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On the Burning of the Kurdistan Flag and the KDP Building…

Ismail Besikci

On October 17, 2020, the hashemi shabi side burned down the Kurdistan Democratic Party building and the Kurdistan Flag in Baghdad. Remember, the Kurd Press, dated September 16th, reported that in Baghdad, a Kurd family, their parents and their daughter were murdered. His parents retired as civil servants. Their daughter was a student at medical school. It was also emphasized that the neighborhood where this family lives is a very security security district, that ordinary people cannot enter it, but that civil servants can enter it. The area called Green District… One of the four perpetrators of the massacre was captured in Hewler by the Kurdistan Public Security Forces the day after the massacre. This was an officer in the Iraqi Interior Ministry.

Let’s be careful, the building of a party that mentions independence, who says Kurdistan, who is fighting primarily for Kurds, for Kurdistan, who has always defended Kurdish rights and freedoms, is being burned down. Let’s remember, on August 22-23, 2020, demonstrators also attacked the KDP building while burning public buildings and Aleppo archives in Aleppo. Of all the party buildings, they only attacked the KDP building. (see Burning of Aleppo Archives and Attack on KDP, nerinaazad, 14.9.2020, also uk. zazaki.net, kovara one, kürdistan-post.com eu sites)

KDP, ‘I am an international party…’ Would he have encountered such operations? In my opinion, no. Because then the end of Kurdistan would be expected to melt away and be invisible among many problems. Among many problems, it would be unclear where this problem stands.

 In areas torn from Kurdistan, abductions, tortures and slaughters take place every day against the Kurds. Arabs brought to the region, Kurds call it imported Arabs, Kurd farmers are encouraged to occupy their land. It is emphasized that the Iraqi police are not involved in any prohibitive efforts. It is emphasized that all these anti-Kurdish activities took place in front of the Iraqi police and that the governor of Kirkuk was very active in this regard. In most of the areas plucked from Kurdistan, members of ISIS are reported to be working as Iraqi police during the day and ISIS at night. And first of all, they are fighting against the Kurds.

On the evening of October 18, 12 Kurds were abducted by gunmen with their faces covered in Ferhatiye Village in Saladin province, Beled province. The bodies of ten of them were found in an area close to the village. In areas torn from Kurdistan, incidents like this happen frequently every day.

All this shows how valuable a people’s self-government is. The anti-Kurdish events briefly pointed out above are not found in the Kurdistan Regional Government area, Hewler, Sulaimaniye and Duhok. Because around here, the Kurdish Public Security Forces are preventing possible incidents. Because around here, the people of Kurd, for all their shortcomings, are self-ruled.  Anti-Kurdish incidents are frequent in Baghdad or areas torn from Kurdistan, as there are no Kurdish Public Security Forces, and iraqi police have taken a negative stance against the Kurdistans. Despite all the negotiations between Baghdad and Hewler, it is known that the peshmerga have not yet been able to return to areas torn from Kurdistan. This means that Baghdad is sloping this process.

Baghdad is both fending off the return of the peshmerga to these areas, and anti-Kurdish operations are taking place in front of iraqi police and Iraqi commanders. In response to the attacks, no effort is being made to protect the Kurds. Mustafa Kazimi, as Prime Minister, can be said to have good intentions against the Kurds. But it also does not see the government’s in control of the militia forces. Baghdad, Kurdistan Democratic Party building, Kurdistan Flag, burning, with the knowledge, encouragement of a commander, realization, iraqi security forces can not be kept out of attention. This is necessary for the Kurds to self-rule. That’s how the Iraqi Kurds run it.

 The burning of the Kurdistan Flag, the KDP offices, the design of killings against Kurdistan in areas torn from Kurdistan and in cities such as Baghdad are indicators of hatred for the Kurdistans. In other parts of Kurdistan, it is well known that similar processes are being kept in place. In southwestern Kurdistan, in Rojava, in areas such as Afrin and Serekanî, Turkish-controlled SMO forces continue to slaughter the same operations, massacres, kidnappings, abducted Kurds with torture against the Kurdistans. Turkey and Syria have been working together to block the autonomy that is being established in Rojava, even though there are two adversity forces that have opposed each other since the start of the civil war in Syria since 2011.

The main reason for these processes is the division, fragmentation and sharing of Kurdistan, Kurdistan, during the Period of the League of Nations in the 1920s. After the First World War, in the Near East, in the Middle East, i think this is the most important process. Britain, France, Iraq, Iran, Turkey, Syria are very closely involved. It is well known that kurdistan and some of the Kurdistans are in the Soviet Union/Russia, in the Caucasus.

It is clear that this process, which does not give any status to Kurdistan/Kurdistan, was further strengthened by the anti-Kurdish world order, after World War II, in 1945, during the United Nations. Therefore, this Kurdistan/Kurdistan issue should be the problem of the United Nations in the first place. All peoples have the right to self-rule, to determine their own future. Of course, it is important to oppose the efforts of others, the Kurdish people, to determine the future of Kurdistan. It is fundamentally contrary to the basic philosophy of the United Nations that a nation should be kept united by police and military power, oppression, torture. In this regard, of course, the results of the 25 September 2017 Independence Referendum should be a strong guide.

It is well known that the Hashemi Shabi is an anti-Kurdish, anti-Kurdistan force. It was organized within the Iraqi Arabs, within the Iraqi Shiites. It is also known to be organized by Iran. The Hashemi Shabi, in the beginning, is fighting against the Kurdistans/Kurdistan.  In an area like Şengal, it is undoubtedly anti-Kurdish for the PKK/KCK to take positions against the Kurdistan government, especially the KDP, in cooperation with the Hashemi Shabi. Sengal is, of course, Kurdistan territory. Sengal is one of the areas torn from Kurdistan. It is obviously an anti-Kurdish attitude to try to cut off this Kurdish land from Kurdistan and connect it to Iraq. Until the mid-1970s, in Sengal, there were no Arabs, no Arab families. The arab appearance in Sengal began with the rule of Saddam Hussein.

In the 1920s, during the League of Nations, Kurdistan/Kurdistan was divided, fragmented, shared. Today, an important part of the war in the Near East, in the Middle East, in my opinion, is also about the sharing of The Kurd territory. However, according to the 1920s, the most important difference today is that the Kurds are now trying to own their own land, Kurdistan themselves.

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