Par Habib Tawa
Publié dans Afrique-Asie (juin 2009)
Le Grand Jeu qui oppose Russes, Chinois et Américains et la résurgence de l’islam centrasiatique pourraient être dépassés demain par des remous de plus grande ampleur affectant le pivot de l’Eurasie.
La force turque y supplantera-t-elle la subtilité iranienne ?
Rivaux au coeur de l’Asie
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lundi 29 juin 2009
CIA Crucified Captive In Abu Ghraib Prison
By Sherwood Ross
June 28, 2009
The Central Intelligence Agency crucified a prisoner in Abu Ghraib prison near Baghdad, according to a report published in The New Yorker magazine.
"A forensic examiner found that he (the prisoner) had essentially been crucified; he died from asphyxiation after having been hung by his arms, in a hood, and suffering broken ribs," the magazine’s Jane Mayer writes in the magazine’s June 22nd issue. "Military pathologists classified the case a homicide." The date of the murder was not given.
"No criminal charges have ever been brought against any C.I.A. officer involved in the torture program, despite the fact that at least three prisoners interrogated by agency personnel died as a result of mistreatment," Mayer notes.
An earlier report, by John Hendren in The Los Angeles Times, indicated other torture killings. And Human Rights First says nearly 100 detainees have died in U.S. custody in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Hendren reported that one Manadel Jamadi died "of blunt-force injuries" complicated by "compromised respiration" at Abu Ghraib prison "while he was with Navy SEALs and other special operations troops." Another victim, Abdul Jaleel, died while gagged and shackled to a cell door with his hands over his head." Yet another prisoner, Maj. Gen. Abid Mowhosh, former commander of Iraq’s air defenses, "died of asphyxiation due to smothering and chest compression" in Qaim, Iraq.
"There is no question that U.S. interrogations have resulted in deaths," says Anthony Romero, executive director of the ACLU. "High-ranking officials who knew about the torture and sat on their hands and those who created and endorsed these policies must be held accountable. America must stop putting its head in the sand and deal with the torture scandal." At least scores of detainees in U.S. custody have died and homicide is suspected. As far back as May, 2004, the Pentagon conceded at least 37 deaths of prisoners in its custody in Iraq and Afghanistan had prompted investigations.
Nathaniel Raymond, of Physicians for Human Rights, told The New Yorker, "We still don’t know how many detainees were in the black sites, or who they were. We don’t fully know the White House’s role, or the C.I.A.’s role. We need a full accounting, especially as it relates to health professionals."
Recently released Justice memos, he noted, contain numerous references to CIA medical personnel participating in coercive interrogation sessions. "They were the designers, the legitimizers, and the implementers," Raymond said. "This is arguably the single greatest medical-ethics scandal in American history. We need answers."
The ACLU obtained its information from the Pentagon through a Freedom of Information suit. Documents received included 44 autopsies and death reports as well as a summary of autopsy reports of people seized in Iraq and Afghanistan. An ACLU statement noted, "This covers just a fraction of the total number of Iraqis and Afghanis who have died while in U.S. custody." (Italics added).
Torture by the CIA has been facilitated by the Agency’s ability to hide prisoners in "black sites" kept secret from the Red Cross, to hold prisoners off the books, and to detain them for years without bringing charges or providing them with lawyers.
Kenneth Roth, executive director of Human Rights Watch, denounced the Obama administration for considering "prevention detention," The New Yorker’s Mayer wrote. Roth said this tactic "mimics the Bush Administration’s abusive approach."
From all indications, CIA Director Panetta has no intention of bringing to justice CIA officials involved in the systematic torture of prisoners. Panetta told Mayer, "I’m going to give people the benefit of the doubt…If they do the job that they’re paid to do, I can’t ask for a hell of a lot more."
Such sentiments differ markedly from those Panetta wrote in an article published last year in the January Washington Monthly: "We either believe in the dignity of the individual, the rule of law, and the prohibition of cruel and unusual punishment, or we don’t. There is no middle ground."
One way to discern who really runs a country is to look to see which individuals, if any, are above the law. In the Obama administration, like its predecessors, they include the employees of the CIA. Crucifixions they execute in the Middle East differ from those reported in the New Testament in at least one important respect: Jesus Christ had a trial.
28 June 2009
(Sherwood Ross formerly reported for major dailies and wire services. To contact him or contribute to his Anti-War News Service: sherwoodr1@yahoo.com)
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dimanche 28 juin 2009
TAZEHURMATU KATLİAMI VE PKK’LI SALİH’İN TÜRKMENLERE ZULMÜ
Ali Kerküklü
Ali Kerküklü İstihbarat Oyunları Petrol Ve Kerkük’ün YazarıTürkmen Kasabası Tazehurmatu Haritadan Silinmek İstendi Kerkük'ün 20 km. güneyindeki Türkmen kasabası Tazehurmatu’da 20 Haziran 2009 Cumartesi günü öğle saatlerinde meydana gelen patlamada en az 83 kişi hayatını kaybetti ve 200’ün üstünde Türkmen yaralandı.
Tazehurmatu’nun merkezindeki cami yakınında Pazar yerinde bomba yüklü kamyon patladı.Bu toplu katliamı yapanlar kana susamış,canavar ve hasta ruhlu insanlar olmalıdır.Bir anlamda bu patlamadaki hedef ve amaç Türkmen kasabası Tazehurmatuyu haritadan silmekti.Bu eli kanlılar Irak Türklerini asla yok edemeyeceklerdir,güçleri de buna yetmeyecektir.
Diktatör Saddam Hüseyin de Irak Türklerini yok etmeye yemin etmişti,yok edebildi mi?
Saddam’ın sonunu herkes gördü.
İnanın Türkmenlere bunları yapanların sonu da Saddam’kinden daha beter olacaktır. Tazehurmatu’ya koşan yüzlerce Türkmen’in yardımı ile ölenlerin cesetleri toplanırken, yaralılar da Hastanelere ulaştırıldı. Ölen ve yaralıların çoğunu, kadın,yaşlı ve çocuklar oluşturuyordu.
Patlama sonucu savaş alanına dönen Tazehurmatu’da 150’ın üzerinde evin de yıkıldığını yetkililer tarafından bildirildi. Bütün Türkmenleri yasa boğan bu faciadan dolayı Türkmen bölgelerinde 3 günlük yas ilan edildi. Yürekleri burkan ve vahşetten öte bir insanlık faciasına dönüşen bu hain ve korkak saldırı, Irak Türklerini haklı davalarından asla yıldıramayacaktır.
Tam tersine Irak Türkleri haklı davalarına sımsıkı sarılacaklardır.
Bir yiğit şehit olur,bin yiğit doğar.Türkmen anaları daha ne yiğitler doğuracaktır.
Türkmen toplumu ve özellikle Tazehurmatudaki insanlarımıza başsağlığı, şehit düşen masum Türkmenlere Allah’tan rahmet,mekanları cennet ve yaralarımıza da acil şifalar diliyoruz.Hepimiz Tazehurmtuluyuz.
PKK’LI SALİH
Yıllardır Kürtler, Irak’ın Kuzeyine ve o bölgeden Türkiye ve yurtdışına seyahat eden her Türkmeni sorgulama ve soruşturmaya tabi tutmuşlardır. Bu Türkmen Irak vatandaşı da olsa, yabancı ülkenin pasaportuna sahip de olsa, yine sorgulanmaktadır.
Yıllardan beri Kürtlerin yönetiminde olan Türkmen şehri Erbil, Süleymaniye ve Dohuk şehirlerine giriş ve kontrol noktaları, Türkmenler için işkence barınağı olmuştur. Bu kontrol noktalarında sorgulamalar başlar ve şansın iyi giderse, orada tanıdığın varsa (Kefil) ve Kürtçe de biliyorsan o zaman bu şehirlere giriş yapabilirsin.
Şayet yolculuk Dohuk, Zaho ve Türkiye ise en az 20–30 kontrol noktasından geçmelisin (Hani Irak’ın Kuzeyi Güvenliydi). Aluka Kontrol noktasında (Aluka, Dohuk’a 15–20 dakikalık ve Türkiye sınır kapısına 1 saatlik mesafededir) Türkmenler için özel bir sorgulama ve soruşturma odası vardır.
Aluka Kontrol noktasındaki Peşmergeler önce milliyetini (Arap, Türk, Kürt) sorar, Kimlik, pasaport ve Ehliyete bakarak Türkmenleri hemen sorgulama odasına gönderirler. Kadın, erkek, yaşlı, genç ve çocuk demeden her Türkmen sorgu ve soruşturmaya tabi tutulur. Bu sorgu ve soruşturmayı yürüten kişi ise PKK’lı Salih kod adını kullanan Türkiye Kürtlerinden olan bir Türk vatandaşıdır. Kod Adlı PKK’lı Salih bu göreve KDP yetkilileri tarafından (KDP, Mesut BARZANİ’nin Partisi) atanmış, maaşını da onlardan alır.Anlayacağnız dünün PKK’lısı bugün Kürt istihbaratı (PARASTİN) için çalışmaktadır.
Şimdi soracaksınız ki, Türkiye Kürdü olduğunu nereden biliyorsunuz? Bu kişi, sorgulama yazılarını Türkiye Türkçesiyle yazmaktadır. Arapça bilmez, Türkçeyi Güneydoğu şivesiyle konuşur. Kürtçe şivesi ise Türkiye Kürtlerinin şivesidir. Tipik bir Kürt yapısı vardır: orta boylu, siyah saçlı ve siyah bıyıklı, esmer ve az tıknaz yapıdadır. Onu hemen hemen bütün Türkmenler tanır, hatta Irak Türkleri onun için hoyrat bile düzenlemişlerdir.
Bağla Başını Türkmanı
Tanısın PKK’lı Salih Seni
Bu insan düşmanı kişinin, MOSSAD (İsrail İstihbarat Örgütü) tarafından eğitildiği bilinmektedir.
PKK’lı Salih’in tek görevi vardır: Irak Türklerini yıldırmak, sindirmek ve psikolojik baskı altında tutmaktır. Türkmenlere eziyet etmek için PKK’li Salih’e sınırsız yetki verilmiştir. Dohuk, Zaho ve Türkiye’ye giden bütün araba ve otobüs şoförlerini korkutup tehdit etmektedir. Bu şoförlerin bazıları Türkmenler hakkında PKK’lı Salih’e bilgi aktarmaktadırlar; Aluka kontrol noktasından geçmeyen şoförlerin ise ehliyetlerine el koyup trafiğe çıkmalarını engellemektedir. Türkmenler, şoförlere başka bir yoldan geçmelerini istediklerinde şoförler, PKK’lı Salih’e uğramaları gerektiğini söylemektedirler, yani, anlayacağınız, PKK’lı Salih’in gazabından korkmaktadırlar.
PKK’lı Salih’in sorgu odasının kapısı önünde yüzlerce Türkmen beklemektedir. Kadın, erkek, yaşlı, genç, çocuk, soğukta, sıcakta, yağmurda ve karda- hiç fark etmez. Türkmenler, açık alanda, sorgu odasının kapısı önünde sorgulanma sırasını beklerler; sıranın gelmesi saatler sürmektedir. Sorgulanmaya alınanlara üst aramasını PKK’lı Salih kendi yapmaktadır. Kimlik, pasaport fotokopisini ister, yoksa, fotokopiyi kendi çeker. Adres ve telefon numaralarını, cep telefonundaki numaralar ve hafıza kartını tek tek inceler, kim bunlar, diye sorar? Bu kişiler hakkında bilgi ister, niçin ve nereye gidildiğini, gidilen yerin adresi ve telefon numarasını da alır.
CD veya CD’ler varsa bu CD’ler tek tek incelenir. Öğrenci ise hangi üniversite ve bölümde okuduğu sorulur, öğrencinin notları ve adresi istenir, çantası didik didik aranır. Nasıl geçindiği, burs alıp almadığını bilmek ister. Hele Türkiye’de öğrenciyse Allah o öğrencinin yardımcısı olsun; çünkü bütün suçlamalar,iftiralar ve tehditler kendisine yöneltilir. Bulduğu en ufak şeyden sorgulamayı genişletir, örneğin, küçük bir kağıt, not, yazı, gazete kupürü, kitap, dergi ve fotoğraf bulduğunda Peşmergeleri çağırarak o kişiyi tutuklattırır. Tutuklanan kişi günlerce işkence ve psikolojik baskıdan geçirilir. Bazen de Türkmenleri kontrolden geçirmeyip geri göndererek, geçişlerine izin verdirmez. Geri gönderilenler diğer kontrol noktasında Peşmergeler tarafından tutuklanıp hapse atılır. Sizce İsrail’e girmek bundan daha kolay değil midir? İnsanın aklına şu soru gelir: neden sadece Türkmenler bu insanlık dışı yöntemle sorgulanmaktadır? Bir suç mu işlediler? Başkaları gibi devlete silah mı çektiler? Devleti yağmalayıp talan mı ettiler? Ülkeleri Irak’a ihanet edip de ülkelerini mi sattılar? Hayır. Türkmenlere bu kin, nefret, eziyet, işkence ve haksızlık nedendir? Diktatör ve totaliter ülkelerde bunlar yapılır, ama hani Irak’a demokrasi ve özgürlük gelmişti!. Irak’lı Kürtlerin yorumuna göre demokrasi ve özgürlük sözcüklerinin anlamı baskı, zulüm, işkence ve diğerlerine yaşama hakkı tanımamaktır.
Irak Türkleri tüm dünyaya sesleniyor: O masum gördüğünüz Irak’lı Kürtler, biz Türkmenlere kendi yurdumuzda yaşama hakkı tanımıyor!Dün merhamet dilenenler,bugün barbar olmuşlar.Yani Saddam’a rahmet okutuyorlar.
Irak Türklerine yapılan bu baskı,zulüm,işkence ve haksızlıkları uluslararası platform ve insan hakları kuruluşlarına taşımalıyız.Parti ve sivil kuruluşlarımız bu olaylara sessiz kalmamalıdır.
Tabi ki birlikte bu olayların üzerine gitmeliyiz. Irak kurulduğundan beri Irak Türklerinin yüzü gülmemiştir. 35 senelik Saddam baskısından kurtuldular, derken, aynı baskıya Kürtler tarafından maruz kalmaktalar!Aluka kontrol noktası, Simel (Simele, Sumayyil) kasabasına çok yakındır. Simel Donuk’a bağlıdır, şehrin batısında ve şehir merkezine 16 km uzaklıktadır. Aynı zaman da Simel Zaho’ya götüren uluslar arası yol üzerindedir. Simel, Asurilerin yoğun yaşadığı bir kasabadır. Ağustos 1933’te Simel’de, Asurilere Kürtler tarafından büyük bir katliam yapıldı, yüzlerce Asuri hunharca öldürüldü ve tarihe de “SİMEL KATLİAMI” olarak geçti. Bu katliamı Kürt General Bekir SITKI ve taraftarı yapmıştı.
The Lethbridge Herald,August 18, 1933
Alberta/Kanada18 Ağustos 1933
Tarihli Kanada’da Yayınlanan Lethbridge Herald Gazetesinin Kürtler tarafından Asurilere Yapılan Katliamı Kaleme Aldığı Yazısı
Temmuz 1959’da Irak Türklerine de Kürtler tarafından bu katliamın aynısı yapılmıştı. 3 gün 3 gece Türkmenler vahşice öldürüldü ve bu olay, tarihe “KERKÜK KATLİAMI” adıyla geçti. Kadere bakın: Katliamın yapıldığı yolun kenarında (Simel) Irak Türkleri baskı, zulüm, işkence ve tutuklamalara maruz kalmakta ve bu durum karşısında, ne yazık ki, kimsenin kılı bile kıpırdamamaktadır. Galiba Irak Türkleri insan sayılmamaktadır.
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Ali Kerküklü İstihbarat Oyunları Petrol Ve Kerkük’ün YazarıTürkmen Kasabası Tazehurmatu Haritadan Silinmek İstendi Kerkük'ün 20 km. güneyindeki Türkmen kasabası Tazehurmatu’da 20 Haziran 2009 Cumartesi günü öğle saatlerinde meydana gelen patlamada en az 83 kişi hayatını kaybetti ve 200’ün üstünde Türkmen yaralandı.
Tazehurmatu’nun merkezindeki cami yakınında Pazar yerinde bomba yüklü kamyon patladı.Bu toplu katliamı yapanlar kana susamış,canavar ve hasta ruhlu insanlar olmalıdır.Bir anlamda bu patlamadaki hedef ve amaç Türkmen kasabası Tazehurmatuyu haritadan silmekti.Bu eli kanlılar Irak Türklerini asla yok edemeyeceklerdir,güçleri de buna yetmeyecektir.
Diktatör Saddam Hüseyin de Irak Türklerini yok etmeye yemin etmişti,yok edebildi mi?
Saddam’ın sonunu herkes gördü.
İnanın Türkmenlere bunları yapanların sonu da Saddam’kinden daha beter olacaktır. Tazehurmatu’ya koşan yüzlerce Türkmen’in yardımı ile ölenlerin cesetleri toplanırken, yaralılar da Hastanelere ulaştırıldı. Ölen ve yaralıların çoğunu, kadın,yaşlı ve çocuklar oluşturuyordu.
Patlama sonucu savaş alanına dönen Tazehurmatu’da 150’ın üzerinde evin de yıkıldığını yetkililer tarafından bildirildi. Bütün Türkmenleri yasa boğan bu faciadan dolayı Türkmen bölgelerinde 3 günlük yas ilan edildi. Yürekleri burkan ve vahşetten öte bir insanlık faciasına dönüşen bu hain ve korkak saldırı, Irak Türklerini haklı davalarından asla yıldıramayacaktır.
Tam tersine Irak Türkleri haklı davalarına sımsıkı sarılacaklardır.
Bir yiğit şehit olur,bin yiğit doğar.Türkmen anaları daha ne yiğitler doğuracaktır.
Türkmen toplumu ve özellikle Tazehurmatudaki insanlarımıza başsağlığı, şehit düşen masum Türkmenlere Allah’tan rahmet,mekanları cennet ve yaralarımıza da acil şifalar diliyoruz.Hepimiz Tazehurmtuluyuz.
PKK’LI SALİH
Yıllardır Kürtler, Irak’ın Kuzeyine ve o bölgeden Türkiye ve yurtdışına seyahat eden her Türkmeni sorgulama ve soruşturmaya tabi tutmuşlardır. Bu Türkmen Irak vatandaşı da olsa, yabancı ülkenin pasaportuna sahip de olsa, yine sorgulanmaktadır.
Yıllardan beri Kürtlerin yönetiminde olan Türkmen şehri Erbil, Süleymaniye ve Dohuk şehirlerine giriş ve kontrol noktaları, Türkmenler için işkence barınağı olmuştur. Bu kontrol noktalarında sorgulamalar başlar ve şansın iyi giderse, orada tanıdığın varsa (Kefil) ve Kürtçe de biliyorsan o zaman bu şehirlere giriş yapabilirsin.
Şayet yolculuk Dohuk, Zaho ve Türkiye ise en az 20–30 kontrol noktasından geçmelisin (Hani Irak’ın Kuzeyi Güvenliydi). Aluka Kontrol noktasında (Aluka, Dohuk’a 15–20 dakikalık ve Türkiye sınır kapısına 1 saatlik mesafededir) Türkmenler için özel bir sorgulama ve soruşturma odası vardır.
Aluka Kontrol noktasındaki Peşmergeler önce milliyetini (Arap, Türk, Kürt) sorar, Kimlik, pasaport ve Ehliyete bakarak Türkmenleri hemen sorgulama odasına gönderirler. Kadın, erkek, yaşlı, genç ve çocuk demeden her Türkmen sorgu ve soruşturmaya tabi tutulur. Bu sorgu ve soruşturmayı yürüten kişi ise PKK’lı Salih kod adını kullanan Türkiye Kürtlerinden olan bir Türk vatandaşıdır. Kod Adlı PKK’lı Salih bu göreve KDP yetkilileri tarafından (KDP, Mesut BARZANİ’nin Partisi) atanmış, maaşını da onlardan alır.Anlayacağnız dünün PKK’lısı bugün Kürt istihbaratı (PARASTİN) için çalışmaktadır.
Şimdi soracaksınız ki, Türkiye Kürdü olduğunu nereden biliyorsunuz? Bu kişi, sorgulama yazılarını Türkiye Türkçesiyle yazmaktadır. Arapça bilmez, Türkçeyi Güneydoğu şivesiyle konuşur. Kürtçe şivesi ise Türkiye Kürtlerinin şivesidir. Tipik bir Kürt yapısı vardır: orta boylu, siyah saçlı ve siyah bıyıklı, esmer ve az tıknaz yapıdadır. Onu hemen hemen bütün Türkmenler tanır, hatta Irak Türkleri onun için hoyrat bile düzenlemişlerdir.
Bağla Başını Türkmanı
Tanısın PKK’lı Salih Seni
Bu insan düşmanı kişinin, MOSSAD (İsrail İstihbarat Örgütü) tarafından eğitildiği bilinmektedir.
PKK’lı Salih’in tek görevi vardır: Irak Türklerini yıldırmak, sindirmek ve psikolojik baskı altında tutmaktır. Türkmenlere eziyet etmek için PKK’li Salih’e sınırsız yetki verilmiştir. Dohuk, Zaho ve Türkiye’ye giden bütün araba ve otobüs şoförlerini korkutup tehdit etmektedir. Bu şoförlerin bazıları Türkmenler hakkında PKK’lı Salih’e bilgi aktarmaktadırlar; Aluka kontrol noktasından geçmeyen şoförlerin ise ehliyetlerine el koyup trafiğe çıkmalarını engellemektedir. Türkmenler, şoförlere başka bir yoldan geçmelerini istediklerinde şoförler, PKK’lı Salih’e uğramaları gerektiğini söylemektedirler, yani, anlayacağınız, PKK’lı Salih’in gazabından korkmaktadırlar.
PKK’lı Salih’in sorgu odasının kapısı önünde yüzlerce Türkmen beklemektedir. Kadın, erkek, yaşlı, genç, çocuk, soğukta, sıcakta, yağmurda ve karda- hiç fark etmez. Türkmenler, açık alanda, sorgu odasının kapısı önünde sorgulanma sırasını beklerler; sıranın gelmesi saatler sürmektedir. Sorgulanmaya alınanlara üst aramasını PKK’lı Salih kendi yapmaktadır. Kimlik, pasaport fotokopisini ister, yoksa, fotokopiyi kendi çeker. Adres ve telefon numaralarını, cep telefonundaki numaralar ve hafıza kartını tek tek inceler, kim bunlar, diye sorar? Bu kişiler hakkında bilgi ister, niçin ve nereye gidildiğini, gidilen yerin adresi ve telefon numarasını da alır.
CD veya CD’ler varsa bu CD’ler tek tek incelenir. Öğrenci ise hangi üniversite ve bölümde okuduğu sorulur, öğrencinin notları ve adresi istenir, çantası didik didik aranır. Nasıl geçindiği, burs alıp almadığını bilmek ister. Hele Türkiye’de öğrenciyse Allah o öğrencinin yardımcısı olsun; çünkü bütün suçlamalar,iftiralar ve tehditler kendisine yöneltilir. Bulduğu en ufak şeyden sorgulamayı genişletir, örneğin, küçük bir kağıt, not, yazı, gazete kupürü, kitap, dergi ve fotoğraf bulduğunda Peşmergeleri çağırarak o kişiyi tutuklattırır. Tutuklanan kişi günlerce işkence ve psikolojik baskıdan geçirilir. Bazen de Türkmenleri kontrolden geçirmeyip geri göndererek, geçişlerine izin verdirmez. Geri gönderilenler diğer kontrol noktasında Peşmergeler tarafından tutuklanıp hapse atılır. Sizce İsrail’e girmek bundan daha kolay değil midir? İnsanın aklına şu soru gelir: neden sadece Türkmenler bu insanlık dışı yöntemle sorgulanmaktadır? Bir suç mu işlediler? Başkaları gibi devlete silah mı çektiler? Devleti yağmalayıp talan mı ettiler? Ülkeleri Irak’a ihanet edip de ülkelerini mi sattılar? Hayır. Türkmenlere bu kin, nefret, eziyet, işkence ve haksızlık nedendir? Diktatör ve totaliter ülkelerde bunlar yapılır, ama hani Irak’a demokrasi ve özgürlük gelmişti!. Irak’lı Kürtlerin yorumuna göre demokrasi ve özgürlük sözcüklerinin anlamı baskı, zulüm, işkence ve diğerlerine yaşama hakkı tanımamaktır.
Irak Türkleri tüm dünyaya sesleniyor: O masum gördüğünüz Irak’lı Kürtler, biz Türkmenlere kendi yurdumuzda yaşama hakkı tanımıyor!Dün merhamet dilenenler,bugün barbar olmuşlar.Yani Saddam’a rahmet okutuyorlar.
Irak Türklerine yapılan bu baskı,zulüm,işkence ve haksızlıkları uluslararası platform ve insan hakları kuruluşlarına taşımalıyız.Parti ve sivil kuruluşlarımız bu olaylara sessiz kalmamalıdır.
Tabi ki birlikte bu olayların üzerine gitmeliyiz. Irak kurulduğundan beri Irak Türklerinin yüzü gülmemiştir. 35 senelik Saddam baskısından kurtuldular, derken, aynı baskıya Kürtler tarafından maruz kalmaktalar!Aluka kontrol noktası, Simel (Simele, Sumayyil) kasabasına çok yakındır. Simel Donuk’a bağlıdır, şehrin batısında ve şehir merkezine 16 km uzaklıktadır. Aynı zaman da Simel Zaho’ya götüren uluslar arası yol üzerindedir. Simel, Asurilerin yoğun yaşadığı bir kasabadır. Ağustos 1933’te Simel’de, Asurilere Kürtler tarafından büyük bir katliam yapıldı, yüzlerce Asuri hunharca öldürüldü ve tarihe de “SİMEL KATLİAMI” olarak geçti. Bu katliamı Kürt General Bekir SITKI ve taraftarı yapmıştı.
The Lethbridge Herald,August 18, 1933
Alberta/Kanada18 Ağustos 1933
Tarihli Kanada’da Yayınlanan Lethbridge Herald Gazetesinin Kürtler tarafından Asurilere Yapılan Katliamı Kaleme Aldığı Yazısı
Temmuz 1959’da Irak Türklerine de Kürtler tarafından bu katliamın aynısı yapılmıştı. 3 gün 3 gece Türkmenler vahşice öldürüldü ve bu olay, tarihe “KERKÜK KATLİAMI” adıyla geçti. Kadere bakın: Katliamın yapıldığı yolun kenarında (Simel) Irak Türkleri baskı, zulüm, işkence ve tutuklamalara maruz kalmakta ve bu durum karşısında, ne yazık ki, kimsenin kılı bile kıpırdamamaktadır. Galiba Irak Türkleri insan sayılmamaktadır.
http://bizturkmeniz.com/tr/index.htm
samedi 27 juin 2009
Video: Depleted Uranium Children Iraq
Conflicting Truth
Posted on Uruknet:
www.uruknet.info?p=55510
June 26, 2009
There is widespread contamination with cancer-causing depleted uranium munitions in Afghanistan and Iraq causing dramatically rising birth deformities. This video was censored on you tube...Lets see how long it will stay up this time...
Posted on Uruknet:
www.uruknet.info?p=55510
June 26, 2009
There is widespread contamination with cancer-causing depleted uranium munitions in Afghanistan and Iraq causing dramatically rising birth deformities. This video was censored on you tube...Lets see how long it will stay up this time...
vendredi 26 juin 2009
This week in the European Union
ELITSA VUCHEVA
Today @ 17:25 CET
EUOBSERVER / WEEKLY AGENDA (29 June - 6 July) - This week, Sweden takes over the rotating EU presidency from the Czech Republic for six months. Meanwhile, the German Constitutional Court is to announce its verdict on whether the Lisbon Treaty is compatible with German law.
The Swedish EU presidency will start on Wednesday (1 July) and last until 31 December. The full European Commission is to travel to Stockholm to meet with the Swedish government for the occasion.
Sweden will take over the EU presidency from the Czech Republic on 1 July (Photo: Swedish government website)
Stockholm has already indicated it expects a "difficult" six-month term, notably due to institutional uncertainties in the EU.
The newly elected European Parliament is still taking shape, while it is not yet clear whether it will vote later in July to support Jose Manuel Barroso as European Commission president for a second time.
Sweden would prefer to see Mr Barroso re-appointed so that it has a clear and strong working partner in the commission from mid-July, rather than having to wait until some time in the autumn.
But disagreements among political parties in the parliament make it unclear whether the issue will be put to vote in mid-July. Talks with the Swedish presidency on this are to continue on 6 July.
Adding to the institutional imbroglio is the question mark still hanging over the EU's Lisbon Treaty with four member states not having completed ratification of the document yet. Ireland is to vote for a second time, probably on 2 October.
Meanwhile, the German Constitutional Court is to rule on Tuesday (30 June) on whether the treaty is in line with German law.
Besides Ireland and Germany, Poland and the Czech Republic are the two other member states where ratification of the document has yet to be finalised.
Turkey to open taxation chapter
On the last day of the Czech EU presidency, 30 June, the EU will hold an accession conference with EU candidate Turkey where a new chapter, on taxation, of Ankara's accession negotiations is expected to be opened.
Turkey has been an official EU candidate since 1999 and began accession negotiations with the bloc in October 2005. If opened, the taxation chapter will be the 11th of Turkey's 35-chapter accession package to be opened so far, with just one successfully closed.
http://euobserver.com/9/28379?print=1
Today @ 17:25 CET
EUOBSERVER / WEEKLY AGENDA (29 June - 6 July) - This week, Sweden takes over the rotating EU presidency from the Czech Republic for six months. Meanwhile, the German Constitutional Court is to announce its verdict on whether the Lisbon Treaty is compatible with German law.
The Swedish EU presidency will start on Wednesday (1 July) and last until 31 December. The full European Commission is to travel to Stockholm to meet with the Swedish government for the occasion.
Sweden will take over the EU presidency from the Czech Republic on 1 July (Photo: Swedish government website)
Stockholm has already indicated it expects a "difficult" six-month term, notably due to institutional uncertainties in the EU.
The newly elected European Parliament is still taking shape, while it is not yet clear whether it will vote later in July to support Jose Manuel Barroso as European Commission president for a second time.
Sweden would prefer to see Mr Barroso re-appointed so that it has a clear and strong working partner in the commission from mid-July, rather than having to wait until some time in the autumn.
But disagreements among political parties in the parliament make it unclear whether the issue will be put to vote in mid-July. Talks with the Swedish presidency on this are to continue on 6 July.
Adding to the institutional imbroglio is the question mark still hanging over the EU's Lisbon Treaty with four member states not having completed ratification of the document yet. Ireland is to vote for a second time, probably on 2 October.
Meanwhile, the German Constitutional Court is to rule on Tuesday (30 June) on whether the treaty is in line with German law.
Besides Ireland and Germany, Poland and the Czech Republic are the two other member states where ratification of the document has yet to be finalised.
Turkey to open taxation chapter
On the last day of the Czech EU presidency, 30 June, the EU will hold an accession conference with EU candidate Turkey where a new chapter, on taxation, of Ankara's accession negotiations is expected to be opened.
Turkey has been an official EU candidate since 1999 and began accession negotiations with the bloc in October 2005. If opened, the taxation chapter will be the 11th of Turkey's 35-chapter accession package to be opened so far, with just one successfully closed.
http://euobserver.com/9/28379?print=1
Painting about the loss of Kerkuk Kalaa, by Iraqi Turkmen artist Lahib Jaddo
Click on picture to enlarge
"Two Ghosts"
Painting by Iraqi Turkmen artist LAHIB JADDO
about the loss of Kerkuk Kalaa and the loss of her mother Nejiba Sabir (a daughter of Kerkuk)
for more on Lahib Jaddo and her work please see:
http://turkmenfriendship.blogspot.com/2008/12/art-of-lahib-jaddo.html
http://turkmenfriendship.blogspot.com/2007/07/lahib-jaddo-iraqi-turkmen-artist.html
http://turkmenfriendship.blogspot.com/2008/12/mbarek-kurban-bayramnz-hayrl-olsun.html
http://www.alturkmani.com/makalaat/09042006/1.htm
http://www.lahibjaddo.com/paintings.html
jeudi 25 juin 2009
Remembering Layla Al-Attar
A FORGOTTEN "DAY OF INFAMY"
Malcom Lagauche
Malcom Lagauche
June 24, 2009Many countries have one or two days a year that indicate a national tragedy. In the U.S., December 7, 1941, the day the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor, is labeled a "day of infamy." Almost 60 years later, September 11, 2001 surpassed December 7 as a rallying cry for U.S. solidarity.
Iraq, a country much smaller than the U.S., and never as large a player on the international scene, can claim several days of infamy: January 17, 1991 (the beginning of Desert Storm); February 14, 1991 (the destruction of the Amiryah Bomb Shelter); March 20, 2003 (the start of the U.S. illegal invasion and occupation of Iraq); and April 9, 2003, (U.S. forces enter Baghdad) among others. But, one date that gains little international attention is imbedded in the hearts and minds of most Iraqis: June 26, 1993.
On that date, the U.S. military, under the command of Bill Clinton, ordered 23 Tomahawk guided missiles to demolish the headquarters of the Mukhabarat, the Iraqi intelligence services, in central Baghdad. Twenty of the missiles hit the agency complex, while "only" three missed their targets.
A jubilant Clinton took to the airwaves and proclaimed victory. He was happy that only three missed their mark. One could think he was addressing the public about the score of a sporting event.
Of the three that missed, one destroyed the home of Layla al-Attar, killing her and her husband, and blinding her daughter.
Layla al-Attar was the director of the Iraqi National Art Museum and a leading Arab artist who was revered in Iraq much the same as Norman Rockwell was in the U.S. In addition, she was a spokesperson for international peace, for the inner peace of women, and for resistance against U.S. hegemony. Layla al-Attar symbolized Iraq.
When news of al-Attar’s death broke, Iraq mourned. A special person who transcended political ideology and represented all of humankind had been assassinated.
During the Gulf War, her home was almost totally destroyed by U.S. missiles. Two years later, shortly after the completion of the house’s reconstruction, an "errant" missile finished the job that its cousin had only partially performed in earlier years.
Although never proven, it is quite easy to give credence to the theory that Layla al-Attar was the target of a missile, not merely a casualty of "collateral damage" from a misguided projectile. Every Iraqi believes she was marked, but shortly after her execution, the rest of the world forgot.
Outside the Arab world, Layla al-Attar was on the verge of becoming a top international artist. European art galleries were beginning to highlight her work. In the U.S., however, she was little known. Little international outrage was heard when she was killed.
mardi 23 juin 2009
Union of the Diaspora Turkmens: A Call to the Free People of the World
A CALL TO THE FREE PEOPLE OF THE WORLD
UNION OF THE DIASPORA TURKMENS (UDT)
There has been another vicious attack on the peaceful Turkmen people of Iraq.
On Saturday June 20th, 2009 at noon, a truck bomb exploded in the busiest centre of the town of Taze Khurmatu , 15 km south-west of Kerkuk, killing 75,wounding over 200 innocent people and destroying the entire neighbourhood.
This has been the latest in the chain of terrorist attacks against the Turkmens in Iraq ; it follows the attacks against them in Telafer, Kerkuk, Tuz Khurmatu, Amirli, Yengije, etc...
These terrorist attacks are particularly vicious as they are directed against the peaceful, unarmed and unprotected Turkmen community of Iraq.
The Iraqi authorities with their local police and security forces have failed to stop these attacks in the past and the recent terrorist attack in Taze Khurmatu shows once again that they are either unable or unwilling to ensure adequate protection for the Turkmens.
We ask them to encourage and allow the Turkmens to form their own local law enforcement units, and provide them with financial support and proper training. We in the Union of the Diaspora Turkmens (UDT) ask the free peoples and all the human rights organizations of the world to help us by putting pressure from their side upon the Iraqi authorities to grant the Turkmens their right to defend themselves and form law enforcement units of each locality from the local Turkmens.
The Iraqi authorities with their local police and security forces have failed to stop these attacks in the past and the recent terrorist attack in Taze Khurmatu shows once again that they are either unable or unwilling to ensure adequate protection for the Turkmens.
The Turkmens represent Iraq’s third largest ethnic group and despite the fact that they constitute a main ethnic community in Iraq alongside the Arabs and the Kurds, they continue to be discriminated as they remain the only ethnic group without any means of self-defence or community protection, because the central and local Iraqi authorities deny them the right to possess weapons and to organize their own self-defence and the protection of their community.
We are asking the Iraqi authorities: the President of the Republic, Mr. Talabani, the Prime Minister, Mr. Maliki, the Members of the Iraqi Parliament and the Presidents of all political parties, to revise their policy concerning the security in the Turkmen region.
We ask them to encourage and allow the Turkmens to form their own local law enforcement units, and provide them with financial support and proper training. We in the Union of the Diaspora Turkmens (UDT) ask the free peoples and all the human rights organizations of the world to help us by putting pressure from their side upon the Iraqi authorities to grant the Turkmens their right to defend themselves and form law enforcement units of each locality from the local Turkmens.
Otherwise these tragedies and the human suffering of the Turkmens will continue.
UNION OF THE DIASPORA TURKMENS (UDT)
Tezexurmatı Saldırısı we Dersler
Burhan Bayatlı
Bu yazını qaleme alandam Tezexurmatı nahiyesinde bomba dolu araçla gerçekleştirilen qanlı saldırıda hayatını itiren Türkmanların sayısı 73’e, yaralılarında 250’ye ulaşıptı. 50 ew we iş yeri xarabaya döndüptü. Kerkük’ün 10 Km cünubıne düşen bu şirin qasaba xaxı, hem cigerleri yandı hemde ewleri başlarına yıxıldı. Tek günahları himayesiz Türkman olmalarıdı, başqa bir şey yoxtu. Gorbegor giden Saddamın döneminde idam sehpalarına çıxan, zindanlarda yatan, işgence gören we yer yurdunnan sürülen bu sahpsiz millet, sözde Yengi İraq’ta, degi tek tek ölmeğ katliamlara mu´araz olıllar. Bu insalığ suçunu işliyen eller, Hüseyniye’ni hedef almağtan, Türkman içine nifaq toxumunu ekmeğ için pis emellerine ulaşmağ istiller. Faqat heyhat !! bu alçağ toplu cinayetin arxasında olan O, watanını satan xayınlar, muhaqaq xüsrana uğrallar. Türkmanlar hiç bir zaman messep sawaşı yapmaz. Baxın zamanlamaya ! Amerika askerlerin şerhirlerden çekileceği bir dönemde , Türkman tarafların bir araya gelmeleri bir merhalede, Türkmanlara gözdağı wermeğ istiller. Hey talihsiz ve tarixsiz beçaralar, 90 il sindirme sistemine ma´aruz qalan, her türlü eziyyet we basqının eng amnsızını gören, ona rağmen erimiyen bu asil millet, sizuw kimin çapulculara hayatta aldanıpta yem olmaz. Bozuğ inanç we ırkçılığtan gelirsewüz Yırtığ Torbadan Aw Tutusuz .. Çünkü Sünnü Türkman Şi´i qeder Si´idi, Şi´i Türkman’da Sünnü qeder Sünnüdü.. bune bele biline.
İndi geleğin bizim siyaset sehnesinde işten fazla hakat eden zewatlarımıza. Dünen Telafer, Qereteppe we Amirlide, bugün Tezexurmatıda bu faci´anı gördüğ. Tedbirlerıwüzı almazsawuz , yarında qere günü yaşamamağıwuzdan ne ma´alum? İbret we derslerden daha neçe denesine ihtiyacıwuz war? Baxın begler: yapacağıwuz ilk iş, hamsıwuz bir araya gelip Türkman Müdafa2a Kuwwatları’nın teşkiline prensipte anlaşıp merkezi hükümetten resmileşmesini sağlayacağsız.Türkman bölgelerini Türkmanlar tarafından himaye edilmesini taleb edeceğsiz, we bu talebi yerine getirilene qeder,her zamanda we her mahfilde ağrlığıwuzu qoyacağsız. Bu taleb munaqaşeye tabii tutulmaz. Bu taleb bütün Türkmanların talebidir. Sizlerden herhaxsıwuz bu talebe qarşı gelirse, Türkman kömnegini soysun başqa bir kisweyden siyaset yapsın !!
Türkmeneli’de Tezexurmatı şehdleri için 3 gün yas tutulurken, Toronto’daki "Türkmen Evi", taziye tertib etmeşti. Her tarafa mail gönderilip Türkman sitelerinde yayımlanmasına rağmen insanlarımızın bu merasime keyidsiz qalmaları , doğrusu acayibime getti. Ta´ziyede toputopuna 25 nefer warıydı.! bunun 5’i Türkiye ve Azerbaycan soydaşlarımız olmağ üzere 20 nefer Türkmanlardan hazır bulunurdu. İçlerinde,150 Km qatı’eden war onlara şapqamı qaldırram..!! Ta´ziyeye getmeğ wefatin elim tarafını degiştirmez we xefifletmez . Newar ki, wefat edene sayğı göstermeğti we yaxunlarının üzüntüsünü paylaşmağtı. Hele şehitlere, asğari bir sadaqet delalesidir, yerine getirmeğ boynumuzun borcudur ağalar !! gelmiyenler dostlarım qınamasınlar meni. Men onları safın dışında tutmuram.. Haşaa.. onlarda eng az menim qeder Türkmandılar..2 sene ewwel , Amirli Ta´ziyesini tertib eden we xariçteki Türkman bağışlarının en büyük miqdarını te´min edip, O mazlum qasabaya yollıyan arxadaşlarımız neyçin bugün yoxıydılar? yox wallah gidersem filanı gorrem !! fistikan getse men getmem !! Hazaman bu tabi´attan wazgeçileceğ? Liderlerin birleşmemesinden derd ediriğ özümüzde birbirimizi begenmiriğ gruplaşmaya (parçalanmaya) dewam ediriğ !!!
Şahxsi ixtilaflarımız, Milli görewlerin xaricinde tutmalıyığ… Bigane qalmağ bize yaqışmaz gözlerim. sürç-i lisan eylediysem, aff´ola. Faqat, Çuwaldızı ayrısına soxmadan, igneni özümüze batırağın. Bele degi dostlar?
22.Haziran. 2009Toronto / Kanada
http://kerkukmedya.com/articles.php?action=view&id=401&page=1
http://kerkukmedya.com/articles.php?action=view&id=401&page=1
Turkish PM says PKK still finds supporters in Europe
www.chinaview.cn
2009-06-22
ANKARA, June 22 (Xinhua) -- Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Monday that the outlawed Kurdish Workers' Party (PKK) can still find supporters in Europe.
Speaking at a luncheon with ambassadors of European Union (EU) member states to Turkey, Erdogan said "the terrorist organization PKK, which has the opportunity to exist and live in the north of Iraq, can still find supporters in some European countries."
Erdogan said that Turkey was facing threats of terrorist attacks that had international dimensions.
"Despite all our warnings, we cannot get the support we are expecting from some countries to cut the financial sources of the terrorist organization, to provide no grounds for terrorist propaganda, and to extradite the assailants," Erdogan said.
Erdogan said terrorism was also globalizing and those who were remaining indifferent to a terrorist organization today should not ignore the possibility that this terrorism might hit them one day.
"We hope Europe will take joint action and assume a common attitude against terrorism," he said.
Turkish security forces have conducted frequent operations against PKK militants in eastern and southeastern Turkey.
The PKK took up arms in 1984 to create an ethnic homeland in southeastern Turkey. So far, some 40,000 people have been killed in the past two-decade conflicts.
Turkey's military forces have taken tougher actions against the PKK after the country's legislature extended the government's mandate to launch cross-border operations against the rebels in northern Iraq.
Editor: Mu Xuequan
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2009-06/22/content_11583665.htm
2009-06-22
ANKARA, June 22 (Xinhua) -- Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Monday that the outlawed Kurdish Workers' Party (PKK) can still find supporters in Europe.
Speaking at a luncheon with ambassadors of European Union (EU) member states to Turkey, Erdogan said "the terrorist organization PKK, which has the opportunity to exist and live in the north of Iraq, can still find supporters in some European countries."
Erdogan said that Turkey was facing threats of terrorist attacks that had international dimensions.
"Despite all our warnings, we cannot get the support we are expecting from some countries to cut the financial sources of the terrorist organization, to provide no grounds for terrorist propaganda, and to extradite the assailants," Erdogan said.
Erdogan said terrorism was also globalizing and those who were remaining indifferent to a terrorist organization today should not ignore the possibility that this terrorism might hit them one day.
"We hope Europe will take joint action and assume a common attitude against terrorism," he said.
Turkish security forces have conducted frequent operations against PKK militants in eastern and southeastern Turkey.
The PKK took up arms in 1984 to create an ethnic homeland in southeastern Turkey. So far, some 40,000 people have been killed in the past two-decade conflicts.
Turkey's military forces have taken tougher actions against the PKK after the country's legislature extended the government's mandate to launch cross-border operations against the rebels in northern Iraq.
Editor: Mu Xuequan
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2009-06/22/content_11583665.htm
lundi 22 juin 2009
Vicious attack on Iraq's Turkmen community in TAZE HURMATU (videos)
videos
Of the Bomb Attack on the Iraqi Turkmen Town of Taze Hurmatu
Of the Bomb Attack on the Iraqi Turkmen Town of Taze Hurmatu
http://www.eskitisin.com/ahbar/taze.htm
please click on the link above
مناشدة لرئيس الوزراء نوري المالكي إعلان ناحية تازة التركمانية منطقة منكوبة وإيصال الإمدادات إليها
dimanche 21 juin 2009
KANIMIZ AKSADA TÜRKMENİZ
Irak bize o kadar yakın ki..3.5 milyon Türkmenin yanı sıra nüfusunun tamamına yakını Müslüman ve gözü kulağı Türkiye de olan bir ülke. Irak’ta petrol zenginliği nedeniyle Kürt grublar tarafından tartışmalı bölge yapılmak istenen Kerkük yakınlarındaki Türkmen kasabası Taze Hurmatu’da bomba yüklü bir kamyonun patlaması sonucu yetkililere göre 63, Irak Türkmen Cephesi’ne (ITC) göre ise en az 80 kişi öldü.
Yetkililer, dün öğle namazının ardından Şiiler’in Resul El Azam Camii’nden çıktıkları sırada düzenlenen saldırıda yaralı sayısının da 200 olduğunu, bildirdi. ITC Türkiye Temsilcisi Sadun Köprülü yaptığı açıklamada: "İntihar saldırısı olduğu kesin. Ancak kimler tarafından yapıldığını bilmemiz mümkün değil. Kerkük’ün güvenliğinin peşmergelere bağlanmak istemesi nedeniyle 15 gün önce, Taze Hurmatu’da Türkmenler büyük bir protesto gösterisi yapmıştı. Bazı kesimlerin çok büyük provokasyonu ile karşı karşıyayız."dedi.
Türkmeneli olarak adlandırılan bölge Mendili'den Kerkük’e Telafere Altunköprüye Hatta Bağdat a kadar buram buram Türk diyarı bu topraklar. Savaşlar,bombalarla ve intihar saldırılarıyla anılan bu coğrafya da ölüm en çok Türkmenlere yakın olmuş. Hangi iktidar yönetime gelirse gelsin katliamlar,idamlar ve baskılar Türkmenlerin üzerinden eksilmemiş.
Bir toplantıda Türkmen aydınlarına sizin neden Bir Denktaş’ınız yok diye bir soru sormuştum. Cevap gerçekten düşündürücü ‘’BİZDE BİRÇOK DENKTAŞ VARDI. HEPSİNİ ASTILAR.’’
Irak ta yaklaşan Nüfus sayımında Kürt gruplar Türkmenlere baskı kurarak sayılarını az gösterip bölgesel hâkimiyetlerini haksız şekilde Türkemeneline de yaymak derdindeler. Çünkü Türkmenler petrol zenginliğinin üstünde yaşıyorlar. Türkiye ne kadar komşularıyla iyi ilişkiler çizgisinde bir dış siyaset yürütse de peşmergeler aynı iyi niyet konumunda değiller.
ARTIK IRAK’TA SAYILAR KONUŞUYOR
Nüfus sayımının yaklaşmasıyla katılım konusu ön plana çıktı. Sayım hazırlıkları şu anada yetersiz olsada görünen o ki Eylül 2009 da yapılacak. Türkmenelinde kadınların ve Irak dışındaki Türkmenlerin sayıma katılımı çok önemli. Taze Hurmatu son patlama gibi olaylarla bu katılımı düşürmeye yönelik bir oyun oynanmaya devam ediyor. Verilmek istenen mesaj gayet açık. Türkmen bölgesi güvenli değil.
IRAK TÜRKMENLERİ TEK YÜREK
Türkmen siyasi hareketleri nüfus sayımın ertelenmesi için tek yumruk olmuş durumda. Çünkü sağlıklı bir alt yapı yok şu anda. Yapılacak sayım peşmerge baskısı altında olacak ve sağlıklı bir sonuç vermeyecek. Hem Irak’taki hem de Türkiye’deki Türkmenler güvenlik sağlanana kadar nüfus sayımının ertelenmesi tezini savunuyorlar. Zaten BM bu yöndeki raporlarıda bu tezi savunuyor.
TÜRKMENLERİN YARADANA BİR CAN BORCU VAR
ITC Lideri Dr.Saadettin Ergeç Irak’taki en güçlü Türkmen Haraketinin başkanı.Tüm Irakta yaşananlara cevapı net’’Biz Irak’ın toprak bütünlüğünden yanayız.Bu vatanın asli unsuru ve ev sahibiyiz.Her Türkmen gün geldiğinde vatanı uğruna canını seve seve verecektir.Allahımıza bir can borcumuz var ve zamanı geldiğinde vermekten çekinmeyiz.’’
Belki adı Irak..Belki magazin ve güncel konulardan hatırlanmayan bir Türkmeneli var.Ve yükselen ses ‘’ACILAR İÇİNDEYİZ NERDESİN CAN GARDAŞ.
GÜNGÖR YAVUZASLAN
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Turkey Condemns Attack in Taze Hurmatu
Sunday, 21 June 2009
Turkey's Ministry of Foreign Affairs condemned the bomb attack in Taze Hurmatu town of Iraq.
Releasing a statement, the Ministry expressed profound sorrow over killing of a number of people in the attack near Kerkuk. "Turkey attaches great importance to efforts to ensure peace and stability in Iraq, and to provide a peaceful atmosphere among different ethnic and religious groups in Kerkuk. We strongly condemn this heinous attack, one of the most serious attacks against Turkmen society in Iraq," it said.
"We want to reiterate once again that Turkey is opposed to all kinds of terrorism and that Turkish people commiserate with Iraqi people who lost their beloved ones in the attack. We are ready to bring in those who were injured in the attack for medical treatment. We are taking all kinds of measures including dispatch of an ambulance helicopter to Iraq," it added.
More than 60 people were killed and nearly 200 others were injured when a truck laden with explosives exploded as worshippers left a Shiite mosque in Taza, 20 kilometers south of Kerkuk.
Sunday, 21 June 2009
Turkey's Ministry of Foreign Affairs condemned the bomb attack in Taze Hurmatu town of Iraq.
Releasing a statement, the Ministry expressed profound sorrow over killing of a number of people in the attack near Kerkuk. "Turkey attaches great importance to efforts to ensure peace and stability in Iraq, and to provide a peaceful atmosphere among different ethnic and religious groups in Kerkuk. We strongly condemn this heinous attack, one of the most serious attacks against Turkmen society in Iraq," it said.
"We want to reiterate once again that Turkey is opposed to all kinds of terrorism and that Turkish people commiserate with Iraqi people who lost their beloved ones in the attack. We are ready to bring in those who were injured in the attack for medical treatment. We are taking all kinds of measures including dispatch of an ambulance helicopter to Iraq," it added.
More than 60 people were killed and nearly 200 others were injured when a truck laden with explosives exploded as worshippers left a Shiite mosque in Taza, 20 kilometers south of Kerkuk.
Sunday, 21 June 2009
samedi 20 juin 2009
Türkiye Cumhuriyeti Dışişleri Bakanlığı
Türkiye Cumhuriyeti Dışişleri Bakanlığı
http://www.mfa.gov.tr/no_100_-20-haziran-2009_-irak_ta-meydana-gelen-terorist-saldiri-hk__.tr.mfa
No:100, 20 Haziran 2009, Irak'ta Meydana Gelen Terörist Saldırı Hk.
http://www.mfa.gov.tr/no_100_-20-haziran-2009_-irak_ta-meydana-gelen-terorist-saldiri-hk__.tr.mfa
No:100, 20 Haziran 2009, Irak'ta Meydana Gelen Terörist Saldırı Hk.
Explosion dans la ville turkmène de Taza Hurmatu - Cui bono?
Attentat devant une mosquée dans la ville turkmène de Taza Hurmatu, située dans la province de Kirkouk.
Il y a 55 morts et 170 blessés, selon un nouveau bilan de la police
20 juin 2009
L'explosion s’est produite juste après midi, peu après la prière de la mi-journée, alors que les fidèles quittaient la mosquée dans la ville de Taza Hurmatu. La mosquée et huit habitations voisines ont été soufflées par l’explosion.
Les habitants du quartier se sont joints aux sauveteurs pour tenter de dégager, souvent à mains nues, les personnes prises sous les décombres.
Une enquête a été ouverte pour savoir si le camion piégé était conduit par un kamikaze ou s’il était stationné avec une explosion commandée à distance, a précisé le général Jamal Tahir, chef de la police à Kirkouk.
La télévision TURKMENELI TV s’est immédiatement rendue sur la scène de l’attentat. Le Dr. Sadettin Ergeç, Président du Front Turkmène irakien a fait une déclaration, s’adressant au premier ministre irakien et aux responsables du gouvernement irakien il leur a demandé d’assurer la protection des Turkmènes qui sont la cible de groupes armés car ce n’est pas la première fois que les Turkmènes sont victimes d’attentats à la bombe, il a rappelé les attentats dans les villes turkmènes d’Amirli, de Tuz Hurmatu, de Telafer, de Kirkouk, etc.
Soit les responsables du gouvernement assurent la protection des Turkmènes qui n’ont pas de milices armées, soit ils doivent leur donner les moyens d’assurer leur propre défense.
Il y a 55 morts et 170 blessés, selon un nouveau bilan de la police
20 juin 2009
L'explosion s’est produite juste après midi, peu après la prière de la mi-journée, alors que les fidèles quittaient la mosquée dans la ville de Taza Hurmatu. La mosquée et huit habitations voisines ont été soufflées par l’explosion.
Les habitants du quartier se sont joints aux sauveteurs pour tenter de dégager, souvent à mains nues, les personnes prises sous les décombres.
Une enquête a été ouverte pour savoir si le camion piégé était conduit par un kamikaze ou s’il était stationné avec une explosion commandée à distance, a précisé le général Jamal Tahir, chef de la police à Kirkouk.
La télévision TURKMENELI TV s’est immédiatement rendue sur la scène de l’attentat. Le Dr. Sadettin Ergeç, Président du Front Turkmène irakien a fait une déclaration, s’adressant au premier ministre irakien et aux responsables du gouvernement irakien il leur a demandé d’assurer la protection des Turkmènes qui sont la cible de groupes armés car ce n’est pas la première fois que les Turkmènes sont victimes d’attentats à la bombe, il a rappelé les attentats dans les villes turkmènes d’Amirli, de Tuz Hurmatu, de Telafer, de Kirkouk, etc.
Soit les responsables du gouvernement assurent la protection des Turkmènes qui n’ont pas de milices armées, soit ils doivent leur donner les moyens d’assurer leur propre défense.
BIASED BBC HAS GOT IT WRONG AGAIN!!
BBC’s misleading reporting of the bomb explosion in Taza Hurmatu:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/8110807.stm
CORRECTIONS :
1) The attack took place in the Turkmen city of TAZA HURMATU, which is situated in KERKUK province.
2) The Turkmens are not a minority in TAZA HURMATU they are the majority, in fact TAZA HURMATU is exclusively inhabited by Turkmens.
3) Turkmens are NOT a minority in Iraq!
The Turkmens are Iraq’s third main community and the North of Iraq’s second main community.
When will you get it right????
It’s always been a British habit to diminish the Turkmens’ presence in Iraq for “geopolitical and economical reasons” but enough is enough.
Your bias makes me sick!
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/8110807.stm
CORRECTIONS :
1) The attack took place in the Turkmen city of TAZA HURMATU, which is situated in KERKUK province.
2) The Turkmens are not a minority in TAZA HURMATU they are the majority, in fact TAZA HURMATU is exclusively inhabited by Turkmens.
3) Turkmens are NOT a minority in Iraq!
The Turkmens are Iraq’s third main community and the North of Iraq’s second main community.
When will you get it right????
It’s always been a British habit to diminish the Turkmens’ presence in Iraq for “geopolitical and economical reasons” but enough is enough.
Your bias makes me sick!
BOMB EXPLOSION IN THE TURKMEN CITY OF TAZA HURMATU
TURKMENS TARGETED IN TAZA HURMATU
June 20, 2009
A bomb which was placed in a truck exploded outside a mosque in TAZA HURMATU earlier today, causing many victims and injuring over 120 people.
Dr. Sadettin Ergeç, President of the Iraqi Turkmen Front, has appeared on Turkmeneli TV, he said that it is not the first time that Turkmens are targeted, there have been bomb explosions in Taza Khurmatu before, also in Telafer, Amirli, Tuz Hurmatu, Kerkuk, etc.
Dr. Ergeç addressing the Iraqi Prime Minister and the Iraqi government authorities demanded that they either provide adequate protection for the Turkmens or that they give them the means to defend themselves.
It’s a scene of nightmare, people using their bare hands to search for victims under the rubble.
The wounded are taken to the nearby hospital, children are among the injured.
Doctors have launched and urgent appeal for people to come to the hospital to give some blood.
Turkmeneli TV live coverage:
ttp://turkmenelitv.com/v5/index.php?option=com_wrapper&Itemid=34
June 20, 2009
A bomb which was placed in a truck exploded outside a mosque in TAZA HURMATU earlier today, causing many victims and injuring over 120 people.
Dr. Sadettin Ergeç, President of the Iraqi Turkmen Front, has appeared on Turkmeneli TV, he said that it is not the first time that Turkmens are targeted, there have been bomb explosions in Taza Khurmatu before, also in Telafer, Amirli, Tuz Hurmatu, Kerkuk, etc.
Dr. Ergeç addressing the Iraqi Prime Minister and the Iraqi government authorities demanded that they either provide adequate protection for the Turkmens or that they give them the means to defend themselves.
It’s a scene of nightmare, people using their bare hands to search for victims under the rubble.
The wounded are taken to the nearby hospital, children are among the injured.
Doctors have launched and urgent appeal for people to come to the hospital to give some blood.
Turkmeneli TV live coverage:
ttp://turkmenelitv.com/v5/index.php?option=com_wrapper&Itemid=34
IRAQ BORN TEEN, MOHAMMED AL-TOUMAIMI, CRACKED A MATHS PUZZLE
Friday, May 29, 2009
http://iraqiscientists.blogspot.com/
A 16-year-old Iraqi immigrant living in Sweden has cracked a maths puzzle that has stumped experts for more than 300 years, Swedish media reported on Thursday.
In just four months, Mohamed Altoumaimi has found a formula to explain and simplify the so-called Bernoulli numbers, a sequence of calculations named after the 17th century Swiss mathematician Jacob Bernoulli, the Dagens Nyheter daily said.
Altoumaimi, who came to Sweden six years ago, said teachers at his high school in Falun, central Sweden were not convinced about his work at first."When I first showed it to my teachers, none of them thought the formula I had written down really worked," Altoumaimi told the Falu Kuriren newspaper.
He then got in touch with professors at Uppsala University, one of Sweden's top institutions, to ask them to check his work.
After going through his notebooks, the professors found his work was indeed correct and offered him a place in Uppsala.But for now, Altoumaimi is focusing on his school studies and plans to take summer classes in advanced mathematics and physics this year."
Iraq-born teen cracks maths puzzle, May 28, 2009
http://iraqiscientists.blogspot.com/
A 16-year-old Iraqi immigrant living in Sweden has cracked a maths puzzle that has stumped experts for more than 300 years, Swedish media reported on Thursday.
In just four months, Mohamed Altoumaimi has found a formula to explain and simplify the so-called Bernoulli numbers, a sequence of calculations named after the 17th century Swiss mathematician Jacob Bernoulli, the Dagens Nyheter daily said.
Altoumaimi, who came to Sweden six years ago, said teachers at his high school in Falun, central Sweden were not convinced about his work at first."When I first showed it to my teachers, none of them thought the formula I had written down really worked," Altoumaimi told the Falu Kuriren newspaper.
He then got in touch with professors at Uppsala University, one of Sweden's top institutions, to ask them to check his work.
After going through his notebooks, the professors found his work was indeed correct and offered him a place in Uppsala.But for now, Altoumaimi is focusing on his school studies and plans to take summer classes in advanced mathematics and physics this year."
Iraq-born teen cracks maths puzzle, May 28, 2009
jeudi 18 juin 2009
Some In Kerkuk Fear Kurds Will Replace U.S. Forces
Some In Kerkuk Fear Kurds Will Replace U.S. Forces
June 18, 2009
KERKUK, Iraq -- Turkoman and Arab politicians in the multiethnic Iraqi city of Kirkuk are concerned that Kurdish forces will fill the void after U.S. forces leave, RFE/RL's Radio Free Iraq reports.
June 18, 2009
KERKUK, Iraq -- Turkoman and Arab politicians in the multiethnic Iraqi city of Kirkuk are concerned that Kurdish forces will fill the void after U.S. forces leave, RFE/RL's Radio Free Iraq reports.
Ali Mahdi, a spokesman for the Turkoman bloc on the Kirkuk provincial council, said that when U.S. forces withdraw on June 30 "we want the government to replace them with Iraqi forces from the middle and south because Kirkuk's security forces are predominantly Kurdish."
Muhammad Khalil al-Juburi, a member of the provincial council's Arab bloc, said that most of the Arab fighters fighting Al-Qaeda as members of the Awakening Councils "are stationed outside the city of Kirkuk and until all ethnic groups are fairly represented in the city’s security agencies and administration, we propose that Iraqi forces replace U.S. troops."
But Layla Hassan, a member of the Kurdish bloc on the council, said the Turkoman and Arab concerns are "unfounded" and deploying Arab forces from the south would be "counterproductive." She added that "such a move would be unconstitutional as Kirkuk is recognized by all parties as a disputed area." U.S. forces have often been called on to mediate ethnic confrontations in the oil-rich region.
http://www.rferl.org/content/Some_In_Kirkuk_Fear_Kurds_Will_Replace_US_Forces/1757185.html
http://www.rferl.org/content/Some_In_Kirkuk_Fear_Kurds_Will_Replace_US_Forces/1757185.html
mardi 16 juin 2009
Türkmenoğlu Ve Petroloğulları
Türkmenoğlu Ve Petroloğulları
Bir süreden beri dillerde dolaşan 6 harfli bir kelime var (AÇILIM)….
Aslında anlamı güzel bir kelime ..Benim anladığıma göre yani kapalı kalmamak her keşle görüşmek sorunları çözmek kendi ve karşı tarafın menfaatini düşünmek…
Yüz yıllardır Irak` ta yaşayan Türkmenoğlu her türlü soykırım ve mezalimlere uğradı , kimler yaptı bu zumlu herkesçe malumdur, niye yapıldı da herkesçe bellidir ama hatırlatmakta fayda var ..Türk oldukları için ve Türkiye”yi sevdikleri için…
Bu 100 yılda hiç kimse bir açılım yapalım gerek duymadı ..Duymamak tada haklılar çünkü biz Türkmenler bunu hak etmedik…Hükümetlere karşı çıkmadık , Asker öldürmedik, çetelik yapmadık, yol kesmedik, vatanı böldürmek isteyenlere yardım etmedik. İyi vatandaş olduk..En önemlisi Babamızın sözünü tuttuk…Babamız hep dedi ben varken siz endişe etmeyen ..Bizde yedik içtik yattık babamız var dedik…
Sonradan farkına vardım meğer benim babam adı Türkmen …bende Türkmen oğluyum ve artık bu soyadların geçerlilik süresi bitmiştir hatta kullanması suç olmuştur , çünkü açılım yolunda engel olmaktadır...Ama bir sorun var Türkmenoğlularının topraklarında kara altın var ve açılım engelini aşmak için baba dedi ki ben bu oğulları parçalıyım hem kendi kendilerini yesinler hem de düşmanlarına kolay yem olsunlar akan kanla ve ellerinden alınan toprakları dartarak petrole çevirip, hem kedi teslim etmeyenlere hem de avrupaya iyi bir Açılım olsun…Vay Baba vay…
Son günlerde de iyi tanıdığımız bir soyadı Irak bekliyor ..Davut oğlu..Bağdat Basra ve Erbil e gidecekmiş..Türkmen oğullarını ve Kerkük nerde belki soracakmış, ve altı yıldır Türkmen oğlunu göz göre göre ezen petrol oğullarıyla toplanacakmış...
Türkmenoğluları der ki.
1.Türkmen hareketini ıslah etmeden
2.Altı yıldır gasp edilen haklarımı geri alıp ve hesabı sorulmadan. 3.Kerkük özel statü ya kavuşmadan…
Türkmen oğulları hakkınız helal etmeyecek….
Ali Mehdi
11.06.2009
Bir süreden beri dillerde dolaşan 6 harfli bir kelime var (AÇILIM)….
Aslında anlamı güzel bir kelime ..Benim anladığıma göre yani kapalı kalmamak her keşle görüşmek sorunları çözmek kendi ve karşı tarafın menfaatini düşünmek…
Yüz yıllardır Irak` ta yaşayan Türkmenoğlu her türlü soykırım ve mezalimlere uğradı , kimler yaptı bu zumlu herkesçe malumdur, niye yapıldı da herkesçe bellidir ama hatırlatmakta fayda var ..Türk oldukları için ve Türkiye”yi sevdikleri için…
Bu 100 yılda hiç kimse bir açılım yapalım gerek duymadı ..Duymamak tada haklılar çünkü biz Türkmenler bunu hak etmedik…Hükümetlere karşı çıkmadık , Asker öldürmedik, çetelik yapmadık, yol kesmedik, vatanı böldürmek isteyenlere yardım etmedik. İyi vatandaş olduk..En önemlisi Babamızın sözünü tuttuk…Babamız hep dedi ben varken siz endişe etmeyen ..Bizde yedik içtik yattık babamız var dedik…
Sonradan farkına vardım meğer benim babam adı Türkmen …bende Türkmen oğluyum ve artık bu soyadların geçerlilik süresi bitmiştir hatta kullanması suç olmuştur , çünkü açılım yolunda engel olmaktadır...Ama bir sorun var Türkmenoğlularının topraklarında kara altın var ve açılım engelini aşmak için baba dedi ki ben bu oğulları parçalıyım hem kendi kendilerini yesinler hem de düşmanlarına kolay yem olsunlar akan kanla ve ellerinden alınan toprakları dartarak petrole çevirip, hem kedi teslim etmeyenlere hem de avrupaya iyi bir Açılım olsun…Vay Baba vay…
Son günlerde de iyi tanıdığımız bir soyadı Irak bekliyor ..Davut oğlu..Bağdat Basra ve Erbil e gidecekmiş..Türkmen oğullarını ve Kerkük nerde belki soracakmış, ve altı yıldır Türkmen oğlunu göz göre göre ezen petrol oğullarıyla toplanacakmış...
Türkmenoğluları der ki.
1.Türkmen hareketini ıslah etmeden
2.Altı yıldır gasp edilen haklarımı geri alıp ve hesabı sorulmadan. 3.Kerkük özel statü ya kavuşmadan…
Türkmen oğulları hakkınız helal etmeyecek….
Ali Mehdi
11.06.2009
Skewed and in secret, this Iraq inquiry is a scandal
Jonathan Steele
We badly need to learn from the most important foreign policy decision of the last decade. This tissue won't help us
June 15, 2009
Gordon Brown's announcement of a secret inquiry into the runup to and conduct of Britain's invasion and occupation of Iraq (not the nouns he used, of course) is scandalous.
First, the manner of his decision. Just last week the prime minister committed himself to a new spirit of public accountability, cross-party consultation on electoral and parliamentary reform, as well as a greater and more independent role for backbenchers and select committees. Now he promptly goes against all that when it comes to looking into the most important foreign policy decision of the last decade.
Does he seriously imagine he can dictate its mandate and procedure on his own? At the very least, he should have discussed these issues with the leaders of the other parties first. Better still, he should allow a day's debate in parliament on it. It is not too late to do so, provided he makes clear he is ready to listen to MPs and adjust his decision.
Second, there is Brown's rejection of a public inquiry. This runs full square against the mood of the times. How can crucial issues of past public policy be investigated in private? The inquiry is not looking into future policy, or even current policy. It is examining history. Had Brown or his cabinet secretary consulted Lords Butler and Hutton, chairmen of the last two inquiries into aspects of the Iraq war, he would almost certainly find that they too believe any new inquiry should take public evidence on all points except a small number where intelligence could be compromised.
Brown cites the Franks inquiry into the runup to the Falkands war as the right precedent but the security and diplomatic framework in 1983 was different. The British victory in the South Atlantic did not end the dispute with Argentina over the sovereignty of the Falklands. The prewar advice of officials to ministers and the content of discussions in Whitehall were still sensitive after the war, and to have revealed details might have damaged Britain's position.
In Iraq, similar considerations do not apply. Saddam is gone, and there is no harm in revealing what arguments there were for or against overthrowing his regime, and whether a postwar occupation should be short or long.
There are complex choices to make. In broad terms, one kind of inquiry – and what many families of fallen British troops want – would seek to settle accounts by naming all those who took the key decisions, both officials as well as ministers. Another type of inquiry would be aimed at lesson-learning.
What were the mechanics of the Whitehall process which prevented ministers from being given well-founded advice on what an invasion would be likely to lead to? Was it the fault of Foreign Office Arabists and intelligence analysts who did not foresee resistance and failed to offer ministers a range of options for the post-invasion period – including the proposal that power should be handed to Iraqis as quickly as possible once Saddam was ousted? Was it the fault of ministers for not asking the right questions and not calling for expert analysis of the scenarios regime change would probably bring?
Ministers rightly assumed an invasion would topple the regime quickly, given the massive superiority of US and British weaponry. Did they not pause to think that winning the peace would be a much harder task, given that al-Qaida would seek to exploit the arrival of foreign troops and that no country likes being occupied, especially if its people are Arabs and the occupiers are non-Muslim westerners with a long, bitterly contested history of intervention? Was there no analysis of the effects on Britain's domestic security as well as its reputation in the Middle East and beyond?
My own view is that an account-settling inquiry is not the best route to follow. It would probably discourage witnesses from being candid or providing documentation. It would give an essentially punitive air to proceedings and lead at best to buck-passing between officials and ministers, and at worst to a media-stimulated search for heads to roll. The wider issue is to ensure that Britain enters no such "war of choice" again. For that to happen, it is better to concentrate on understanding how and why the government made a judgment that most British people consider to have been flawed.
There is a compromise. A proper inquiry would deal with the legal and as well as the policy advice given to cabinet. That would cover the legality of the invasion – a question previous inquiries have not examined. If the inquiry concluded that legal advice was weak or flawed, this could open the door for families to take civil court proceedings.
The key issue is that the inquiry must be held in public. No doubt Brown is afraid that hearings on the Iraq war could damage Labour's chances in the runup to a general election. Labour's chances are slim at best but exposure of the government's decision-making before and after the Iraq war is not going to swing many votes. What might swing more votes to Labour would be evidence that the government is thinking about learning lessons for the future and inviting the public into the discussion. That would show real respect for democracy.
www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/jun/15/secret-iraq-inquiry-gordon-brown
We badly need to learn from the most important foreign policy decision of the last decade. This tissue won't help us
June 15, 2009
Gordon Brown's announcement of a secret inquiry into the runup to and conduct of Britain's invasion and occupation of Iraq (not the nouns he used, of course) is scandalous.
First, the manner of his decision. Just last week the prime minister committed himself to a new spirit of public accountability, cross-party consultation on electoral and parliamentary reform, as well as a greater and more independent role for backbenchers and select committees. Now he promptly goes against all that when it comes to looking into the most important foreign policy decision of the last decade.
Does he seriously imagine he can dictate its mandate and procedure on his own? At the very least, he should have discussed these issues with the leaders of the other parties first. Better still, he should allow a day's debate in parliament on it. It is not too late to do so, provided he makes clear he is ready to listen to MPs and adjust his decision.
Second, there is Brown's rejection of a public inquiry. This runs full square against the mood of the times. How can crucial issues of past public policy be investigated in private? The inquiry is not looking into future policy, or even current policy. It is examining history. Had Brown or his cabinet secretary consulted Lords Butler and Hutton, chairmen of the last two inquiries into aspects of the Iraq war, he would almost certainly find that they too believe any new inquiry should take public evidence on all points except a small number where intelligence could be compromised.
Brown cites the Franks inquiry into the runup to the Falkands war as the right precedent but the security and diplomatic framework in 1983 was different. The British victory in the South Atlantic did not end the dispute with Argentina over the sovereignty of the Falklands. The prewar advice of officials to ministers and the content of discussions in Whitehall were still sensitive after the war, and to have revealed details might have damaged Britain's position.
In Iraq, similar considerations do not apply. Saddam is gone, and there is no harm in revealing what arguments there were for or against overthrowing his regime, and whether a postwar occupation should be short or long.
There are complex choices to make. In broad terms, one kind of inquiry – and what many families of fallen British troops want – would seek to settle accounts by naming all those who took the key decisions, both officials as well as ministers. Another type of inquiry would be aimed at lesson-learning.
What were the mechanics of the Whitehall process which prevented ministers from being given well-founded advice on what an invasion would be likely to lead to? Was it the fault of Foreign Office Arabists and intelligence analysts who did not foresee resistance and failed to offer ministers a range of options for the post-invasion period – including the proposal that power should be handed to Iraqis as quickly as possible once Saddam was ousted? Was it the fault of ministers for not asking the right questions and not calling for expert analysis of the scenarios regime change would probably bring?
Ministers rightly assumed an invasion would topple the regime quickly, given the massive superiority of US and British weaponry. Did they not pause to think that winning the peace would be a much harder task, given that al-Qaida would seek to exploit the arrival of foreign troops and that no country likes being occupied, especially if its people are Arabs and the occupiers are non-Muslim westerners with a long, bitterly contested history of intervention? Was there no analysis of the effects on Britain's domestic security as well as its reputation in the Middle East and beyond?
My own view is that an account-settling inquiry is not the best route to follow. It would probably discourage witnesses from being candid or providing documentation. It would give an essentially punitive air to proceedings and lead at best to buck-passing between officials and ministers, and at worst to a media-stimulated search for heads to roll. The wider issue is to ensure that Britain enters no such "war of choice" again. For that to happen, it is better to concentrate on understanding how and why the government made a judgment that most British people consider to have been flawed.
There is a compromise. A proper inquiry would deal with the legal and as well as the policy advice given to cabinet. That would cover the legality of the invasion – a question previous inquiries have not examined. If the inquiry concluded that legal advice was weak or flawed, this could open the door for families to take civil court proceedings.
The key issue is that the inquiry must be held in public. No doubt Brown is afraid that hearings on the Iraq war could damage Labour's chances in the runup to a general election. Labour's chances are slim at best but exposure of the government's decision-making before and after the Iraq war is not going to swing many votes. What might swing more votes to Labour would be evidence that the government is thinking about learning lessons for the future and inviting the public into the discussion. That would show real respect for democracy.
www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/jun/15/secret-iraq-inquiry-gordon-brown
dimanche 14 juin 2009
Kurdish expansionism in Kerkuk: no respect for Turkmen cemetery
THE KURDS HAVE SET THEIR EYES ON TURKMEN GRAVES
By/Savaş TAZELİ
It has been found out that the Kurds will build a shopping mall in an area where stands a graveyard in Kirkuk’s Musallah neighborhood. According to received information, some graves have been destroyed by earthmovers.
In the statement of the Iraqi Turkmen Front on the issue, it was asserted that efforts would be undertaken to stop the project as the construction site did not belong to the Kirkuk Foundations Directorate.
Najat Hussein, a member of the Turkmen Bloc in Kirkuk Provincial Council explained that “lately the Kurds had begun to seize the lands in Kirkuk and an estate of 650 m2 was rented to a citizen of Kurdish origin from Jamjamal district upon his recent request from the Sunni Foundation to build a shop in an area nearby the Musallah graveyard, but that he occupied an additional 900 m2 of land without the Foundation’s knowledge”.
Meanwhile, it was stated that a protest demonstration was organized in Musallah neighborhood by Turkmens who reacted against this practice on grounds that traces of the Turkmens were destroyed. The graves which were removed with earthmovers includes graves which belong to the Turkmens as well as the tomb of the Kirkuk Turkmen popular hero Noureddin Imam who fought back the British occupation after World War I. Additionally, there are also accounts that the Kirkuk based familial registers of some Turkmen families are being transferred to Baghdad city without their knowledge.
It has been stated that the Iraq Human Rights Center have reported this human rights violation which is an encroachment to Turkmen’s cultural rights, in written form to the Baghdad office of the UN Assistance Mission in Iraq (UNAMI), Human Rights Commission of the Iraqi Parliament, the Ministry of Justice and the Ministry of Human Rights, and that a request for investigation was made.
By/Savaş TAZELİ
It has been found out that the Kurds will build a shopping mall in an area where stands a graveyard in Kirkuk’s Musallah neighborhood. According to received information, some graves have been destroyed by earthmovers.
In the statement of the Iraqi Turkmen Front on the issue, it was asserted that efforts would be undertaken to stop the project as the construction site did not belong to the Kirkuk Foundations Directorate.
Najat Hussein, a member of the Turkmen Bloc in Kirkuk Provincial Council explained that “lately the Kurds had begun to seize the lands in Kirkuk and an estate of 650 m2 was rented to a citizen of Kurdish origin from Jamjamal district upon his recent request from the Sunni Foundation to build a shop in an area nearby the Musallah graveyard, but that he occupied an additional 900 m2 of land without the Foundation’s knowledge”.
Meanwhile, it was stated that a protest demonstration was organized in Musallah neighborhood by Turkmens who reacted against this practice on grounds that traces of the Turkmens were destroyed. The graves which were removed with earthmovers includes graves which belong to the Turkmens as well as the tomb of the Kirkuk Turkmen popular hero Noureddin Imam who fought back the British occupation after World War I. Additionally, there are also accounts that the Kirkuk based familial registers of some Turkmen families are being transferred to Baghdad city without their knowledge.
It has been stated that the Iraq Human Rights Center have reported this human rights violation which is an encroachment to Turkmen’s cultural rights, in written form to the Baghdad office of the UN Assistance Mission in Iraq (UNAMI), Human Rights Commission of the Iraqi Parliament, the Ministry of Justice and the Ministry of Human Rights, and that a request for investigation was made.
lundi 1 juin 2009
Elections régionales au Kurdistan irakien
Jalal Talabani et Massoud Barzani: chefs politico-maffieux
Elections régionales au Kurdistan irakien
BULLETIN DES AMITIES FRANCO-IRAKIENNES
AFI FLASH
n°93
2 juin 2009
Article publié dans Afrique-Asie de juin 2009
Elections régionales au Kurdistan irakien
LES KURDES ENTRE RESSENTIMENT ET COLERE
Le Kurdistan irakien, présenté dans certains médias comme une base avancée de la démocratie au Proche-Orient, retient son souffle. Massoud Barzani, président de la région autonome, a annoncé, après plusieurs reports justifiés par de soi disant problèmes budgétaires, que les élections au parlement régional se tiendront le 25 juillet prochain : 2,5 millions d’électeurs seront appelés aux urnes, et plus de 40 listes seront en lice pour 111 sièges. Voilà pour la façade.
Pour le reste, le plus important pour la population de la région, la situation est préoccupante, sinon catastrophique, que ce soit au plan économique qu’en matière de droits de l’homme. Les membres des tribus Barzani et Talabani trustent les postes décisionnels et dilapident les richesses régionales. Certes, les grandes villes ont des aéroports neufs, des hôtels cinq étoiles, mais l’électricité manque, les services médicaux sont déficients et l’enseignement laissé à l’abandon, ou presque. La corruption bat son plein et des groupes maffieux liés au pouvoir gèrent la contrebande, le trafic de drogue en provenance d’Afghanistan, et l’exportation clandestine de pétrole. L’immigration vers l’Union européenne semble le seul espoir de lendemains meilleurs pour toute une partie de la jeunesse. Moushiwan Mustapha, ancien n°2 de l’UPK (Union Populaire du Kurdistan) dont il a été le fondateur avec Jalal Talabani, compare le système mis en place après 2003 à celui de la Roumanie sous Ceausescu !
Abus de pouvoir, corruption et prisons secrètes
Les médias, à quelques exceptions près, sont aux ordres des deux grands partis. Les journalistes indépendants ne peuvent pas adhérer au syndicat officiel, et la moindre critique provoque en retour intimidations, arrestations et amendes. A Kirkouk, menacée d’annexion, la journaliste Soran Mama Hama, a été assassinée pour avoir critiqué les services sécuritaires kurdes. D’autres, à Erbil et Soulimaniya, ont échappé à des attentats pour avoir dénoncé les abus de pouvoir et la corruption. Pour la publication d’informations dites « confidentielles », Adib Aref, rédacteur en chef du quotidien kurde Hawlati, a été qualifié en 2008 de « traître au service de l’étranger » par le secrétariat de Barzani. Jalal Talabani, en tant que président de la République, s’en est pris aussi à lui, en lui intentant un procès pour avoir publié, en kurde, un rapport du chercheur américain Michael Rubin, qui lui déplaisait. L’ex-chef de guerre, que le légendaire Mustapha Barzani comparait à un scorpion, n’a évidemment rien du « George Washington irakien » vanté par le département d’Etat étasunien.
La sécurité – toute relative – ne prévaut au Kurdistan qu’au prix d’arrestations et d’incarcérations dans les prisons secrètes du ministère de l’Intérieur de la région autonome et des services secrets du PDK (Parti démocratique du Kurdistan, de Massoud Barzani) ou de l’UPK. Masrour Barzani, fils du président de la région, chef du Parastin, le SR du PDK, se croit tout permis. En février 2006, à Vienne, il aurait fait tabasser par ses gardes du corps à Vienne Kamal Saïd Qadir – citoyen autrichien – connu pour ses articles attaquant la nomenklatura d’Erbil. Arrêté lors d’un séjour au Kurdistan en 2005, cet intellectuel avait été condamné à … 30 ans de prison, puis libéré quelques mois plus tard grâce aux pressions exercées par l’Autriche sur le président kurde.
Test de popularité grandeur nature
La liste Kurdistan, du duo Barzani-Talabani, emportera-t-elle les élections ? L’UPK, en perte de vitesse, tire le PDK vers le bas. Bien qu’elle peut compter sur les voix de tribus qui leur ont fait allégeance, de nouvelles forces apparaissent, issues de la mouvance islamique ou inspirées par le PKK, l’organisation séparatiste kurde de Turquie. Kamal Saïd Qadir s’est déclaré candidat. Moushiwan Mustapha, qui dirige le groupe de presse Wisha Media Corporation, se présente en alternative sérieuse. Considéré comme « l’enfant terrible » du nationalisme kurde irakien, il concourra, avec Jawhar Namiq, membre de la direction du PDK qui l’a rejoint, sous l’étiquette du « Changement ». Sa liste peut compter sur le soutien du quotidien Rozhnama et de KNN-TV qui lui appartiennent. Mais, cette dernière n’émet que 7 heures par jour, peu à côté des chaînes radio et télévisées de l’alliance Barzani –Talabani avec leurs dix satellites émettant 24 heures sur 24. Mais, indication qui ne trompe pas, la défiance des Kurdes pour leurs dirigeants, un sondage effectué par Hawlati le 12 mai, place la liste du Changement en tête avec 59,3% des voix, suivie par celle des Quatre Partis qui regroupe des mouvements islamique et de gauche (19%). La liste Kurdistan ne dépasserait pas les 20%.
Qotab Talabani, le très contesté « ambassadeur » kurde aux Etats-Unis, a beau exhorter la diaspora kurde à dépasser ses ressentiments, la décision du Gouvernement Régional Kurde (KRG) de ne pas appeler à voter les électeurs résidant à l’étranger, jugés trop frondeurs, est du plus mauvais effet. Depuis plusieurs décennies, les Barzani et Talabani ont fait miroiter aux yeux des Kurdes les bienfaits de la démocratie et de l’indépendance. Pour ce qui est des libertés, depuis l’agression américaine de 2003, la population ne se fait plus d’illusions. Depuis qu’en mars dernier, Jalal Talabani a jugé « impossible » l’accession du Kurdistan irakien à l’indépendance, et réduit les vieilles revendications séparatistes kurdes à un « rêve poétique », le désenchantement transcende tout l’éventail politique. Quel que soit le résultat des élections en juillet, la stabilité dans cette région d’Irak est des plus incertaines.
La Région autonome du Kurdistan irakien
En arrivant au pouvoir à Bagdad, en juillet 1968, le parti Baas avait pour objectif prioritaire de rétablir la paix entre irakiens en réglant définitivement le problème kurde, en partant du principe que leurs aspirations étaient « naturelles et légitimes ».
Le 11 mars 1970, une proclamation jetant les bases de rapports nouveaux entre Arabes et Kurdes a été rendue publique, suivie en 1974 par l’octroi d’un statut d’autonomie interne pour les gouvernorats de Soulimaniya, Erbil et Dohouk, qui formèrent la Région autonome du Kurdistan.
A cette époque, Mustapha Barzani – père de Massoud – qui avait négocié le projet avec Saddam Hussein, alors vice-président, et qui y était favorable, changea brusquement de position en revendiquant les puits de pétrole de Kirkouk, sous la pression du Chah d’Iran, d’Henry Kissinger et d’Israël. Il proposa même à Washington de faire du Kurdistan… un Etat américain ! Aujourd’hui, après bien des péripéties et des dizaines de milliers de morts, la situation a certes évoluée, mais pour se ressembler. Cruellement.
Les services secrets kurdes font la loi
Le Parastin, le Dazgay Zaniyari et l’Asayish sont régulièrement accusés de détentions arbitraires, de torture, d’exécutions sommaires, et de nettoyage ethnique à Kirkouk et ses environs – riches en pétrole – où les Turcomans sont majoritaires. La plupart des détenus politiques, passés par des prisons secrètes, ou des « disparus », sont des membres d’organisations islamiques antiaméricaines. Les cadres des services secrets kurdes ont été à « bonne école », formés, suivant les époques, par le KGB, la Savak du Chah, la CIA, le Mossad israélien, voire le Vevak des Mollah iraniens.
Article publié dans Afrique Asie de juin 2009
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