Irak Türkleri özgür Basın ve Yayın izlemektedirler

Sadun KÖPRÜLÜ




Irak Türklerinin özgür tanıtım, Enformasyon, Basın Yayın mücadelesi 1990 yılından Erbil Türk şehrinde özgür demokrasini yansıtan, özgür bir enformasyon basın, yayın alanı oluşmuştur. Irak Türkmen Cephesinin, Türkmen partilerinin gazeteleri dergiler, sürekli olarak özgür olarak yayınlanmakla, bunun yanında çok sayıda Türkçe okurlarımız ve Türkmen Televizyonu, Radyosu vermiş olduğumuz Türk şehitlerimizin temiz kanlarıyla özgürcesine açılmıştır.

Her kes bir iletişim, bir birlik içinde olarak milletinizin haklarını, korkmadan çalışarak, yorularak savunmaktaydı. Kürtlerin her türlü baskısına rağmen, güç bizdeydi, birlik, beraberlik, milli mücadele, milli dava bizdeydi.

Saddam düştükten sonra durumlar dahada çok fazla değişmeye başladı. her türlü baskı engellere karşı, vermiş olduğumuz şehitlerle, bugün Türkmenelinde özgürce 24 saat yayın yapan Türkmeneli Radyo uydu Televizyonumuz bulunmaktadır. tüm saldırılara düşmanlara karşı, okullarımız, gazete, dergilerimiz gün ışığına çıkarak yayınlanmaktadır, uzun yıllardan kanlar, canlar vererek özgürce çalışmalarımızı sürdürerek, ölümden korkmadan, milli duygularla dolu milletimizin yararına, şehitlerimizle, tüm köy, ilçe, şehirlerimizle ilgili yazıları yazılarak, yiğit atılgan, kahraman erlerimiz gençlerimiz, yiğit ağabeylerimiz, onurlu korku bilmeyen kardeş bacılarımız, üzerlerine düşün büyük görevleri yerine getirmektedirler. Bunun yanında Şairlerimiz, Edebiyatçı, ses sanatkârlarımız, tarih, siyasi adamlarımız görevlerini, geceli, gündüzlü olarak, Türkmenelinin her yerinde, yerine getirmektedir, bedava olarak karşılık beklemeden, kendilerini paraya satmadan her bir alanda millet için görevlerini başararak önemli verimlerini milletimize sunmaktadırlar.

Basın, yayın, enformasyon, iletişim alanında dünyanın her yerinde, aydın kardeşlerimiz çalışmaları canlarıyla, kanlarıyla sürdürmektedirler. Bülten, gazete, dergi yayınlamaktadırlar. Ayrıca Türkiye ve dünyanın her yerinde, aydın değerli kan kardeşlerimiz, tarafından açılan Türkmen sitelerinin, büyük katkıları milletimiz için bulunmaktadır. Türkmen siyaseti alanında, bu siteler tarihimiz kültürümüzü tüm insanlara yansıtarak ulaştırmaktadır, tanıtmaktadırlar, tüm Avrupa, Amerika, Avusturya, Türkiye’de bulunan kan kardeşlerimizin katkı çalışmaları milletimizin değerini varlığını dünyaya, ve tüm Türk dünyasına yansıtmaktadır, ayrıca Türk kan kardeşlerimiz, Türk milliyetçi, Türkçü yazarlarımız her zaman olduğu gibi milli davamızı güzel yazılarıyla milli konularıyla yanımızda olduklarını tüm dünyaya bildirmektedirler, bu özgür Enformasyon, yayın, basın, iletişim alanında bir daha Türk milletinin büyük bir millet olduğunu tüm milletlere, dünyaya bildirmeye milli davamız, milli Türkçülük davamız canla, kanla, şehitlerimizin yolunda yürüyerek sürdüreceğiz.


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Land operation eased Iraqi Turkmens' concerns, says ITC

Friday, March 7, 2008

As the fallout from Turkey’s latest ground operation in northern Iraq stirred debate in Ankara between an unsatisfied opposition and the military, Iraqi Turkmens say the operation removed a feeling of abandonment among Iraq’s third-largest minority

Ankara-Turkish Daily News

Turkey's eight-day ground operation into northern Iraq to oust outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) terrorists from their hideouts alleviated Iraqi Turkmens' worries about their future, a representative of the Iraqi Turkmen Front (ITF) said at a conference in Hacettepe University yesterday.

“Turkey's ground operation in northern Iraq revived Turkmens' confidence in Turkey. We felt that we were not alone,” Sadun Köprülü, Turkey representative of the Iraqi Turkmen Front (ITC) said.

Köprülü stressed that while Arabs held power during the Saddam regime, the Kurds replaced them after the U.S. occupation in Iraq. “But the policies on the Turkmens, Iraq's third-largest ethnic group, have not changed and dirty tricks are still played in different ways including changing the demographic structure of Turkmen regions,” said Köprülü.

Köprülü emphasized Turkmens' unconditional faith in Turkey. However Köprülü was not completely satisfied with Ankara's attitude toward the region. “Turkey's policy on Iraq was better before 2003. I wish a small piece of the importance attached to Kurdish people had been attached to Iraqi Turkmens too,” said Köprülü.

He underlined that despite Turkey's refusal to cooperate with the United States at the beginning of the war in Iraq, Ankara's recent military operation in Iraq created “an atmosphere of hope” among Iraq's Turkmen population.

Köprülü also mentioned the collapse of the imaginary “Kurdistan” project and said, “in my opinion, this cross-border operation of the Turkish military has also terminated the imaginary Kurdistan state.”

Köprülü said even a tiny sign of support coming from Turkey encourages Iraqi Turkmens. “Turkey has a special place in the hearts of Turkmen people and we know that there are groups of Turkish people who support us.” He ended his speech by stressing that they defend Iraq's territorial integrity and they want to live in peace with different ethnic groups.

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Seeds of Hatred

In pursuit of colonial interests, Israel and its backers have insulted and defamed Islam, but as a consequence turn millions against them, writes Ayman El-Amir*

There is a sinister connection between the rise of anti-Muslim sentiment in the West and the tepid reaction to the blatant extermination campaign Israel is waging against the Palestinians in Gaza. Under the guise of freedom of expression, some West European media and officials, including most recently German Interior Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble, have sought to denigrate Islam and its symbols as a subhuman culture of cruelty and terrorism. It has thus become fair game for cartoonists, Europe's ultra-conservative politicians, and special interest groups.

This attitude provides cover for Israel to escalate its carnage against the Palestinians in Gaza with impunity. Dialogue of civilisations aside, the perpetrators of this defamation campaign -- particularly Israel and its supporting chauvinists -- should know better. Breeding a culture of hate and intolerance may, one day, come back to haunt them, as it did in similar circumstances in the past.

Western Europe is under the spell of a neo- conservative wave that travelled across the Atlantic from the United States after 11 September. Germany, France, the Netherlands and Britain are ruled by conservative governments that perceive Islam as an implacable enemy. Acts of terrorism in Spain and Britain, illegal immigration, the influx of cheap, unskilled labour into the European job market and the resistance of migrants to coercive cultural assimilation into newly adopted homelands continue to create social tensions and political problems. Likewise, to Arab and non-Arab Muslims alike, Western Europe is not exactly the melting pot that embraces foreigners, gives them equal opportunity and accepts as slow and difficult the process of integration that may take more than one generation to accomplish. After all, pogroms were committed against European Jewry because of its cultural seclusion and determined resistance to assimilation.

Western ultra-nationalist politicians and their Israeli allies are stoking Islamophobia as part of a racist campaign to demonise Muslims. This campaign serves the best interests of Israel in that it masks its genocidal war on rebellious Palestinians caged in the Gaza Strip. Tightening the noose around their necks every day is the premeditated policy of a criminal state.

Israeli Deputy Defence Minister Matan Vilnai warned the Palestinians of "a bigger holocaust" if they intensified the firing of their primitive Qassam rockets into Israel. The Israeli army made good on this threat. Israeli warplanes, land-to-land missiles and direct military invasion killed nearly 120 and wounded more than 350 Hamas resistance fighters, innocent civilians and children in a week-long campaign. Later on, the Israeli deputy minister withdrew his statement, not because it betrayed Israeli designs to commit genocide against the Palestinians, but to protect the exclusivity of the terminology.

For generations, Europe suffered the consequences of religious and ethnic intolerance exacerbated by colonial competitiveness and war. In framing the Charter of the United Nations at the end of World War II, Western powers talked of "saving succeeding generations from the scourge of war", that is, European-engendered war, "which twice in our life time has brought untold sorrow to mankind".

The 1975 Helsinki Final Act put to rest centuries-old European wars, disputes and territorial claims. But colonial ambitions towards developing countries continued unabated under different guises and targeted those with rich natural resources, particularly oil. Former competing colonial powers exported their wars, together with their "Jewish problem", to vulnerable developing countries, where instability would provide an excuse for intervention.

From the Arab perspective, Israel was created as an embodiment of settler colonialism -- a Western- supported racist and violent entity that promotes instability and colonial domination in the Middle East region. For the past 60 years, Israel has sown the seeds of violence that will continue to reap their horrid harvest for decades to come.

The US and Europe have driven the agenda of globalisation, including open borders, free markets, unfettered mobility of people and labour, free investment, financial deregulation, and the elimination of trade barriers. Tolerance, non-discrimination and acceptance of "the other" were introduced as the ideological-political underpinnings of the new, post-Soviet Union, globalised world of the 1990s and beyond.

Now, however, there is ample evidence to show that the new approach in international relations was designed primarily to serve Western designs on expanding new markets while no such terms of free trade were to be offered to developing countries. However, in the fast changing world of the 21st century, China emerged as a new power, scooped up much of the benefits of globalisation and joined the World Trade Organisation while sky-high oil prices cut the edge the West had previously enjoyed. Only in the arms trade and in lead technology, which China and Russia are chipping away at, does the West still hold an advantage. In this context, calls for tolerance, non-discrimination and acceptance of "the other" beget question marks, particularly with the rise of neo-chauvinism in Europe and neo-conservatism in the US.

The Euro-Mediterranean partnership proclaimed by the Barcelona Declaration in 1995 was ostensibly built on three pillars. It provided for political and security partnership, economic and financial partnership and a third tier for the development of social, cultural and human affairs. This was to be implemented through the so-called Barcelona Process. The process seems now to have been considerably reduced to intelligence gathering and information sharing about potential acts of terrorism, as well as blocking illegal immigration. And President Nicolas Sarkozy of France has advocated a radical change of the process to limit its scope to Mediterranean and Euro-Mediterranean countries, to the exclusion of other powers in Europe, particularly Germany, Britain and Scandinavian countries.

When Western Europe has no tradition of ethnic diversity and non-Europeans are accepted only because of the payback debt of colonial legacy, social and political conflicts become inevitable. Muslims, the new ethnic bête noir of intolerant Europe, have a long way to go to strike a balance between their cultural origins and the norms of their adopted societies. It is a compromise they will have to make in order to melt into European societies that for centuries embraced the culture of war, colonialism and xenophobia.

Meanwhile, Israel remains a racist and colonial anomaly in a world that is edging slowly towards a globalised culture that does not compromise national identity. Despite blind US support, West European guilt-complex sympathy and the deadly military power it musters, Israel, at best, will not escape the historical destiny of South Africa.

The political gimmickry of naming itself the homeland state of the Jews, a qualification US President George W Bush was quick to parrot, is identical in concept to the purity and superiority of the Aryan race adopted by Nazism. The fallacy of "God gave us this land" will not hold water for long.

Radical Islam is a phenomenon that emerged as a self-defence mechanism against brutal forces of neo-colonialism and hegemony. When it battled the Soviet invasion and occupation of Afghanistan, it was hailed as jihad. When it fought US invasion of Afghanistan and Iraq, it was condemned as terrorism. In both cases it was not mainstream Islam; only a transient trend that was called up to ward off foreign aggression.

For Israel and its racist allies to portray Islam as a global threat worthy of fear and hatred is to inculcate the same sentiments that unleashed some of the darkest forces in modern history, with sorrowful consequences. Israel and its backers exclusively depend on the use of naked military force. Military superiority has created empires and has undone them too. The lasting lesson of history is that, "He who lives by the sword dies by the sword."

* The writer is former Al-Ahram correspondent in Washington, DC. He also served as director of the United Nations Radio and Television in New York.
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Mosul's Turkmen, Arab, Kurdish Representatives Agree On Strengthening City's Institutions

04 March 2008

Turkmen, Arab and Kurdish representatives from Iraq's Mosul gathered in an Istanbul meeting on Sunday where they agreed on strengthening the city's institutions in a bid to find a genuine settlement and boost cooperation between the city's residents.


Turkmen, Arab and Kurdish representatives from Iraq's Mosul gathered in an Istanbul meeting on Sunday where they agreed on strengthening the city's institutions in a bid to find a genuine settlement and boost cooperation between the city's residents.
Representatives of the three communities, the three founding groups as defined by a 1932 declaration of the Kingdom of Iraq, agreed on devising means and ideas to contribute to the efforts to find immediate and permanent solutions to the existing problems such as the displacement of certain groups in Kirkuk, and to maintain stability in the region.

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Geography

The Turkmens of Iraq are concentrated in the northern Iraqi provinces of Mosul, Erbil, Kerkuk, Salahaddin and Diyala. There are also significant numbers of Turkmens in the central provinces of Baghdad, Wasit.

Population:

The Turkmens are the third largest ethnic group in Iraq after the Kurds and Arabs. The number of Turkmens is estimated at 3 million or 13% of the Iraqi population. They form a cultural buffer zone between Arabs and Kurds. The Turkmen region has large natural resources such as Oil, gas and Sulphur. In addition, there is an abundant production of wheat and cotton.

Language:

A dialect of the Turkish language.

Turkmen Reality:

The Turkmens are a distinct society and the third largest nationality in Iraq. They are distinct in language and culture from both their neighbours, the Arabs and Kurds. Yet, the Turkmens are continuously denied political rights and systematically faced assimilation.

Historical background:

The Turkmens, originally came from central Asia. They are descendants of the Turkic speaking Oghuz tribes who began settling in Iraq about 1500 years ago where they inhabited all of Iraq. They had a significant role in the administration of Iraq and established 6 states, The Seljuks, Atabegs, Ilkhanids, Jalairids, Qara Qoyunlus and Aq Qoyunlus.

Brief Recent History:

October 30, 1918, at the end of First World War, the Mosul province was still within the borders of the Ottoman Empire. The British troops occupied the territory after the cease-fire on November 11, 1918. Turkey refused to accept this act and demanded the return of Mosul province. The Turkmens and Kurds resisted British authority by participating in the popular 1920 Iraqi revolution and refused the British installed Hejazi Hashemite monarchy in 1921.

Turkmens were attacked on May 4, 1924 by the British army mercenaries (Levies) in Kerkuk, where many civilians were killed.

1925, Under the Constitution, the Kurds and the Turkmens had the right to use their own languages in schools, government offices and to have their own language press.

June 5, 1926, Turkey, under British pressure, accepted the integration of Mosul into Iraq.

1932, Entering the League of Nations, the Iraqi government declared that it will respect all minority rights.

But in 1933 began closing Turkmen schools and sent activists into exile.

1940 Arab tribes were settled west of Kerkuk.

July 14th 1959, Communists and separatist militias massacred Turkmen leaders along with hundreds of Turkmens in Kerkuk in an attempt to ethnically cleanse the city.

Revised census of 1957, showed the Turkmens as 9% of the Iraqi population.

January 24th 1970, The Baathist government granted cultural rights to the Turkmens.
But in 1972 prohibited the study in the Turkish language and restricted the Turkish media in Iraq to one weekly journal and one monthly magazine promoting Baath propaganda.

1973, In the Interim Constitution, no reference was made to the Turkmen population in Iraq.

January 16th 1980, Four Turkmen leaders were executed by the Baath regime and prohibited the public use of the Turkish language.

In the eighties, Turkmen activists were arrested, tortured and executed. Hundreds of thousands of Arabs were brought from central and southern Iraq and settled by the Baath government in Kerkuk and other Turkmen towns.

1990, the new Constitution states that “Iraqi people consist of Arabs and Kurds” only.

1991, the creation of the Safe Haven by the UN after the Gulf War, Included Erbil.
This, divided the Turkmens into two separate communities, a minority (15%) in the Safe Haven and the rest under Iraqi administration.

The same year, Iraqi Turkmens became member of UNPO.

April 24th 1995, The Iraqi Turkmen Front (ITF) was formed in Erbil as an umbrella organization to include all Turkmen parties and movements such as INTP, Turkmeneli Party, Independents Movement and 2 non political organizations.1996, Assault on the Safe Haven” by the Iraqi army, the headquarters of the INTP was attacked and destroyed. Tens of Turkmen leaders were executed.

2003 April 10th, U.S. forces entered Kerkuk and all Turkmen towns.

Assimilation Campaigns:

Turkmens suffered from various degrees of suppression and assimilation that ranged from political persecution and exile to terror, massacres and ethnic cleansing.

During the British and monarchy era, despite 1925 constitution and 1932 League of Nations declaration, cultural rights were gradually taken away, activists were sent to exile. Arab tribes were settled west of Kerkuk.

During the early republican era, Communist and separatist groups committed the Kerkuk Massacre of July 14.th, 1959 which aimed at terrorizing and ethnically cleansing the Turkmens from the city.

During the Baathist era, the Iraqi administration granted some cultural rights to the Turkmens on January 24.th, 1970, including education in the Turkish language in primary schools, daily radio broadcasting for two hours and TV broadcasting for half an hour in the Turkish language, these rights were gradually taken away by the authorities and by 1972, all Turkish schools were closed.

The assimilation of the Turkmens already became a state policy in 1971 when the General Assembly of the Baath Party decided to complete the Arabization of Kerkuk by 1980.

Administrative boundaries were changed in 1974 to divide Turkmen concentrations.

Since the mid 70s, Arabs enjoyed special incentives and rights encouraging them to move to historically Turkmen areas including the oil-rich city of Kerkuk.

In the latter half of the 1970s, the names of several Turkmen villages and places were given Arabic names.

Organizations

The Iraqi Turkmens are represented in the UNPO by Dr. Muzaffer Arslan the founder of the Iraqi National Turkmen Party (INTP).

Turkmens have the following political organizations:

1- Iraqi Turkmen Front (ITF) which is an umbrella organizations of several parties: INTP, Turkmeneli Party (TP), Adalet part (AP), Islamic Movement of Iraqi Turkmens (IMIT) and the Independents Movement.

2- Turkmen Nationalist Movement (TNM),

3- Turkmen Wafa Movement,

4- Islamic Union of Iraqi Turkmens(IUIT).

Non political organizations are: Turkmeneli Cooperation and Cultural Foundation (TCCF) in Turkey, Turkmen Brotherhood Center (TBC) in Iraq and Iraqi Turks Culture and Solidarity Association in Turkey.
Several other civil society organizations.

On October 7.th 1997, Turkmen organizations arranged a "Turkmen Assembly" in Erbil, northern Iraq. The assembly gathered most of the Turkmen organizations, and determined the cultural, educational, information and social policies for the Turkmen people.

The groups who attended the assembly have adopted the "Declaration of Fundamental Principles. A 30 member council was created from various Turkmen organizations.

In order to maintain the identity of the Turkmens and to ensure social solidarity worldwide, several associations and foundations were established in Denmark, Sweden, Germany, the Netherlands, Belgium, Turkey, Canada, the USA and Australia.

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Iraqi Kurds not ready to deliver on the PKK

Iraqi Kurdish leaders want to mend their relationships with Turkey but are still not on the same page with Ankara regarding the necessity to fight the outlawed PKK (A terrorist organisation), said a senior analyst.

Iraqi Kurds feel they are trapped between Iraqi Arabs and Iran and believe they have been let down by the Americans, said Soner Cagaptay, director of the Turkish Research Program at the Washington Institute.

Cagaptay was in northern Iraq last week as a delegation from the Washington-based think tank went to the region to talk with Iraqi Kurdish authorities.

The delegation was in Ankara Thursday to brief officials from the Turkish government.

Our first finding is that the Kurds have lost their numerical strength and political weight within the central Iraqi administration, said Cagaptay in an interview with the Turkish Daily News. The end of the boycott of the Iraqi parliament by Sunni Arabs seems to have eroded the numerical strength of Iraqi Kurds. Thanks to the surge of American troops, northern Iraq is no longer the only stable region in Iraq, as the rest of the country has become largely stable, despite exceptions in certain areas. Add to this fact the increasing cooperation between the United States and the Sunnis, and this explains, the erosion in Kurds' political weight, said Cagaptay.

The authorities of the Kurdish Regional Government (KRG) feel they bump into an Arab bloc on every issue, said Cagaptay, who held talks in Arbil, Suleymania and Dohuk. The KRG is facing a Sunni-Shiite bloc mainly on the government budget, the hydrocarbon law, and the issue of the status of Kirkuk. Payment of the salaries of the Peshmerga, the Kurdish military force, by the central administration is also an issue of contention between Baghdad and the KRG.Kurds are very disappointed that they are losing their former weight in the Iraqi central administration, said Cagaptay.

They are frustrated that their earlier gains are being reversed, he added. The new American attitude is another cause of disappointment for the Kurds. They feel they have been let down by the Americans, said Cagaptay. We were told to convey the message to the U.S. administration that Washington should not leave them.

(Source : Hurriyet English / March, 03, 2008)