#turkey bombing kurds

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by Bassam Tawil

"Turkey is bombing and massacring Kurds tonight. No protests, no marches, no media coverage, no condemnations from UN, no ICC arrest warrants for Erdogan. Since 1914 Turkey has killed over 1.5 million Kurds. Stop Kurdish genocide." — Hemdad Mehristani, researcher, X, October 23, 2024.

If Turkey has the right to respond to a terrorist attack by bombing dozens of targets belonging to Kurdish militants in Iraq and Syria, why is Israel being condemned for responding to the October 7 Hamas-led atrocities against its own citizens? Just because of the "two-state solution": Michigan and Minnesota?

Not only is Erdogan lying when he accuses Israel of "genocide," but he is also proving that he is a big hypocrite. If he is really worried about the safety of the Muslims in the Gaza Strip, why does he continue to support Hamas, while denying Israel the right to defend itself against Islamist terrorism? If he believes that he has the right to bomb Kurdish militants in Syria and Iraq, why is he denouncing Israel for taking the same action against Palestinian Islamist terrorists?

The complicit silence of the anti-Israel groups on US university campuses towards Turkey's crimes is simply evidence of a staggering racism and hypocrisy.

[scottishcommune]

Emergency aid for Rojava!

Humanitarian aid for the victims of Turkey’s aggressions

Turkey has been bombing civilian infrastructure in Rojava (North and East Syria) since 4th of October 2023, and the region is heading for a humanitarian catastrophe. Turkey has bombed more than 150 targets so far: Much of the region's vital infrastructure has been damaged or destroyed in a matter of hours. Turkey’s attacks have so far caused dozens of civilian deaths and injuries and destroyed 80 per cent of civilian infrastructure, including water and power supplies, hospitals, residential areas, schools, oil fields, factories and warehouses. Hundreds of thousands of people have been cut off from electricity and water supplies for days now. The Covid hospital in Dêrik, one of the most important hospitals of its kind in the region, was completely destroyed by the Turkish air strikes. Numerous other health facilities have been destroyed, hospitals cut off from electricity, cold chains broken - there are calls for blood donations. As Turkey’s attacks continue, the humanitarian situation is expected to deteriorate further and the death toll to rise. The Kurdish Red Crescent (Heyva Sor a Kurd) is on the ground providing vital humanitarian assistance. Support the work of Heyva Sor a Kurd with your donations!

Bank account

Heyva Sor a Kurdistanê e. V.

Kreissparkasse Köln

IBAN: DE49 3705 0299 0004 0104 81

BIC/SWIFT: COKSDE33XXX

Reference: Rojava

PayPal: paypal.me/heyvasorakurdistane

*please note:

Due to an order from the ADD Rheinland-Pfalz, they are currently unable to accept donations from Rheinland-Pfalz.

Contact and further information:

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E-Mail: heyvasor@web.de

Phone: +49 (0) 2241 975 25 83

Instagram: heyvasor

Twitter: @Heyva__Sor

Facebook: Heyva Sor a Kurdistanê e.V.

[honey-whiskey-666]

excuse me but where was the world community when turkey bombed southeast turkey the last few years and killed a lot of kurds? where was the world community when turkey bombed hospitals and schools in rojava and killed children and old people? where was the world community when turkey bombed iraq and syria and killed people and left the rest with no electricity and water? where was the world community when turkey bombed refugee camps in iraq and syria and killed people? where was the world community when azerbaijan attacked and invaded artsakh and people had to flee and leave their homes? tell me where was the world community, especially the muslim community? 80% of the kurds are muslims, so where is the support??

[dolcettamagica]

do you mind sharing some resources or giving some info that could help teach about what's going on in Kurdistan?

OF COURSE OMG

kurdistan’s timeline

more in depth history

kurdish genocides

another source to genocides

and again…

kurdish groups (pkk, ypg, ypj) saving us from isis

abdullah öcalan’s take on women’s rights

so, first you have the understand that kurdistan has been colonized by four countries: turkey, iran, iraq, syria. iraq and syria gave the kurds autonomous regions (which is the bare minimum). rojava is the syrian occupied kurdistan and bashur the iraqi occupied kurdistan.

those four countries did (and do) the same disgusting shit israhell has been doing to palestine, since 1923: prohibited the language, the national colors (turkey has prohibited new adidas shoes a few days bc they have red, green and yellow😭), raped women and kids, use illegal chemical weapons (the last time? two years ago), deporte them, genocides, even cutting off olive tress of kurds and so on.

iran hates the kurds with a burning passion, especially bc jin, jiyan, azadi was started by the kurdish freedom movement (pkk) centuries ago.

the most hate tolds the turkish regime. turkey’s crimes against kurds are ENDLESS. the worst being the dersim massacre. turkey also collaborated with ISIS to kill kurds in rojava. at the beginning of last october erdogan started to bomb rojava again!, citizens and even mosques. if you want all the crimes turkey has done to kurde you should ask for an extra ask cause turkey is the absolute worst.

the best news site regarding kurdistan is anf

you can also follow @/newsfromkurdistan on instagram.

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JinJiyanAzadi #BijiRojava ISIS and pro-Turkey faction step up assassinations in Syria [UPDATE]

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[dailyanarchistposts]

Water is essential for all life on Earth. But one-third of the world’s population do not have access to a supply of safe drinking water (a situation that is worsening). A third of all deaths in the world are the results of water-borne diseases. Water is a limited but endlessly renewed resource; its pollution, mismanagement and overuse by corporations, governments and people (turned into ‘consumers’ in a world that is not of their making) threaten to turn a global crisis into a long-term planetary disaster. The Vice-President of the World Bank, Ismail Seregeldin, stated in 1995 that “the wars of the next century will be over water… by the year 2025, the amount of water available to each person in the Middle East and North Africa will have dropped by 80% in a single lifetime”.

Disputes and Wars

40% of the world’s population depend on water from a neighbouring country. Over 200 large rivers are shared by two or more countries. In modern times the existence of vast cities, irrigated agriculture and the demand for hydro-electric power have led countries to claim or steal water resources once used by others. The cutting up of river systems by state boundaries has aggravated the problems of responding to floods. The political and engineering structures that bring economic power and political control to national and international elites also threaten lives and livelihoods. One reason for Turkey’s refusal to grant autonomy to the Kurds is the importance of water resources in eastern Turkey. Attempts to divert the sources of the River Jordan in South Lebanon and the Golan Heights provoked the Israeli-Arab War of 1967. Following this, Israel began to appropriate water supplies to support new settlements and supply towns and industry in Israel proper: Israel annually pumps 600 million cubic metres of water (over 30% of its supply) from aquifers that lie wholly or partly under the West Bank. 115 million cubic metres are allocated to the 1.4m West Bank Palestinians and 30m to 130,000 Jewish settlers; the rest (455 million cubic metres) goes to Israel. West Bank Palestinians have been barred from digging new wells or renovating old ones since 1967. Egypt offered Israel 400m cubic metres of fresh water a year to settle its conflict and assist the Palestinians; but there is still no agreement over water for the West Bank. There is a continuous threat of water wars in South Asia between India, Bangladesh, Nepal and Bhutan. Large-scale deforestation upstream results in increasingly widespread flood disasters below. Punjab water was an important contributory factor to the 1965 Indo-Pakistan war. Hindu nationalism has been fuelled by the unfair distribution of India’s water to the Sikh Punjab and led to the storming of the Sikh Golden Temple in Amritsar in 1984.

Modern wars depend on the destruction of the civilian population’s means of life and livelihood. In 1991 in Iraq, for example, the deliberate destruction of power supplies by bombing and war created a huge health problem. Over 90% of sewage treatment plants were disabled with huge amounts of untreated domestic and industrial sewage being pumped into rivers, creating an increase in water-borne diseases. Agricultural production was slashed by the breakdown of the electrically powered irrigation network. Before the Gulf War Iraq produced 30% of its food. Prior to the US-UK assault on Iraq in 2003, the figure was 10–15%.

[dougielombax]

Oh for fuckness’ sake!

Of course they’d be more concerned about Kurds than the remnants of Isis.

You know. Isis! Actual terrorists!

I’m glad to see that some in Iraq recognise this much!

Others not so much.

Fucking morons!

It’s the Assyrians, Mandaeans and Yazidis I’m mainly worried about but this shit isn’t gonna help anyone!

Fucking hell!

This is why Turkey’s posturing over Israel’s fuckery in Palestine rings as hollow and insincere.

Especially since Turkey continues to buy weapons from Israel and sell weapons to Azerbaijan.

[heretic-child]

fresh from the oven.

this turned into a pattern that turkey daily bombs rojava and threatens various communities living under the de-facto region, not just kurds.

when will any international organization raise their voice and sanction turkey?

[heyvasorakurdistane]

Emergency aid for Rojava!

Humanitarian aid for the victims of Turkey’s aggressions

Turkey has been bombing civilian infrastructure in Rojava (north eastern Syria) since 4th of October 2023, and the region is heading for a humanitarian catastrophe. Turkey has bombed more than 150 targets so far: Much of the region's vital infrastructure has been damaged or destroyed in a matter of hours. Turkey’s attacks have so far caused dozens of civilian deaths and injuries and destroyed 80 per cent of civilian infrastructure, including water and power supplies, hospitals, residential areas, schools, oil fields, factories and warehouses. Hundreds of thousands of people have been cut off from electricity and water supplies for days now. The Covid hospital in Dêrik, one of the most important hospitals of its kind in the region, was completely destroyed by the Turkish air strikes. Numerous other health facilities have been destroyed, hospitals cut off from electricity, cold chains broken - there are calls for blood donations. As Turkey’s attacks continue, the humanitarian situation is expected to deteriorate further and the death toll to rise. The Kurdish Red Crescent (Heyva Sor a Kurd) is on the ground providing vital humanitarian assistance. Support the work of Heyva Sor a Kurd with your donations!

Bank account

Heyva Sor a Kurdistanê e. V.

Kreissparkasse Köln

IBAN: DE49 3705 0299 0004 0104 81

BIC/SWIFT: COKSDE33XXX

Reference: Rojava

PayPal: paypal.me/heyvasorakurdistane

*please note:

Due to an order from the ADD Rheinland-Pfalz, we are currently unable to accept donations from Rheinland-Pfalz.

Contact and further information:

www.heyvasor.com

E-Mail: heyvasor@web.de

Phone: +49 (0) 2241 975 25 83

Instagram: heyvasor

Twitter: @Heyva__Sor

Facebook: Heyva Sor a Kurdistanê e.V.

[samueldays]

Is it just US politics that Germans are obsessed with, or do they always want to talk about other countries politics too?

I don't know, I live in Norway, but Norway is absolutely obsessed with US politics, and I view Norway as being a de facto vassal state of the US, lacking in sovereignty.

I've written before about how the US says 'bomb the middle east' and Norway jumps to drop hundreds of bombs on Libya. (Norway having about 1% of the US population, so relative to size, that's like tens of thousands of bombs from the US.)

Another indicator of the vassalhood is when I get a police warning to my job that there is going to be a Kurdish protest nearby, and the police are on standby because Turkish counter-protestors may get violent, and why the fuck are Turks and Kurds fighting in Norway? Because this protest is happening outside the American embassy over an American withdrawal from some random fuckistan, and these supposed 'turkish-norwegians' and 'kurdish-norwegians' are grossly unassimilated. If I were in charge I'd be inclined to deport every fucker who participates in a protest of that sort, on the grounds that you seem to be more Turkish or American, see if Turkey or America will have you, you have no business in Norway, you (ahem) colonizer.

I also recall the newsfeed during the first year of President Trump when the obsession got particularly bad. I was commuting to work by public transport, where some civic-minded person has installed screens aboard that show brief news summaries, and it was Trump this and Trump that constantly. I eventually decided to do a proper count instead of going on irritated impression: over the course of a workweek, every morning feed and every evening feed contained something about President Trump.

Even today, the public transport newsfeed has more about the US President than it has about, for example, the Swedish PM. The US is more important than a neighboring country is to Norway.

[melikemordemjaponi]

✽Opinion:We’re America’s most loyal ally in Syria. Don’t forget us.‐Mazloum Abdi

Mazloum Abdi is the commander of the Syrian Democratic Forces.

In 2014, the world learned about my hometown, Kobane, and my people, the Syrian Kurds, when we dealt the Islamic State its first major defeat in partnership with the United States and the Global Coalition. The alliances we forged there led to the end of the ISIS caliphate in 2019.

Today, Kobane is again under threat — and all the gains of those partnerships are also in danger.

Turkey is not threatening our people and the security and stability for which we have sacrificed so much because of anything we have done. As a pretext for war, Erdogan has accused our forces of involvement in a deadly bombing in Istanbul. Let me make it clear: We deplore and condemn this act of terror, reject all accusations of involvement and again offer our condolences to the victims. We reiterate our call for an investigation and are ready to assist if one takes place.

Had the international community stood firmly against a Turkish invasion and spoken up for peace, things may have gone very differently. Though no one can turn back time, we can learn from the tragedies of the past.

We declare that we are ready to play a helpful role in restarting these talks and reaching the peace that we seek. We call on the international community to immediately take concrete steps to prevent a Turkish invasion and to promote a political solution to the Kurdish conflict based on democracy, coexistence and equal rights. The existence of our people and the security of the region depend on it.

Via The Washington Post -Excerpts from the article+photo

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/12/03/mazloum-abdi-kurds-syria-

turkey-threat/

✽Görüşü : Biz Amerika'nın Suriye'deki en sadık müttefikiyiz. Bizi unutmayın.-Mazlum Abdi

Mazlum Abdi Suriye Demokratik Güçleri'nin komutanıdır.

2014 yılında ABD ve Küresel Koalisyon ile birlikte İslam Devleti'ni ilk büyük yenilgiye uğrattığımızda dünya benim memleketim Kobani'yi ve halkım Suriyeli Kürtleri tanıdı. Orada kurduğumuz ittifaklar 2019 yılında IŞİD halifeliğinin sona ermesine yol açtı.

Bugün Kobane yine tehdit altında - ve bu ortaklıkların tüm kazanımları da tehlikede.

Türkiye, halkımızı ve uğruna büyük fedakârlıklar yaptığımız güvenlik ve istikrarı, yaptığımız herhangi bir şey nedeniyle tehdit etmemektedir. Erdoğan, savaş bahanesi olarak güçlerimizi İstanbul'daki ölümcül bombalı saldırıya karışmakla suçladı. Şunu açıkça ifade etmeme izin verin: Bu terör eylemini esefle kınıyor, olaya karıştığı yönündeki tüm suçlamaları reddediyor ve hayatını kaybedenlere bir kez daha başsağlığı diliyoruz. Soruşturma açılması çağrımızı yineliyor ve soruşturma açılması halinde destek vermeye hazır olduğumuzu ifade ediyoruz.

Uluslararası toplum Türkiye'nin işgaline karşı kararlı bir şekilde durmuş ve barış için sesini yükseltmiş olsaydı, her şey çok farklı olabilirdi. Kimse zamanı geri alamasa da geçmişte yaşanan trajedilerden ders çıkarabiliriz.

Bu görüşmelerin yeniden başlatılmasında ve aradığımız barışa ulaşılmasında yardımcı bir rol oynamaya hazır olduğumuzu beyan ederiz. Uluslararası toplumu, Türkiye'nin işgalini önlemek ve Kürt sorununa demokrasi, birlikte yaşama ve eşit haklar temelinde siyasi bir çözüm bulunmasını teşvik etmek üzere derhal somut adımlar atmaya çağırıyoruz. Halkımızın varlığı ve bölgenin güvenliği buna bağlıdır.

Washington Post aracılığıyla -Makaleden alıntılar+fotoğrafı

✽オピニオン：我々はシリアにおけるアメリカの最も忠実な同盟国である。我々のことを忘れるな-マズルム･アブディ

私ことマズル厶･アブディは、シリア民主軍の司令官である。

2014年、私の故郷であるコバネーと私の仲間であるシリアのクルド人は、米国と有志連合との協力のもとイスラム国に最初の大きな敗北を与えたときに、世界に知られることになった。そこで築いた同盟は、2019年のISISカリフの終焉へとつながった。

今日、コバネは再び脅威にさらされている-そして、そうしたパートナーシップのすべての成果も危険にさらされているのである。

トルコは我々の国民や、我々が多くの犠牲を払ってきた上に成り立っている安全や安定を脅かしてはいない。

エルドアンは戦争を仕掛ける口実として、イスタンブルでの非道な爆破事件にわが軍が関与していると非難している。この点ははっきりさせてもらいたい。我々はこのテロ行為を嘆き、非難し、我々がこの事件に関与したというあらゆる非難を否定し、犠牲となった方々に改めて哀悼の意を表する。我々はこの件に関する調査を行うよう再度要求し、調査が行われた場合には協力する用意がある。

国際社会がトルコの侵攻に断固として反対し、平和のために声を上げていれば、事態はまったく違ったものになっていたかもしれない。誰も時間を戻すことはできないが、我々は過去の悲劇から学ぶことができる。

我々はこの協議を再開し、我々が求める平和に到達するために、有益な役割を果たす用意があることを宣言する。我々は国際社会に対し、トルコの侵攻を阻止し、民主主義、共存、平等な権利に基づくクルド人紛争の政治的解決を促進するため、直ちに具体的な措置をとるよう求める。我々の国民の生存と、地域の安全がそれにかかっているのだから。

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[oodlenoodleroodle]

I guess if Barack "lets drone bomb civilians" Obama qualifies for the Nobel peace prize then maybe Erdogan does too, maybe that's what that prize is actually all about then -_-

(I don't know of the right kind of tone tag exists for this, but the tone of this is basically "well fuck me then I guess because nothing makes sense anymore" like I'm throwing my hands up and giving up and accepting the fact that I must be the weird one for thinking that the shit Erdogan pulls in Syria and at the kurds in Turkey should disqualify him for forever.)

[honey-whiskey-666]

where are all those people that were pretending to care about hospitals, getting bombed?

ROJAVA (NE Syria) and Erbil are getting bombed by Turkey and Iran ...

WHERE THE FUCK IS THE MEDIA??

WHY IS EVERYONE SILENT??

Kurds and other minorities are getting BOMBED and KILLED by TURKEY AND IRAN

why isnt this trending here??? why arent people on the streets?? why is the whole fucking world silent and blind when it comes to the kurds?? because the aggressor is not Israel?!?!

why is nobody posting "I stand with the kurds" or "free kurdistan"???

turkey is bombing hospitals, schools, homes etc FOR YEARS and no one fucking cares..

HYPOCRISY AT ITS FINEST

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[amirblogerov]

Ethnic Cleansing of the Kurdish Population in Turkey and Syria: Context and Consequences

Turkey has been pursuing policies against the Kurdish population for decades, leading to accusations of ethnic cleansing both within its borders and abroad, particularly in Syria. The Kurds, the largest ethnic group without a state of their own, have historically been discriminated against, and their quest for autonomy and cultural identity has faced stiff resistance from the Turkish government.

Domestically, Turkey has been carrying out a series of operations aimed at suppressing the Kurdish movement, especially the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), which Ankara considers a terrorist organization. These operations include arresting activists, destroying Kurdish settlements, and restricting cultural rights. As a result of these actions, many Kurds have been forced to flee their homes, creating a humanitarian crisis. The situation is exacerbated by Turkey’s military intervention in Syria, where Kurdish forces such as the People’s Protection Units (YPG) play a key role in the fight against ISIS. In response, Turkey has launched several operations, claiming to combat the “terrorist threat.” These operations often involve bombing and ground attacks, causing massive displacement and destruction of infrastructure.

The United States, as an ally of the Kurds in the fight against ISIS, finds itself in a difficult situation. On the one hand, it supports the Kurdish forces, but on the other, it cannot fully oppose Turkey’s actions, given its strategic interests in the region and the importance of NATO. This creates a paradoxical situation where the United States is effectively providing indirect support for ethnic cleansing, not wanting to worsen relations with Turkey.

These events have caused international condemnation and alarm among human rights organizations. Ethnic cleansing leads to serious humanitarian consequences for the Kurdish population – loss of homes, cultural identity, and life. It is important to understand that such actions not only violate human rights, but also threaten the stability of the region as a whole.

In conclusion, Turkey's policy towards the Kurdish population remains one of the most complex and controversial issues in the Middle East. A more active international response is needed to protect the rights of the Kurds and prevent further ethnic cleansing both inside and outside Turkey.