Turkey's cease-fire in Syria won't do a thing to ease a century of Kurdish oppression (via latimesopinion)
President Trump is wrong. Kurds have not been natural enemies of Turks, fighting for hundreds of years. In fact, Kurdish lords were allied with the Ottoman rulers against Iran in the early 16century, and that military and cultural connection stayed strong for centuries. Said Nursi, the most influential Muslim modernist thinker of Turkey, for example, was Kurdish.century is also a history of oppression of the Kurds. The creation of modern Turkey after World War I foreclosed a potential Kurdistan.
Repressive measures against Kurds intensified after the 1980 military coup in Turkey, with the government actively denying Kurdish identity and calling Kurds “mountain Turks.
Turkey justifies its recent invasion of northern Syria by claiming that the Kurdish party in Syria, the Democratic Union Party, or PYD, is a threat. There are close ties between the PKK and the PYD, but it is important to remember that as late as the summer of 2015, Salih Muslim, the co-chair of the PYD at the time, was allowed to enter Turkey freely for diplomatic relations that could well have resulted in the opening of an office of representation for the PYD in Ankara.
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