Fehîm Işik writer: Kurds are the most powerful in Mid-east than ever before

On this day (24 July) in 1923, the victorious Allies of the First World War, primarily Britain and France, signed the Treaty of Lausanne with the Turkish government at the time, thereby settling Turkey's current map and Eastern European countries.

The Convention also divided Kurdistan's Kurdish homeland into four parts, governed by four authoritarian authorities, and the Kurdish situation changed, with the Kurdish situation in Bakur Kurdistan being the worst ever.

On this Convention and its consequences, and its impact on the peoples of Turkey and on the Kurdistan reality and the Kurdish popular movement, ANHA’s agency met with the Kurdish journalist Fehîm Işik.

Fahim Ishk said in this regard: "Yes, the Kurds in both Southern and Eastern Kurdistan have been subjected to extermination campaigns, but those regimes have not denied the existence of Kurds as the Turkish state now denies."

"After the Lausanne Convention, Turkey began the campaign of smelting and extermination against Kurds, while the Kurd refused to do so. In 1925, the Kurds, led by Sheikh Saeed, rose up and continued to rise up against Turkish policies until 1938 at the time of the Dersim uprising."

Fehîm Işik noted that after the suppression of the Dersim uprising, the Kurds were subjected to "great disappointment" and said, "We can say that the Turkish state won a victory in that era, and according to official statistics, more than 250 thousand Kurds were killed."

Noting that the Turkish state, after the crackdown the Dersim uprising, followed the policy of imposing Turkification against everyone in Turkey, and raised the slogan of all Turks, all Sunni Muslims and followers of the Hanafi doctrine only.

Referring to the policy of obliteration of the peoples pursued by the Turkish authorities at that time, Fehîm Işik said: "In the Lausanne Convention the existence of minorities was recognized in Turkey such as Syriacs, Armenians and Romans, but Turkey pursued a fiery policy against them. Regrettably, Turkey's minorities did not make a voice in that era until 1995. and continued to live at the mercy of the Turkish state, while after 1960 the Kurds raised their voice again in Turkey. and after Turkey witnessed several military coups d 'état in 1960 and 1970 and on 12 September 1980 there was a fascist coup d' état in Turkey, most importantly, after which the struggle of the Kurdish people in Bakur Kurdistan and Turkey did not cease. "

Turning to the emergence of the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) and its struggle in Bakur Kurdistan and Turkey, he said: "In 1984 the armed struggle began in Turkey under the leadership of the PKK. remarkably, the PKK uprising was not similar to previous Kurdish uprisings, but expanded rapidly and significantly affected the entire world.”

"The struggle of the PKK has strained the Turkish state. This resistance (the resistance of the PKK has reverberated to all parts of the earth. The Turkish state has been used for years and is still using the latest military and war techniques to eliminate the PKK, but it is collapsing in front of its ongoing resistance."

Speaking to the Turkish-Western relationship, Fehîm Işik said: "After the founding of the Turkish state and the Lausanne Convention, the Turkish state remained coherent with the help of Western countries, because Western countries strengthened their relations with the Turkish state, especially after the Soviet Revolution, where they wanted Turkey to serve as a barrier to the Soviet tide. Western states used Turkey for their own interests, so it was joined to NATO in 1950 ".

Without support from NATO and Western countries, Turkey would not have been able to pursue a policy of extermination.

Asserting that the Turkish state benefited from NATO and used its membership to fight the Kurds, Fehîm Işik said: "Without NATO's support and the Western states of Turkey they would not have been able to exercise a policy of extermination against the Kurds and other minorities present in Turkey."

He also noted that Western states and NATO had provided support and weapons to the Turkish state in order to withstand the Kurdish people's resistance: "After the July 19^th Revolution in Rojava, and the changes in the region, Turkey's governing authorities saw this as a danger to their presence, so they launched violent and barbaric attacks against Rojava, first through mercenaries and then directly intervened and occupied Afrin, then Tal-Abyed and Ras al-Ain, as part of the policy of hostility against the Kurdish people."

The main reason for the massive hostility of the Turkish state against Rojava is that the people of the region followed the line of leader Abdullah Ocalan and the nation's democratic philosophy. He said: "The people of the region (Kurds, Arabs and Syriacs) have had a terrible struggle against mercenaries and have been able to liberate all of them, but Western states, NATO, America and Russia have not moved in vis-à-vis Turkish occupation attacks on the contrary, which they supported as a result of their interests.

The Kurdish writer and journalist, Fehîm Işik, explained that the Tehran and Madrid meetings were meetings of the world's great powers, NATO, turning a blind eye to the crimes and dirtness of the Turkish state in order to bring it to its end, and said: "We can say that the NATO countries set their heads on Turkey in order to bring Sweden and Finland into the Alliance, and in Tehran, despite Turkey seeking approval for a new occupation offensive against Rojava and the disagreement of those gathered, they have received support from them for their policies against AANES and Rojava."

Fehîm Işik, stressed the need for the world to recognize that Kurds were now not in reply in 1923 and said: "During the announcement of the establishment of the Turkish state and the Lausanne Convention; the Kurds did not have force and there were no ten fighters in response, now they are the strongest force in the Middle East, standing up to the Turkish occupation attacks, which are the second most powerful force in NATO, and now they have a strong political influence worldwide. "

In conclusion, he stressed that Turkey will not be able to defeat Kurds, saying: "Yes, we can pay a heavy price, but Turkey will not be able to prevail over Kurds and peoples associated with Kurds of Arabs, Syriacs and Armenians."

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ANHA