Ismail Besikci
In Turkey, the Kurds are told this. ‘You’re going to live with me. But you’re going to leave your language and culture and live with my language, my culture. You’re going to be like me, you’re going to stop being yourself. You don’t have a choice.’ It is clear that this process is carried out with policies of assimilation and destruction.
In the 1950s, ’60s and later, in South Africa, Blacks were treated very differently by the white administration because of their skin. Black supremacists were told, ‘Your color is black, do not blend in with you whites’. ‘Your color is black, your neighborhoods are separate, your hotels are separate, hospitals, cinemas are separate, your schools are separate, your cafes, your bakeries are separate…’ ‘Don’t go into the cafes where you white people go in and out, don’t let black kids go to schools where white people go, blacks don’t get on the transportation vehicles, buses, trains used by white people…’ It’s called the Apartheid regime…
In this context, very large areas called Bantustan, surrounded by barbed wire, were established. Black people, around here, living themselves, living in their own language, their culture. Infrastructure services were very lacking. His sewers were often blocked. There would often be power outages, water outages. The school buildings weren’t solid, but the Blacks lived here.
In the same years, there was a similar situation in the United States. Black supremacists can’t get on transportation that white supremacists get on. They didn’t go into white cafés or bakery shops. Black people can’t send their kids to schools where white kids go. There was a lot of racism, especially in the southern parts of the United States. The Ku Klux Klan was organized here.
Nelson Mandela (1918-2013), who was imprisoned for 27 years, was released from prison in the early 1990s. Nelson Mandela won the presidential election in 1994. De Klerk, the leader of the white administration who kept Nelson Mandela in prison for 27 years, became vice president. This is a phenomenon that shows that the official ideology of white government in South Africa can yawn, not too strict.
In America, too, a very important struggle against racism has developed. Malcolm X (1925-1965) Martin Luther King (1929-1968) was murdered during this struggle… On November 4, 2008, Barack Obama was elected president. This is a very important win in the fight against racism in the United States. Barack Obama is known to have been president for two terms.
On May 25, 2020, in Minneapolis, the arbitrary murder of George Floyd by a policeman is heavily and widely protested in the United States. Huge crowds are worldwide in the United States. It makes a lot of sense that 65% of those who participated in these protests were white.
It’s not right to try to understand racism, just to understand it in skin color, to explain it. In Turkey, the Kurds are told this. ‘You’re going to live with me. But you’re going to leave your language and culture and live with my language, my culture. You’re going to be like me, you’re going to stop being yourself. You don’t have a choice.’ It is clear that this process is carried out with policies of assimilation and destruction. It is also known that the continued insult and humiliation against the Kurds has not met any investigation.
This is also racism, in the words of Umit Kivanc, which is a much more cruel and unthric racism. What is racism? Not to be worthy of the rights, freedoms, another nation that you consider worthy of your own nation… There is also a false sense of equality here. ‘Everyone in Turkey is equal. No ethnic or religious group can be granted privileges. Anyone can serve in public services. Everyone, teachers, soldiers, officers, governors, deputies, ministers, generals, prime ministers, president can be.’
This false understanding of equality is heavily defended by the Turkish press, by the Turkish university, by the courts, by the Turkish political parties, by most of the non-governmental institutions. It is emphasized that Turkish nationalism, Ataturk nationalism is not racist. It can also be said that this false understanding of equality is accepted by international institutions such as the United Nations, such as the Council of Europe, the European Union. This understanding is given such a great weight that it is never considered on the basic condition of it. The basic condition is always blacked out. However, the realization of this equality depends on the Kurds rejecting their own and becoming Turks. Kurdler, with their Kurd identities, cannot take part in any part of the public. The Kurds, by their own identity, become more prisoners…
Article 66 of the Constitution states that ‘everyone who is bound by citizenship to the Turkish State is Turkish’. According to this article, every Turk, meanwhile, can be a Member of Parliament for Kurdler, who participated in the elections as a Turk. But, when a Kurd, who enters the Parliament in this way, begins to develop a rhetoric about the rights and freedoms of the Deputies, when he starts organizing and institutions in this way, he faces very serious problems. First, his immunity is removed. He’s detained, arrested, put in prison. A lot of charges are ready for you. To be the founder of a terrorist organization, to be a member of a terrorist organization, to aid and aid in terrorism… Vs.
In the history of the Turkish parliament, which mPs have been massively thmed? Which municipalities have been assigned mass registrations in the history of Turkish municipalism? However, there is persecution of these MPs even before immunity is lifted. These mayors faced oppression and persecution even before registrations were appointed.
‘Your color is black, you live outside the areas where I live, according to racism, you will live with me, but you will be like me, you will refuse to be yourself racism…’ it is a much more cruel, overwhelming, determinating racism. It is obvious that this racism is carried out in parallel with assimilation policies.
‘Your color is black, live outside the areas where I live, racism is cursed all over the world today. The whole world is aware of this. Positive developments are also found all over the world. Today, it is possible to come across Blacks in all sections of the Public in the United States. Governorship, banking, police, army, deputies, senators, etc. Carnage cops like Derek Chauvin face criminal investment.
‘You’re going to live with me, you’re going to refuse to be yourself, you’re going to live with my culture with my language, you’re going to be Turkish like me…’ racism, the press, university, judiciary, public administration, police, army, prison, such as all institutions are standing and living. The United Nations, the Council of Europe, the European Union, such as international institutions are seen to have accepted. It’s the false understanding of equality that hides and blacks out racism. But he hasn’t been strongly conscious of that yet.
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