Kurds vs Turks
Kurdish lands, rich in natural resources, have always sustained and promoted a large population. While registering modest gains since the late 19th century, but particularly in the first decade of the 20th, Kurds lost demographic ground relative to neighboring ethnic groups. This was due as much to their less developed economy and health care system as it was to direct massacres, deportations, famines, etc. The total number of Kurds actually decreased in this period, while every other major ethnic group in the area boomed. Since the middle of the 1960s this negative demographic trend has reversed, and Kurds are steadily regaining the demographic position of importance that they traditionally held, representing 15% of the over-all population of the Middle East in Asia-a phenomenon common since at least the 4th millennium BC.Today Kurds are the fourth largest ethnic group in the Middle East, after the Arabs, Persians and Turks. Their largest concentrations are now respectively in Turkey (approx. 52% of all Kurds), Iran(25.5%), Iraq (16%), Syria (5%) and the CIS (1.5%). Barring a catastrophe, Kurds will become the third most populous ethnic group in the Middle East by the year 2000, displacing the Turks. F
After a four-day visit to Kurdish communities in Turkey, a leading Green spokeswoman, Angelika Beer, declared in an official party press release: Like Turkey, the U.S. government, whose involvement in Ocalan's capture was reported on Friday by The Los Angeles Times, considers Ocalan a terrorist. He leads the Kurdistan Workers Party, which has waged a violent A Dutch attorney for Kurdish rebel leader Abdullah Ocalan said her client will not get a fair trial in Turkey and none of his lawyers have been able to see him. In the past, delegations of Social Democrats and Greens had travelled to Turkey and Kurdistan. They drew attention to the war of destruction undertaken by the Turkish government against the Kurdish people and denounced the support given for this repression by the previous German government of Helmut Kohl. Here are just a few examples: Turkish sources close to the defense establishment said there was satisfaction in Ankara over the firm Israeli response in Berlin. "The Kurds made a big mistake there. Let this be a good lesson for them," one source in Ankara quoted Turkish defense sources as saying. In a statement to the Greek daily "Novima" published on Sunday, Oglo stated that Ocalan told him during their meeting on Thursday that the chairman of the former Greek secret intelligence sent him from Athens to Nairobi in order to be handed over. The defence team complained that Ocalan's detention by Turkey violated the European convention on human rights. He was seized lasts month in Kenya, where he had been holed up at the Greek embassy, and flown to Turkey to face trial for treason. "Not only has the European Court said Turkey must guarantee a fair trial, it has also said that Ocalan's lawyers, including his foreign lawyers, must be allowed unfettered access," Boehler said. The wrath of the Kurds amid persistent accusations that Israel helped Turkey track down Kurdish rebel leader Abdullah Ocalan, whether true or not, is the price Israel has to pay for its blossoming defense alliance with Ankara, experts say. "In Canada, the PKK began to form a notable presence in the early 1990s," the report says. "The PKK's development here has followed the pattern seen in Europe in the mid-1980s; the service believes the goal of the PKK in Canada is to gain control of the general Kurdish community for its own financial and strategic purpose."
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