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Some relevant and informative quotes from books I personally own on Kurdish History, Kurds, and Kurdistan. pls read. #TurkeyInvadesKurdistan
Some relevant and informative quotes from books I personally own on Kurdish History, Kurds, and Kurdistan. pls read. #TurkeyInvadesKurdistan
“Turkey’s Kurds number 13-14 million, comprise one-half of all Kurds and 20% of Turkey. They’ve been brutally repressed both culturally &politically since the founding of the modern Turkish Republic in 1923.” #TurkeyInvadesKurdistan
A Thousand Sighs, A Thousand Revolts
A Thousand Sighs, A Thousand Revolts
“In the last 2 decades alone, Kurds have endured multiple aerial bombings, lethal chemical attacks, ruthless destruction of thousands of their villages, assassination of their leaders, killings & kidnappings, torture and inhumane prison conditions, crippling economic conditions-
banning of their language +culture, and deprivation of that most basic right of all: the right to call themselves #Kurds. This last violation occurred in Turkey, where Kurds were declared to be mountain Turks who’ve forgotten their language.”
#TurkeyInvadesKurdistan
#TurkeyInvadesKurdistan
“The worst people in the world are the Turks. They sent us to a camp near Mardin for 4 years. #TurkeyInvadesKurdistan
-400 people died in the first camp
-They tried to poison us with bread in the second
-Turkish soldiers hit the women
-And kicked the children like footballs
-400 people died in the first camp
-They tried to poison us with bread in the second
-Turkish soldiers hit the women
-And kicked the children like footballs
-but we couldn’t even come back
-Saddam gassed and destroyed 4000 #Kurdish villages
-More than 180,000 people disappeared
-How did we survice?
-God helped us.”
#TurkeyInvadesKurdistan
-Saddam gassed and destroyed 4000 #Kurdish villages
-More than 180,000 people disappeared
-How did we survice?
-God helped us.”
#TurkeyInvadesKurdistan
