950s and 1960s: defiance, terrorism, self-segregation. Study this document as it may give you ideas: http://bit.ly/qmY246"
