[news] Plight of Turkey's Kurds Ignored by West

[Resist!ca]

"The plight of the Kurdish people is one that has been in the news recently. Supporters of the War on Iraq are quick to point out that the Kurds, who suffered heavily under the rule of Saddam Hussein, are now better off. But you don't hear much....about the Kurds who live in Turkey - who have been victimised by widespread acts of State violence that include extra-judicial killings, torture, large-scale destruction of homes, forced evacuations, and the denial of basic human rights- such as the right to speak their own language or even call themselves Kurds....You see Turkey, as friends of the west, like Saudi Arabia and Israel, can do no wrong despite massive human rights abuses in their countries, while 'enemies' like Iran and Syria have the threat of military invasion never far away for behaving in much the same way but not towing the Western line."

URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/5/6/17597/38819