İsmail Beşikci
In areas such as Şengal, Kirkuk, Tuzhurmatı, Xaneqin, which are torn from Kurdistan, attacks are taking place against Kurdistan and Kurdish families every day. On May 11, two Kurd farmers were kidnapped and killed in the village of Xaneqin Mehas. DAIs do not touch arab families in the village. Attacks are especially carried out on Kurd families. Along with these attacks, the plantations of the Kurds are also burned.
On May 12, DAIS also sleathed a Kurd family in their home in the village of Teferge in Xaneqi. Against these attacks, Iraqi security forces are not sensitive at all. In some places, these attacks take place in front of the Iraqi police. In these areas, of course, the peshmerga are the units that will ensure the safety of the Kurds. But Baghdad does not open the way for the peshmerga to return to these areas. But he’s also not sensitive about the security of the Kurds in the face of DAIs. This is a very big problem in the south of Kurdistan.
The return of the peshmerga to these areas is an issue long voiced by the Kurdistan government in Baghdad. Despite the Kurdistan government’s insistence on this issue, Baghdad has not yet made this return.
In 2019, in Kirkuk, again during the harvest season, the cultivated fields of Kurd farmers were being thru. These operations, which DAIS escalated against Kurdish farmers, were taking place in most places in front of iraqi police. The purpose of these harassment operations is to get the Kurds to leave the area. The operations are intended to smuggle the Kurds out of the area. As with Xaneqin, these harassment operations quickly and widely turn into massacres.
All this shows that the policy of Arabization of Kirkuk, which has been raised since Saddam Hussein, continues. The duties of the Kurds working in the administrative authorities in Kirkuk are being put to an end. Such operations happen frequently. Arabs, Turkmens are placed in the authorities evacuated from the kurds.
On May 10th, in Sengal, a report on the Eziz Kurds was also reported in the press. In Şengal, it was said that Hashemi Shabi troops had confiscated houses and lands belonging to the Azidis and put these houses and lands up for sale. There was also a photo on the news. The Azidi families have taken refuge in Mount Sengal. A family sheltered in a fire of the mountain, and another family took refuge in a nearby one. One ledge of the mountain separates the two families. Women, men, children, the elderly wait in the mountain. They don’t even have a tent. Of course, it is the peshmerga that will ensure the safety of the Yazidi Kurds in Şengal. But Baghdad is also preventing the peshmerga from return to Sengal. The Kurdistan government ignores your proposals.
Şengal is known to have taken over anti-Kurd forces such as Hashemi Shabi on the morning of October 16, 2017. Arab families supporting ISIS, after this operation, are beginning to flock to the region. In the region, the PKK’s co-operation with anti-Kurdish forces such as the Hashemi Shabi intensies the drama experienced by the Kurdistans.
On all these issues, the Kurdistan government needs to be more sensitive about these areas that have been cut off from Kurdistan. Ensuring the safety of Kurdistan residents in these areas, which have been cut off from Kurdistan, stands as a very important issue in front of the Kurdistan government.
Kurds having similar problems in Afrin. FSA groups and Arabs backed by Turkey are making great efforts to change Afrin’s population structure. In Afrin, kidnapping, theft, looting, torture, killing continue rapidly. On May 8, the press reported that 35 Kurd’s house was forcibly confiscated by armed elements. Harassment operations are underway to smuggle the kurds out of Afrin.
The press, dated May 12th, says the World Health Organization WHO has done 30 tons of medical assistance to the Autonomous Administration. The press, dated May 13, the Autonomous Administration’s statement that ‘we have not reached any assistance from who’.
Aid is probably being sent through the Syrian government. The government is not delivering these aid to the Kurdish, autonomous government. This shows how important it is to have a recognized status in international affairs.
Both the situation of the Yazidi Kurds and the developments in Afrin are the problems that the international community must closely monitor.
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