See the alarming YouTube video at bottom. Let’s pray for and pay homage to Kurds in Turkey, our less fortunate Iranian brothers who were injured, brutalized, and murdered in Turkey after Turkey banned certain Kurdish cities from celebrating Persian/Kurdish Norooz/Newroz 1387/2008.
This video may not be so shocking to us, but to the West’s eyes it is so disturbing that YouTube will ask you to log in and confirm your age. Plus, there were so many who wished to rate this horrific video YouTube disabled its rating stars.
After the fall of the Muslim Ottoman Empire, by a cruel quirk and fate of history, twenty million Kurds ended up under modern, ultra-nationalist Turkish government who, denying the very existence of Kurds, calling them “Mountain Turks”, to this date remains arrogantly ignorant, let alone appreciate and respect, that Newroz is the oldest and most important annual festive tradition for Kurds, Iranians, Zoroastrians and all Persian-speaking nations.
Tibet? Except worse: How Neo-Nazi Turkey’s proud SS Soldiers breed future ‘terrorists’!
In the following video, do the soldiers’ boots pounding the streets, brandishing beating sticks and machine guns, boasting slogans about their superior race remind of Hitler’s Germany?
March 22nd, 2008: A Turkish security squad ruthlessly breaks the right arm of Cuneyt Ertuş- a 15 year-old Kurdish boy. Cuneyt’s father was looking for him for two days until he saw his son’s arm being broken on Roj TV, the Kurdish Satellite TV banned by Turkey. Now Cuneyt is in jail for resisting arrest! So far it is not known if he is even receiving basic medical aid.
See how Turkish army & masked police terrorize & repeatedly beat everyone, including innocent children & women dressed colorfully to celebrate their Newroz- the weekend of 21 March.
The unlucky teenager of this video was in the wrong place at the wrong time.
If he were a Palestinian or an Iraqi, this video would make sensational World headlines. It would be played repeatedly on CNN. Al-Jazeera and 22 Arab and Muslim countries’ media and TV would spin it and work it over a zillion times until it got U.N attention, forcing Turkey for a just investigation, official apology and compensation.
As it is, this wretched boy’s father says he does not have the funds even to hire a lawyer.
Sadly the Middle Eastern media and internet sites and even most Iranian sites, who would be quick to post anything ‘liberal’ about the victims of ‘no-brainer’ Bush’s wars or about Palestinian victims, would turn a blind eye on the abominable sufferings of their friendless Kurdish brothers (as if the over-popular but just Palestine cause did not already enjoy the automatic support of 22 Arab/Muslim governments and their embassies, backed-up by Arab oil wealth!)
Why? Could it be because the inhuman crimes against Kurds are not committed directly by Israel or by the evil West but by a Muslim country? Even though Turkey as a NATO members is and has been aided hugely with our tax payers’ money and modern weapons! Moreover, recent Turkey’s illegal war on Iraqi Kurdistan which destroyed 600 ancient Kurdish villages (adding to the 9,000 already destroyed by Saddam and Turkey), using Bush-like pretext of ‘War on Terror’, was officially supported fully by U.S. Pentagon intelligence and Israeli-supplied pilot-less planes.
Here’s the alarming video- please forward and add comments of protest:
If you YouTube is banned, you can watch a similar video here:
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x4vbtn_newroz-tragedy-2008_news
Join new cross-nation Group at Facebook.com: ‘Free Oppressed Nations- Tibet, Kurdistan…’ Group includes Iran, Darfur, Afghanistan, Palestine, Rwanda, Chechnya…
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