mardi, avril 25, 2006

Une visite qui s'impose EVDAL.COM

Si vous avez quelques minutes devant vous, venez vous perdre sur ce site magnifique, une des plus belles réalisations qu'il m'ait été donné de voir sur internet.

Evidemment, c'est en turc. Mais rien que pour les yeux le voyage vaut le coup...petite musique en arrière fond (restez assez longtemps pour entendre le Duduk résonner...), interface ludique avec la possibilité de jouer du saz en laissant la souris glisser sur les liens (et le tout en harmonique avec le fond sonore, quand même!)

Je ne suis pas chien et je vous offre les meilleurs links de ce site

La sonothèque, avec quelques 32 morceaux (temps de chargement = 0) en qualité parfaite...cliquez sur Sanatçi pour avoir les photos des artistes. Ah oui évidemment, c'est un site kurde, avais-je oublié de le préciser....Aynur Doğan (et oui "encore!"), Rojin, Sezen Aksu, Erkan Oğur...une très bonne introduction à un certain type de musique kurde et turque...

La galerie photo, un modèle du genre (déja on ne peut rien piquer, ce qui règle pas mal de problème)... fond sonore envoûtant (duduk) "Bir Yudum Kurdistan" Signifie "Une gorgée de Kurdistan"...découvrez les photos une à une ou utilisez l'option panorama en bas à droite...j'ai personnellement versé une larmiche devant la photo d'Hassankeyf (bah oui "j'y étais!")

L'artiste est Baran Fundermann, sur lequel je n'ai pas vraiment d'infos...

Le reste du site ne présentera que peud 'intérêt pour un non turcophone, mais je vous en prie faites un tour sur ce site exceptionnel!!!!!!!!!!!

lundi, avril 24, 2006

Fransa, Ya Sev Ya Terket!!!!!

En francais : la France soit tu l'aimes soit tu la quittes.

Il est rigolo Sarkozy parfois. En France on ne rigole que parce qu'il vient de piquer le slogan du MPF de De Villiers, ou de le paraphraser minablement c'est selon, avec son beau "si certains n'aiment pas la France, qu'ils ne se gênent pas pour la quitter". La ou je m'insurge, c'est quand je vois Philippe de Villiers hurler au scandale et au viol de copyright. Mais de qui se moque-t-on???

Soit tu l'aimes soit tu la quittes, c'est un copyright, une marque déposée, que dis-je, une marque de fabrique du fascisme turc gogolisant et archaique, du loup gris au crâne ras et au front bas, du bouffeur de tout ce qui ne rentre pas dans le rang et pète de travers par rapport à des principes sacro saints qu'Atatürk lui-même ne reconnaîtrait plus. YA SEV YA TERKET, j'ai du l'entendre deux ou trois fois, lors d'une anodine cérémonie orthodoxe au bord de la corne d'or, lors de l'exposition de photos des émeutes de 1955, on l'a entendu lors des conferences sur le genocide armenien et sur la question kurde...


Et il faut croire que ce sera un slogan de campagne pour la présidentielle francaise. J'éspère juste que quelqu'un aura la bonne idee de relever le fait que Sarkozy puise son inspiration a la fois dans le bon fascisme à la francaise bien de chez nous, mais aussi dans le fascisme etranger ET musulman. Si ça c'est pas de l'ouverture internationale!! Je rêve de le voir tenter de séduire la diaspora armenienne avec ca !

vendredi, avril 21, 2006

La stratégie du PKK fonctionne à merveille...

Petite absence sur ce blog due à un ras le bol général devant la dégradation de la situation au Kurdistan Turc...toutes mes excuses!

Apparemment ca c'est légèrement calmé, les émeutes sont terminées et le seul attentat ces derniers jours à eu lieu à Izmir (sans victimes). Le moins qu'on puisse dire en tous cas c'est que la statégie de chaos du PKK que j'ai cru bon de dénoncer sur kurdishmedia a atteint ses objectifs...voyez plutot!

Recep Tayip Erdogan est menacé par Devlet Bahçeli du MHP (extrême droite nationaliste) qui lui dit qu'il "sent le souffle du loup gris dans sa nuque" (berk, j'imagine l'haleine), et tente un virement à droit à coup de déclarations belliqueuses, bombage de tourse et autres hérissements de moustaches menaçant pour les Kurdes.

50 membres et dirigeants du DTP sont en prison...ca sent les élections anticipées tout çà!

Une nouvelle loi anti-terroriste va être votée! D'après les journaux turcs, qui s'insurgent, elle annule de fait la plupart des réformes de code pénal qui ont eu lieu sous la pression de l'Europe...

L'armée turque vient d'annoncer (reuters) que 40 000 hommes supplémentaires étaient envoyés dans le "Sud-Est" à Hakkari afin de contrer les infiltrations de plus en plus nombreuses de PKK. Ce qui est très drole c'est que l'Officier qui fait cette déclaration annonce que "le PKK essaie d'envoyer près de la moitié de leur 4900 guerrileros en Irak Nord (Kurdistan Sud) attaquer les villes turques".

La ca devient très très fort. L'armée sait donc à 100 soldats près combien le PKK compte de troupes. Admettons: ca fait des années qu'ils parlent de 5000 membres, et ils ont bien du en dégommer une centaine ces derniers mois, simple arithmétique. Beaucoup plus fort, l'armée turque semble informée en temps réel des mouvements de troupes du PKK et des intentions de leurs dirigeants.

Mais foin de mauvais esprit! Le Kurdistan est à nouveau truffé de soldats, les Kurdes sous surveillance, la situation ultra-tendue, le nationalisme galope, le racisme anti-kurde ne peut qu'augmenter, les Kurdes de Turquie vont perdre toute la sympathie qui pouvait leur rester en Europe avec les attentats suicide qui vont peut être ensanglanter les centres touristiques...

Non vraiment bravo! Je suis content que le PKK ait "repris la lutte" parce que la démocratisation n'allait pas assez vite! Vraiment, j'ai bon espoir que ca aille beaucoup mieux maintenant!!!


lundi, avril 03, 2006

Réponse à mon article dans Kurdish Media

Turkey: strategy of chaos!
4/3/2006
KurdishMedia.com - By Goran Sadjadi
This article is not intended as a response to Thomas Jezequel’s “PKK: strategy of chaos”, but instead to provide readers with a balanced view of the situation in Northern Kurdistan.

The recent unrest in Diyarbakir, known as Amed to the Kurdish people, among other cities in the Kurdistan region of Turkey began when a large crowd of mourners refused to disperse after the funeral ceremonies of four of fourteen Kurdish guerilla fighters. The guerillas were killed on March 25th during a large Turkish military operation in the city of Mus. Since then, riots in Diyarbakir, Batman and other neighboring cities have led to the destruction of private and government properties, and a battle between Kurdish protestors hurling rocks and firebombs at Turkish police, and police firing aimless rounds at the crowds. The Turkish security forces continue to respond with violence, and as well as over 400 people have been injured in the events and eight people killed. Clearly, this kind of civil unrest does not gratify Turkish government officials in Ankara who are seeking EU membership for Turkey. However, with the use of the Turkish media and other sources at their will, the government has very easily turned these events into a blame-game and way to target elected Kurdish politicians in Turkey.

Recent events in Kurdistan have been fairly positive for the democratic progress of the legitimate Kurdish parties operating in Turkey’s government. Just prior to the unrest, Osman Baydemir, elected mayor of Diyarbakir, made a visit to the United States seeking help for the development of his city. The democratic progress and increasing support that Baydemir has been able to achieve has further agitated government officials in Ankara, as well as Turkish military heads, who are beginning to feel threatened by Baydemir’s pro-Kurdish stance after he made a public statement declaring that he will “continue to use Kurdish.” Baydemir was implying to peoples’ right to freedom of speech with this statement following a letter he sent to the Danish government asking them not to shut ROJ-TV down; a Kurdish satellite station suspected by the Turkish government to be funded by the outlawed Kurdish-separatist group, the PKK.

Despite the legitimacy of Osman Baydemir and the DTP, which includes membership of over thirty other Kurdish mayors in Turkey, Turkish officials and the media will stop at nothing to end their success. An investigation about the letter sent to the Danish government is already underway. And now, with focus on the violent unrest in Diyarbakir, it is unclear whether Turkish military objectives have gone as far as to physically harm the Kurdish mayor. These assumptions may be extreme but it was as equally as inordinate to learn that Osman Baydemir was harassed by the Turkish Special Team (anti-terror unit) while trying to make a public statement of peace to calm the agitated protestors. Some reports have claimed that Baydemir’s vehicle was attacked by the Turkish Special Team causing injury to his chauffeur. However, no one should be surprised by the actions of the Turkish military since it is still unclear how connected the democratic-seeking government and warmonger-military actually is, despite their claims.

Turkey has clearly incorporated a strategy of chaos, and not peace, in reaction to the recent protests. In response to the recent violence in Diyarbakir and the surrounding cities, the Turkish government has praised the security forces’ handling of the riots. This is despite the security forces’ negligent acts of shooting aimless rounds of bullets, which have resulted in the murders of two children in the midst of the protests. The Prime Minister of Turkey, Tayyip Erdogan, has gone even further by stating “The security forces will intervene against the pawns of terrorism, no matter if they are children or women.” This is opposite of Baydemir’s statement of peace.

The Turkish government has become extremely impatient with the PKK and the military has consequently ordered several key strikes against PKK camps. The killing of guerillas in a resistance combat should be expected. However, one must consider the facts that the recent operation was planned during the month of the Kurdish holiday, Newroz. Similar tactics were used by Saddam Hussein against the Kurdish rebels in Iraq as means of psychological damage. The Kurdish people are inclined to mourn at a time of the year when they should be celebrating. In addition, during the funeral of the guerilla fighters, the Turkish police attacked the crowds causing further agitation and unrest in the city. Local sources have claimed that the police have also blocked the emergency units in the hospitals for preventing the treatment of the injured protesters or have detained them under beatings prior to the completion of their treatments.

Certainly, all people will be blamed, whether partly or wholly responsible, whenever violence is used a method of making a point. One will question why there were children in the midst of a violent protest. However, the State must be required to respond to violence with peaceful tactics, rather than ones that provoke more chaos. Peaceful tactics are clearly something the Turkish security has proved they are incapable of in the past, or in the current events taking place in Kurdistan. Kurdish politicians should be very cautious of the Turkish government’s strategy and how these events will be used to tarnish the careers of Baydemir and other members of the DTP. Turkish prosecutors have already been ordered to begin building cases against the elected Kurdish officials despite the lack of proof of their affiliation with the protests. The lack of proof however should not be taken for granted, as many prosecutors have successfully issued the “separatist card” in Turkish courts as a means of evidence. The Turkish State must do a lot more in regards to their democratic reform if they wish to obtain EU membership. Allowing a language to be spoken that was previously outlawed, but barring it’s use from political institutions still, is not the democratic progress that will easily please Kurds in the country. The 60% unemployment rate, the homeless as a result of wrongful displacements, the limited educational institutions, and many other problems that need attention in the impoverished southeast Kurdish region of Turkey (Northern Kurdistan) are most important to the Kurdish people.

The only bold responses made by the Turkish government in regards to these issues have consisted of more violence and more political strategy in Kurdistan. One must ask whether the Turkish government has praised its security forces for maintaining peace, or if they praised them for carrying out a mini-war against the people of Diyarbakir and Batman.

Goran Sadjadi is an active member and President of the Kurdish American Youth Organization.

dimanche, avril 02, 2006

PKK: strategy of chaos

Publié sur kurdishmedia.com, la flemme de la traduire en français

PKK: strategy of chaos?
4/2/2006
KurdishMedia.com - by T ***
It has been obvious, since January 2004 and the clash between Osman Öcalan and Murat Karayilan, that the warmonger wing of the PKK had taken control of the party.

Increasing fights in 2005, targeted murders against members of the PWD, and blind bomb attacks in Kurdistan and in Western Turkey were a sign that the democratization of Turkey was not welcomed by the new leadership of PKK. TAK, who claimed the attacks against foreign tourists in Cesme and Kuşadası is said to be an “uncontrollable group” operating independently from the PKK. Funnily enough, it would probably be the first Kurdish group to achieve this: in the past every attempt to build a independent group or party, in Kurdistan, Turkey or Europe, was mercilessly crushed. There can only be one voice of the Kurds, and this voice is Öcalan’s. The idea of a TAK conducting bomb attacks against the will of PKK is thus hard to believe.

Here is an extract of an allegedly TAK e-mail sent to journalists

In everywhere of Turkey, the bombs will explode, the assassinations and sabotage actions will happen. We will not recognize any rule. Everything and everywhere are targets for us. We concentrate on the target, attack the target with revengeful spirit and we destroy it. We are calling about tourism.

It is one of the most important source which feet the dirty and special war, so it is one of the first targets that we will attack. We warn the foreign and native tourist to not go to the tourist areas in Turkey. We are not responsible for who will die in the actions that will happen in those areas. Turkey is not secure country and never will be. Because we are a people which have a risk of destruction and we are in a war.


In their last attack in Friday march 31st, the “target” of high importance on which they concentrated was apparently a rubbish bin in the Fatih Area of Istanbul. The vengeance’s victim was a simit sellor. Who knows if he was not Kurd? What exactly is the death of tourists or innocent civilians supposed to give to Kurds? Anti-Kurdish propaganda in Turkish press, justification of repressive policies, and undermining of the democratic reforms, genuinely or not realized since November 2002 in Turkey. Yes genuinely or not. Denouncing every progress realized by Turkey on the road to European accession as “cosmetic” and “hypocritical” is hard to understand. As if it was preferable to live under a convinced fascist regime than under an hypocritical democracy…of course, Turkey is reforming on European pressure and against the will of Kemalist fossils and every improvement is a harsh fight between government and military, intellectuals and civil servants, but the fact is that things changed and should keep changing.

But what would PKK gain from peace and democracy? This is the impossible equation of this party: it can only be important in a context of terror and chaos. Who can seriously believe that the new leadership decided to resume fighting because “democratization” was to slow, as if ambushes and bomb attacks had ever contributed to democracy in any country? The truth seems to be that a Kurd with a little new hope in the future tends to forget that he is first and foremost supposed to die for Apo. Numerous Guerilas fled PKK after Öcalan treason in 1999, some choosing to serve a few years in Turkish jail instead of staying in camps in South Kurdistan.

This says a lot. During a trip in South Kurdistan in august 2005 I met among PDK or PUK peshmergas ex-members of PKK who chose to place themselves under the protection of the south Kurdish parties, denounced as “feudal” or “tribal” by Öcalan…

If every right of Kurds are respected by Turkey, PKK role is over. It becomes a useless archaic party, unable to recruit and trying to prevent its last guerrillas to try to come back to a normal life. Every mention to democracy or human rights by PKK is an insult, as proved the execution of Kani Yilmaz. As a Kurd you just have no right to disagree with the line of the party.

What is Murat Karayilan saying in his March 27 declaration?

For years, the Turkish State has attacked the liberation struggle in different ways, notably by trying to find an alternative to its leadership. This was especially directed against Mr Abdullah Öcalan.

Translation: Turkish Bastards! They keep trying to find a solution outside PKK!

It is actually far from being true! Turkish State has always been very happy that PKK was the “only voice of Kurds”, it was too easy to gather the public opinion against the methods of this party and justifying every human right abuse, every act of torture, “unexplained disappearance” and unlawful execution by the struggle against “separatist terrorism”.

Let’s be honest: the emergence of a democratic Kurdish party, as HADEP was trying to be in its time would have been a catastrophe, for PKK like for the warmongers in Turkish Deep State: Anti EU and PKK have a common interest: war and oppression are for them a key to power, power they don’t want to lose. PKK stopped fighting in 1999 in the middle of one of the harshest period of repression against Kurds. The Ecevit government during 1999, ruling with MHP fascists was respecting the best tradition of Turkish fascism, negationism and fake belief that the Kurdish problem was only one of terrorism. PKK did not fight THIS Turkey in 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002. What did they do? They tried to recover from the stunning “my mother is a Turk, long live Atatürk” issued by Öcalan at his trial, denounced the Dersim Guerrila which wanted to keep on fighting, organised contradictory congresses, executed opponents…but didn’t fight against Turkey.

Now nobody in Kurdistan can hid his support to Mr Öcalan. Especially in Turkey, every Kurd has the right to say that he or she sees in Öcalan his leader and his political will. There is no need to hide what millions of people showed publicly.

Translation is easy! Just change “has the right” by “must” and “no need to hide” by “would better show”. PKK lost a lot of support among Kurds. Why did the rioters in Diyarbakir burn some (Kurdish) shops? Because these shops refused to close at the order of the PKK. So, lucky Kurds from north Kurdistan, you know what you will face if you do not genuinely show your support to Öcalan. PKK felt the Kurdish people slip from its hand, it is time to go back to business.

Not understanding the message delivered by Kurdish People will not in any case allow resolving the Kurdish question

Do we really need to translate there: PKK will not allow the Kurdish Question to be resolved without PKK. Better war, oppression, death, than a democratic society without PKK. Should we still think that PKK is fighting for Kurdistan? It is not for a long time fighting for independence anymore. It pretends to fight for Öcalan but in reality only use his name to justify its action. It is only fighting for itself, for keeping his grip on the society.

The riots happening in Kurdistan for a few days are a huge blow for Kurds.

They take place a few weeks after an historical Kurdish conference in Istanbul, immediately dubbed as “cosmetic” by PKK. They give weapons to the worse fascists among the Turkish military, in a context where they as well feel that they are losing their power. The “flag incident” last year gave a pretext to Turkish press to start a chauvinistic nationalist campaign against Kurds, after the burning of a Turkish flag by a few kids in Diyarbakir for Newroz 2005. The most ridiculous thing maybe is that the rioters are officially protesting against the death of PKK guerrilla in clashes with Turkish Army. As if you could chose to make war to a country and expect it not to retaliate: of course, in a war, people get killed. TAK’s bomb attack in Istanbul on Friday March 31st was supposed to be a “reprisal” for the killing of 14 PKK members. Courageous enough: the army kills some guerrillas; let’s kill some civilians as retaliation.

PKK strategy looks like they want a “palestinalisation” of the conflict: bloody riots, bomb attacks against civilian targets for “reprisal”, and kids killed in protests, immediately given the rank of martyrs. This is exactly what North Kurdistan needs: Repression, violence, a new state of emergency and new Shehids.

How sad is it that the only hope can come from Turkish State! Will they be clever enough to avoid a blind repression, will they keep on their reforms now that PKK is trying to prove them how wrong they were to reform… Fifteen years ago, the same riots in Cizre provoked the death of more than one hundred people: the methods seem to have changed, but for how long will the response of the State be so relatively “moderate” compared to its usual standards?

DTP position is courageous: Osman Baydemir called for peace and asked the rioters to go home. He should be denounced as a “fascist traitor” or a “Turkish agent” very soon.