Tim Drayton wrote:Sorry to interrupt again, but it is this dim chap again. Still trying to get my thick head around things. I am told that anybody who thinks that the majority of Kurds living in Turkey do not want an independent Kurdistan is stupid, which is fine, but only last year the Times of London sent a reporter into the mountains to interview acting head of the PKK, Murad Karayılan, in which he said:
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/w ... 360955.eceKurds do not want to continue the war. We believe we can solve the Kurdish question without spilling more blood. We are ready for a peaceful and democratic solution in Turkey — to be solved within Turkey’s borders.
So here we have the head of the PKK, as far as I know the most militant Kurdish organisation that until the recent ceasefire was waging an all-out guerilla war against the Turkish state, saying that he wants a solution 'within Turkey'. Forgive my stupidity, but I do not understand how a 'solution within Turkey' is compatible with an 'independent Kurdistan'. And this is the leader of the most militant Kurdish organisation there is. I cannot get my tiny brain around this. If you think that the majority of Kurds in Turkey want something other than an independent state you are said to be naive or stupid, yet I cannot give any other interpretation to this quote from the acting leader of the PKK. Can anybody out there please help me?
I am not sure if I can help you Tim, you might be helpless.
You seem unable to understand the difference between what Kurds
WANT and what some of them are willing to
ACCEPT since they have been unable to get what the really want.
It is the same case with Cyprus. What does the majority of Cypriots
WANT Tim? A BBF? Are you really that stupid?
Both the Cypriots and Kurds might be willing to compromise and accept a lot less of what they really want because we are
forced and blackmailed. The Turkish army has so far killed 10s of thousands of Kurds, bombing many of their villages out of existence. In Cyprus they killed 1000s with their invasion, and be sure that if we kept fighting trying to defend our own island they would kill 10s of thousands more.