THE KURDS AND THE IMAGINARY KURDISTAN

 MY OPINIONS ON THE HISTORICAL AND PRESENT SITUATION OF MUSLIMS IN THE CONTEXT OF THE KURDS AND THE IMAGINARY KURDISTAN ISSUE…

This issue of Kurdish people and the issue of KURDISTAN STATE are two complicated issues! 

Western crusader and imperialist states have occupied and colonized the entire Islamic world in the past. 

This occupation and colonization continued, on the average, for nearly two centuries and even more in certain areas and regions. 

They occupied and colonized the entire Arab lands from the Maghreb to the Mashriq, the vast Indian subcontinent, Indonesia, Malaysia, and the entire African continent from the early 18th century until the first quarter of the 20th century, and even some areas until the first half of the 20th century. 

They exploited all these countries to the core. 

They transferred all their underground and aboveground wealth and riches to Western Europe, that is, to their own countries.

Meanwhile, we must not forget how the North and South American continents were occupied, plundered, and exploited to the bone, for centuries, by those Crusader imperialists, that is, the Spanish, the Portuguese, the English, the French, the Dutch, and the Belgian states!

NATURE DOES NOT ACCEPT A VACUUM! 

In other words, in nature and in the world, every place that is left empty, that is not claimed, that is not protected, will inevitably be occupied, filled, seized, and owned by someone else! 

If a void arises, something/someone else will inevitably and immediately fill it.Imagine a land, a plot of soil, a country, a property….

If the owners of that land, that soil, that country, that property cannot properly keep it under their control and protect it, others, that is, foreigners, those coming from elsewhere, will occupy, possess, and exploit it to the fullest, and forever. Therefore, states, their people, and their societies must properly protect their own lands, their underground and aboveground resources. 

There's a saying in Turkiye : 

“A BIG FISH ALWAYS EATS A SMALL FISH!" 

And so, those who wield power, force, technology, and weapons always and invariably occupy the lands and countries of the weak and powerless, seizing their property and possessions. 

They also plunder, loot, and transfer all the underground and aboveground treasures and riches of the countries they occupy to their own countries.

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I BELIEVE WITH ALL MY HEART AND WITH ALL MY SCHOLARLY ACQUISITION THAT the Ottoman Empire, like all the other Muslim states and empires preceding to it, was OPENLY AN OPPRESSIVE EMPIRE.

Yes, the Ottoman Empire was OBVIOUSLY and TOTALLY AN EMPIRE OF OPPRESSION.

However, it did not exploit the countries it occupied, as the Western Crusader imperialist states had been doing for at least 200 years, nor did it practice CULTURAL IMPERIALISM, causing the indigenous peoples under its reign to forget even their own native languages. 

It did not force the indigenous peoples of the countries it governed for centuries to forget their native languages. 

It did not force them to abandon their religions and convert to Islam. 

It did not use force in this direction. Had it wished, it could have forced the Balkan and eastern European peoples it ruled for centuries (Serbs, Bulgarians, Croats, Macedonians, Montenegrins, Greeks, Romanians, Hungarians, and so on) to forget their own native languages ​​and to FORCEFULLY CONVERT THEM TO ISLAM. 

Because it possessed all the material and financial resources and military power to do so. 

But, it did not do it. 

What did the Western imperialist crusader states do? 

They did all the following: 

They MADE the peoples of North Africa they occupied (Moroccons, Tunisians, Algerians) FORGET their native languages, Arabic and Berber. They FORCED all the other Black peoples of Africa to learn English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, and Dutch and Flemish. 

They both exploited and also CHRISTIANIZED the peoples of all these countries. 

They also committed the same inhumane oppressions for centuries on the HUGE CONTINENTS of NORTH AND SOUTH AMERICA. They eradicated the indigenous peoples of those regions, made them forget their mother languages, and CHRISTIANIZED THEM ALL AT POINT OF THE SWORD. 

All of these are OBVIOUS FACTS that can never be denied. 

Yes, we should admit that the Ottoman Empire was also a CRUEL EMPIRE. 

However, the oppressions and cruilties of the Ottomans appear to be very innocent and civilized when compared to the inhuman oppressions and monstrosities of the crusader and imperialist westerner states!

The Russians who were originally Crusader imperialists, but later became Communist Imperialists, occupied the Central Asian Turkic countries (Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, Azerbaijan, Tajikistan) and exploited them for centuries. 

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They forcibly changed those peoples’ own alphabets and forced them to use Cyrillic alphabet. 

They FORCED them to learn the Russian language. 

They purposefully made them forget their own native languages. 

Similarly, imperialist China OCCUPIED EAST TURKESTAN (SİNJAN) forcefully and militarily, and this occupation still continues to this day.

Why have I made all these lengthy explanations? 

I did it so because :

The crusading imperialist Western powers, particularly England, France, and the United States, were determined to destroy the Ottoman Empire, which had ruled the vast regions in the Middle East, the North Africa, the Balkans and in Eastern Europe for centuries. 

In order to plunder and exploit all the underground and aboveground resources and fortunes of the Middle East and to achieve this goal, those crusader imperialist western states (especially the England, the France and the USA) did not hesitate to engage in all manners of immorality and dishonesty, and to devise all manner of intrigues. 

They sowed discord and hatred among the peoples of the Middle East. 

They incited the Arabs against the Ottomans and the Turks. 

They encouraged and incited them to rebel against the Ottomans with large monetary bribes, lavish gifts of gold and immense military supports with weapons and ammunitions. 

They also encouraged and incited the Christian and non-Muslim populations and minorities of this region to rebel against the Ottomans, using the very same tactics. 

The Ottoman Empire, unfortunately, could not withstand and resist the unending attacks of these Western imperialist powers, due to the terrible financial and economic difficulties it fell into, debts, military and technological inadequacies and backwardness, betrayals, treachery, hostilities and many other reasons. 

And, in the end, the Ottoman empire DECLINED AND TOOK ITS PLACE ON THE DUSTY SHELVES OF HISTORY!

And after destroying the Ottoman Empire, these Western Crusader Imperialists invaded and colonized the entire Middle East. 

Were they satisfied with that? 

No! They were never satisfied. 

Because they HAD a GOAL that had never faded or diminished for 1,000 years. 

What was this 1,000-year-long goal? 

It was this: 

The imperialist crusader Westerners NEVER FORGOT the historic defeat they suffered at the hands of Sultan Alp Arslan's army at the Battle of Manzikert in Anatolia in 1071! 

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Indeed, the purpose of the Crusades they launched in the Middle East was to expel forever the Muslims from these lands. 

Yes, they destroyed the Ottoman Empire, occupied all the Middle Eastern lands, and ravaged all their underground and surface resources like ravenous wolves. 

By encouraging to rebel against the Ottomans, they divided the stupid Arab leaders into forty pieces. 

These stupid Arab leaders and their poor following folks spreaded not only butter but also both butter and honey on their bread. 

And by installing cruel dictators who were their own puppets over each of the puppet Arab states, they turned these lands into subservient, convenient, and docile slaves.

Because the Crusader and imperialist Western states hate Islam, they also hate Muslims and Turks. Why? 

Because, ever since the victory at Manzikert in 1071, the Turks have made Anatolia their homeland and settled there forever. 

The Turks did not stop with that. 

They also established here one of the world's greatest empires, the Ottoman Empire. 

By conquering Constantinople in 1453, they destroyed Byzantium. And for over 600 years, they ruled the Middle East, the Mediterranean, the Balkans, and the Eastern Europe. They nearly conquered Vienna, too. But they failed. 

Had the Turks conquered Vienna, it would have been MUCH easier for Rome, the Vatican, and all of the Western Europe to fall into Turkish (i.e., Muslim) hands! 

Because of all these historical facts, the imperialist crusader Western states DO NOT LOVE Muslims and especially the Turks!

After these Western imperialist crusaders destroyed the Ottoman Empire and seized all the Middle Eastern lands and riches, they were still and by no means NOT satisfied. 

They immediately occupied Istanbul, the capital city of the Ottoman Empire, and also attempted to occupy the entire Anatolian peninsula. 

They even fragmented the Anatolian peninsula, attempting to establish an ARMENIAN STATE in Eastern Anatolia and a PONTIC GREEK STATE in the Eastern Black Sea region. 

In order to establish the Great Kingdom of Greece, they encouraged the Greeks to occupy Izmir and the entire Aegean Region (Western Anatolia). 

In other words, the Anatolian lands, that is, the commonly shared homeland of all Muslim Turks and Muslim Kurds for at least 1,000 years, were occupied by Western imperialist crusaders. 

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If it weren't for Mustafa Kemal Atatürk and his esteemed companions-in-arms, who organized all the indiginuous peoples of Anatolia, including Turks and Kurds, to establish a TOTALLY INDEPENDENT and SOVEREIGN Muslim Turkish State (i.e., the REPUBLIC OF TURKIYE) in Anatolia, and who initiated the NATIONAL STRUGGLE PROCESS and IMMEDIATELY AFTER IT, THE WAR OF INDEPENDENCE, and who led this life-and-death struggle, today's Anatolian lands would be ARMENIA and the GREECE. 

Consequently and inevitably, we, the Muslim Turks and the Muslim Kurds, would be the servants and slaves of the crusader and imperialist Western powers in our own homeland and on our own soil. 

This was the ultimate and historic goal of the crusader and imperialist Western powers. 

MUSTAFA KEMAL ATATÜRK and his close comrades-in-arms' victory in the War of Independence and the establishment of the fully independent Republic of Turkiye thwarted these imperialist crusader Westerners' ambitions. 

Thus, they always HATE ATATÜRK. 

In this context, they stopped at nothing to achieve their historical goals and ambitions. 

This time, they did to the Kurds what they had previously done to Arabs, Christians, and other non-Muslims of the region. 

In other words, by seducing and deceiving some of our Muslim Kurdish brothers, and by providing them with money, weapons, and ammunitions, they encouraged and incited them to rebel against the newly established Republic of Türkiye.

The sole aim of the imperialist crusader West, which deceived the Muslim Kurds with the dream of establishing an independent state of Kurdistan and provoked their rebellion, was to divide and weaken the newly established Republic of Turkiye. 

Because they did not want, and still do not want, a Muslim presence in Anatolia. 

Our all Muslim Kurdish brothers and sisters should know and never forget that the imperialist western powers will NEVER leave a Kurdistan established in Eastern Anatolia to its own devices and will never let such a Kurdish state prosper, develop and enjoy a total independence and sovereignty. 

Even if such a Kurdistan is established, they WILL install PUPPET AND DESPOT KURDISH LEADERS on that state who will serve to them as per their interests, just as they did with the Arab states they previously established... 

HAVE NO DOUBT ABOUT THIS...!

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Crusader imperialist Britain paved the way for the establishment of an Israeli state in Palestine and helped it establish in 1948. 

Since its founding, Israel has expanded its territory by continuously occupying surrounding Arab lands. 

The US and the UK which are the two worst crusader imperialist powers have consistently protected and supported Israel against the surrounding Arab states, providing it for long decades with unlimited support in every respect. 

Thanks to the unlimited and unconditional support of the US and the UK, Israel has spared no effort to gradually realize its Zionist imperial dreams (the dream of establishing the GREAT KINGDOM OF ISRAEL by seizing the so-called promised lands, which has been their dream for 2,500 years), and continues to do so. 

The imperialist crusader West, led by the US, fragmented Iraq and Syria within the scope of the GREAT MIDDLE EAST PROJECT, both to protect Zionist Israel and enable it to realize its Zionist imperial ambitions, and to re-divide and rule the Middle East according to their own imperial calculations, as they did after the World War I. 

They turned a blind eye to the formation of a puppet Kurdish federal state in northern Iraq. 

Now, they are laying the groundwork and infrastructure for another puppet Kurdish federal state in northern Syria, which they had already divided and partitioned. 

Zionist Israel is also not sitting idle, seeking to profit from this fragmentation and partitioning of Syria. 

Israel is providing all kinds of support to the separatist Kurds in the northern Syria. 

The ultimate goal of the imperialist crusader West and the imperialist Israel is to divide and disintegrate Turkey and Iran, along with the Arab states of the region. 

By creating puppet Kurdish federative structures in Northern Iraq and in Northern Syria, they are aiming to create an allience of puppet Kurdish federations that will serve to their interests. 

And, by separating the eastern and southeastern regions of Turkey from Turkey, and the southwestern region of Iran from Iran, they are aiming to create a puppet state of Kurdistan that will serve only to their imperial interests and ambitions forever. 

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This much personal commentary will suffice for now. 

I will endeavor to write more on this and similar topics in the coming days, God willing.

Abdullah Erdemli

Luzern - Switzerland

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