lundi 17 juin 2013

Irak Türkleri baskılara karşı direnmektedirler

Irak Türkleri baskılara karşı direnmektedirler
Yazan: Sadun KÖPRÜLÜ

Irak Türklerinin yüce tarihleri  şehitlerimizim temiz kanlarıyla yazılarak parlak gelecekleri için vermiş oldukları uzun yıllardan beri, milli mücadele davalarını yansıtmakla, bu topraklarda yıllar önceleri Türk devletleri kurularak varlı, üstün Türklük kokan bir tarihe, zengin bir kültür, folklor gelenek, göreneğine sahip çıkarak, Edebiyat, sanat Türk dilleri alanında çok yapıtlar yazarak, çalışmaları ile sağlam verimli gelişmeler elde ederek, çok sayıda büyük şair, yazar, edebiyatçılar, bu Türk topraklarda yetişerek, dünya çapında tanınmışlardır.

Birçok yapıt eserler gün ışığına bırakarak şanlarıyla, adlarıyla önem değer, önlük kazanmıştır.

Irak topraklarında tarihten önce yoğun olarak Türkler bü bölgelerin tek sahibi olarak yaşayarak, üstün vatlıklarını ortaya koymuşlardır.
Kahramanlıkla, yiğitlikle savaşlarda öncülükle tarihi kanlarıyla, şanlarıyla yaratmışlardır. 

Türkler Irak’ın her bir şehir yerinde yapıtları, kalıntıları uygarlıkları, izleri günümüze kadar görünmektedir.



dimanche 16 juin 2013

The outgoing UN envoy to Iraq Martin Kobler has warned the violence is "ready to explode".






Another bloody day in Iraq as political deadlock lingers

Wave of car bombs, shootings, mostly targeting Shiites, kill 25
people as Iraq grapples with prolonged political deadlock.

Middle East Online

By Ahmed al-Rubaye – BAGHDAD


Death toll rises


A wave of car bombs and shootings, mostly targeting Shiites,
killed 25 people Sunday as Iraq grapples with a spike in violence
and prolonged political deadlock, sparking fears of all-out
sectarian war.

In all, at least 10 vehicles rigged with explosives went off in eight
cities in Iraq's Shiite Muslim-majority south during morning rush
hour, leaving around 100 people wounded, while the main
northern city of Mosul witnessed a deadly shooting.

lundi 10 juin 2013

BC and The History of the Iraq War - Matt Carr



I watched the first part of the BBC's 'History of the Iraq War' series, and I have no intention of watching any more, because it won't do my blood pressure any good.
I don't think I've ever seen such a shallow and essentially reverential piece of telehistory. Within ten minutes I was ready to scream with frustration at the tv set, which is really a very futile activity.

The first problem was the content. Watching Cheney, Hadley, Blair talk about their conspiratorial plotting was a deeply depressing and quite disturbing experience, which confirms my view that these are men without even the semblance of moral conscience. Not one of them showed the slightest sign of regret or remorse or any sense of having done anything wrong.They chatted about their part in the Iraq disaster with a kind of pride, as though they were talking about how they laid down guitar tracks on Classic Albums, rather than a war in which hundreds of thousands of men, women and children were killed and maimed, and a country shattered – all thanks to their sleazy and moronic machinations.

Not one of them showed the slightest capacity for insight into or reflection. Listening to their slick blather made it clear that they didn't care then and they don't care now. Evil would be too strong a word to describe men who are so essentially banal and hollow, and so devoid any moral compass except power.

It was sickening to hear Blair talk about how "we decided we were going to remake the Middle East". Disgusting to listen to Paul Wolfowitz uttering the cliche about Saddam "using WMD against his own people" – the same Wolfowitz who once declared that he only used WMD to justify the war "for bureaucratic reasons". Horrible to hear Blair's ghastly apparatchnik Sally Morgan say that the anti-Iraq war demo was a "difficult day for us" and talk about how angry her boss was when he was raked over the coals on tele shortly before the war by a group of anti-war women – probably the only time in his political life when Blair was ever treated the way he deserves.

But the worst thing about the programme was that the BBC let them say whatever they wanted without challenging them. The journalist never asked a single penetrating question, never offered any real alternatives to what Blair & Co were saying. The programme was about as forensic as a banana, and made the Chilcot Iraq inquiry look positively inquisitorial by comparison.It wasn't even history from the top down – just the official story told by the "key players" – for the BBC the only people worth hearing – in the way they wanted it told. The journalists who made the programme were clearly so awed by their privileged access that they let them get away with it.

Journalists aren't supposed to do this, but the people who made this programme are not journalists, but scribes of power, gutless sycophants and glove puppets who shame, not just the BBC, but journalism itself.All in all a pathetic display, which says a great deal about the state we're in.

samedi 8 juin 2013

IRAQ: No chance to live or leave

No chance to live or leave

With the security situation continuing to deteriorate across Iraq, few Iraqis believe in the process of reconciliation, writes Nermeen Al-Mufti in Baghdad
Last May was labelled the bloodiest month in Iraq since 2008, with, according to the UN, 1,045 people killed and 2,397 wounded, among them tens of children, women and university students.
The last week of the month saw the public tea-house wars, with many of the latter being targeted, both in Sunni and Shia neighbourhoods of Baghdad and other cities and killing tens of civilians.
The escalating violence in the country has made its top political and religious figures call for a meeting in the home of Ammar Al-Hakim, head of the Islamic Supreme Council of Iraq, in Baghdad in response for a call for this to take place.
The meeting took place last Saturday, and a significant picture was taken of Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri Al-Maliki embracing the parliamentary speaker Osama Al-Nujaifi, both of whom have been engaging in a media war against the other for months.
However, no tangible measures were announced as a result of the meeting, and further meetings have been announced.

ITF EU representative Dr Hassan Aydinli attended the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) event : ‘The forgotten Nation: Turkmens in Iraq” in Geneva

On this photo: Sheikh Fateh Kashif Al-Ghitaa, Adviser to Prime Minister Al-Maliki; Dr Hassan Aydinli, ITF EU Representative and Commissioner Dr. Sallama H. Al-Khafaji, High Commission for Human Rights Iraq.




The UNPO and Minority Rights Group International organized a side event during the 23rd Session of UNHRC at the Palais des Nations in Geneva on 6th June 2013 to raise awareness about the human rights situation of the Iraqi Turkmens.

At this side event ITF EU representative Dr Hassan Aydinli raised the Unresolved Property Rights Issue of the Iraqi Turkmens who were evicted from their properties and agricultural lands under the Arabization policy of the Baath regime over 30 years ago and who - despite the regime change in Iraq 10 years ago - are still waiting to recuperate their confiscated properties and agricultural lands and receive fair compensation for their loss of income.

Being himself a victim of land grabbing, he cited the case of his village, the Turkmen village of Bashir (Beşir in Turkish), which is situated some 40 km south west of Kerkuk city centre, as it represents a perfect Case Study of the consequences of the former regime’s policies, and also because he has all the official documents and deeds proving that the Turkmen inhabitants of Bashir were the rightful owners of the lands in and around the village. Indeed, his tribe had settled in Bashir many centuries ago, the Turkmen village of Bashir and the number of its households (89) was mentioned for the first time in 1556 in the Land Registry, under Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent. These records are kept in Ankara in the archives of the Republic of Turkey.

Dr. Hassan Aydinli spoke extensively on the problem of property and land confiscation from the Turkmens in Iraq. He described the inadmissible conditions imposed on the Turkmens in Iraq since 1921 and the intolerable human rights violations committed against them during decades under the Baath regime.


Taking the subject of land grabbing and property confiscation from the Turkmens as an example of their human rights violations in Iraq, he showed secret official Iraqi documents proving these confiscations and he also showed the deeds of the properties and of the agricultural lands belonging to his family in Beşir which were confiscated by the Baath regime in 1984 and which remain confiscated, despite all his efforts with the new regime since 2003 to recuperate them.


Dr Aydinli underlined the fact that Turkmens did not receive any compensation from the Iraqi government for the loss of their properties during the last three decades up to now, even though the Iraqi government, according to Prime Minister Mr Al-Maliki, has already spent more than one billon USD for the compensation of victims of property and land confiscations under the Baath regime. This shows that the Turkmens continue to be discriminated in Iraq even though they are recognised victims of a well defined agressor: the Baath regime.


Dr. Aydinli also mentioned the fact that the Iraqi central government had decided, on 30th March 2006, to rebuild the village of Beşir which had been razed to the ground by the Baath regime in 1987 and that it had allocated a budget of 43 Billon Iraqi Dinars (equivalent of +/- 36 million USD) for rebuilding Beşir. Unfortunately, the local government in Kirkuk did not cooperate with the central government in Baghdad regarding the realisation of the project in Beşir, on the contrary, it complicated the situation even further with futile bureaucratic decisions which prevented the realization of the project and nothing has been built in Beşir by the Iraqi government since then. This is another example of  neglect of Turkmens' interests by the local authorities in Kirkuk which are dominated by the Kurds since 10th April 2003.


Three delegates from Iraq attended the side event, two members of Iraq’s High Commission for Human Rights, Dr Sallama H. Al-Khazraji and Mr Masrur Aswed and the Adviser to Prime Minister Nuri-Al Maliki Sheikh Fatih Kashif Al-Ghitaa, they were in Geneva to attend the 23rd Session of UNHRC. Dr. Aydinli discussed the Turkmens’ Plight with them in detail and they promised to pass his message to Prime Minister Nuri Al-Maliki.


dimanche 2 juin 2013

TÖGB GENEL MERKEZİNDEN BİR HEYET BEŞİR BÜROSU GENÇLERİ İLE BİR ARAYA GELDİ







Türkmeneli öğrenci ve gençler birliğinden Sn.Mardin GÖKKAYA
başkanlığında bir heyet Türkmen Beşir köyünü ziyaret etti ziyaretçi
heyet Beşir gençleri tarafından sıcak bir şekilde karşılandı .ziyaretin
amacı Beşir Öğrenci ve Gençleri ile bir araya gelerek gençlerin
sorun ve problemlerine ele almak ve sorunların giderilmesine
çalışmak oldu .

Ziyarette TÖGB Başkan yardımcısı Mustafa BAYRAKTAR ve
yürütme kurulu üyeleri ve Beşir Bürosu sorumlusu da hazır oldu.
Gençlerle bir aray gelen GÖKKAYA konuşmasında günlük
siyaset ve günlük cereyan eden hadiselere ışık tutarak gençlerle
fikir alış verişleri gerçekleştı. Ayrıca açık oturumda Beşir
köyünün sıkıntıları ve gençlerin istekleride beşir gençleri
tarafından heyete sunuldu.

Son olarkta Beşir Bürosu gençleri TÖGB heyetine ziyeretinden
dolayı memnun oldular.


TÖGB ENFORMASYON BÜROSU
http://www.bizturkmeniz.com/tr/index.asp?page=article&id=27692



samedi 1 juin 2013

Parler de la situation des Turkmènes irakiens, Gilles Munier


Intervention de Gilles Munier (5ème Conférence des médias turkmènes irakiens – Istanbul - 18 et 19 mai 2013)

Je remercie les organisateurs de cette conférence de m’avoir invité et donné l’occasion de dire quelques mots.

Je suis Français et connaît assez bien l’Irak pour y avoir effectué environ 150 voyages depuis 1974. J’y ai accompagné des journalistes, des hommes politiques, des universitaires, des hommes d’affaire… J’ai surtout été témoin des malheurs qui se sont abattu sur ce pays : guerre Iran-Irak, 1ère guerre du Golfe, embargo, 2ème guerre du Golfe… Mon dernier voyage a eu lieu en mars 2003, au cours duquel je me suis rendu à Bagdad et à Mossoul avec une délégation française de spécialistes des armes de destruction massive qui ont dénoncé –preuves à l’appui – les mensonges de George W. Bush et de Tony Blair. J’ai quitté Bagdad la veille du bombardement. Depuis, comme journaliste indépendant, je suis quotidiennement l’actualité de l’occupation du pays – ou de sa double occupation, pour être plus précis – ainsi que les activités de la résistance -  civile ou armée – et, pour revenir au sujet qui nous concerne tous ici : la volonté des dirigeants de la Région autonome du Kurdistan de s’emparer de Kirkouk et de territoires avoisinant gorgés de pétrole, peuplés depuis des siècles par les Turkmènes.

Mon premier passage au Pays des Turkmènes – appelés généralement en France : Turcomans – date de 1976. Membre permanent d’une association franco-arabe qui entretenait alors de bonnes relations avec l’Irak, j’accompagnai un cadre d’une chambre de commerce de Bretagne – région située à l’ouest de la France - qui souhaitait rencontrer les dirigeants de la Région autonome du Kurdistan, nouvellement créée. En visitant Erbil, je n’ai pu que constater que la ville était peuplée, pour une large part, de Turkmènes. J’y suis retourné trois fois ensuite et me suis aperçu que la proportion de Kurdes allait grandissante, ce qui me semblait tout naturel puisque la ville était en quelque sorte la capitale du Kurdistan irakien. Je ne savais pas, à l’époque, que Saddam Hussein – alors vice-Président – avait, quelques années plus tôt, autorisé Mustapha Barzani à« kurdiser » Erbil et qu’en dépit de la reprise de la rébellion – soutenue par les Etats-Unis, l’Iran du Chah et Israël -, c’est ce qui était arrivé sous la direction des partis et tribus kurdes liés au pouvoir central.

Quiconque a traversé, comme moi, les ponts sur l’Altun Su ou l’Aq Su à Altun Kopru ou à Tuz Khurmatu – ou est allé  à Tel Afar - s’est aperçu que les noms de lieux et la langue des habitants de la région sont différents d’ailleurs en Irak, qu’une minorité méconnue – les Turkmènes - est majoritaire dans toute une partie du pays. Depuis la chute de Bagdad et le déclenchement de conflits ethniques et religieux, grâce à Internet – et malheureusement aux attentats et aux massacres dont sont victimes les Irakiens, les médias font parfois mention des Turkmènes – on en sait plus, dans le monde, sur les Turkmènes irakiens. En Belgique, l’Association des Amitiés Europe- Turkmènes et le Comité pour la Défense des droits des Turkmènes irakiens ont brisé le silence qui entoure trop souvent leur situation. Mais, en Europe, nombreux sont encore ceux qui les assimilent à des colons Turcs installés par l’Empire ottoman. Très peu de gens savent que leur présence est bien antérieure à la prise de Constantinople par les Ottomans.

Dans les années 1970, des intellectuels et des hommes politiques se réunissaient en Europe occidentale pour sensibiliser l’opinion publique au problème kurde. Je dis « problème kurde », mais en fait exclusivement kurde irakien. Aujourd’hui, les Turkmènes irakiens sont plus de 3 millions - c'est-à-dire à peu près le nombre des habitants du Kurdistan irakien dans les années 1970 – et rien ne les empêche d’en faire autant. Les outils de communication –Internet, Facebook, Twitter, You Tube… etc… - leur faciliteront la tâche et leur permettront d’atteindre sans grands frais beaucoup de monde. Ces outils doivent être utilisés au maximum, c'est-à-dire pas seulement en anglais, en arabe ou en turc. Il ne faut pas oublier le Français, l’Espagnole et le Portugais parlés en Afrique et en Amérique latine.

Pour nous, observateurs de ce qui se passe en Irak, il manque une agence de presse qui rendrait compte de l’actualité à Kirkouk et dans le Pays des Turkmènes. Par exemple, des élections provinciales viennent de se dérouler en Irak, on n’en connaît pas le détail. C’est dommage. Toutes les occasions devraient être bonnes pour parler des Turkmènes.

La Turquie pourrait contribuer – grâce à son expérience dans le domaine des médias – à la diffusion des informations qui nous permettraient, dans nos pays respectifs, de mieux informer l’opinion publique sur la question turkmène.

Je vous remercie.

Par Gilles Munier, sur le même sujet,
lire aussi :

Les Turcomans irakiens :
un peuple oublié ou marginalisé (AFI – Flash - 31 mai 2007)

La poudrière de Kirkouk (AFI - Flash - 27 janvier 2005)

La poudrière de Kirkouk menace d’exploser (Afrique Asie – juillet 2012)

Interview de Hassan Haydinli,  
Président du Comité de Défense des Droits
des Turkmènes Irakiens (20/1/05)

La campagne électorale des législatives en pays turkmène (2/2/10)

La grandeur des Turkmènes irakiens (Afrique Asie – octobre 2007)

Amirli, village turcoman martyr  (AFI – Flash - 4 août 2007)

Les Turkmènes accusent les Etats-Unis d’exacerber les tensions en Irak