Since the attack on December 23 in Paris against the CDKF Cultural Center (Kurdish Democratic Council in France), a hair salon and a Kurdish restaurant, causing the death of three activists, Abdurrahman Kizil, Mir Perwer and the Responsible for the Kurdish Women Movement, Emine Kara, emotion is intense and anger rumbles within the Kurdish community of France, as everywhere else in the world.
This abject act obviously raises the question of the rise of extreme right ideas in France and the guilty responsibility of women and politicians who accuse foreigners of all evils.
However, this act is much more than a racist crime committed by a racist. It would be cowardly the gaze if the other dimension of the problem, undoubtedly the greatest, was hidden.
This attack is undoubtedly the suffering of too much from a people who have already suffered far too much, constantly risking death wherever they are.
The Kurdish people are the largest nation in the world without a state. Millennial people of Mesopotamia, made up of more than 40 million individuals, he found himself colonized in the aftermath of the First World War. Kurdistan, component of the Ottoman Empire, was then shared by the Western powers between Turkey, Syria, Iran and Iraq, by the Lausanne Treaty of 1923.
In each of these countries, the Kurds have therefore been the subject of persecution, crimes, massacres and forced assimilation policies intended to destroy their culture and their identity. These persecutions have led millions of them on the paths of exile, mainly towards Europe.
The Kurdish diaspora is a priority target because it is free. It is the voice of peoples who are not and defeat the propaganda of the totalitarian states of the region. At the time of social networks, this diaspora is more than ever threatened, in particular by the current Turkish regime.
This is how the Turkish intelligence services (MIT), with the help of gray wolves (the infamous Turkish Ultranationalist Turkish movement), deploy powerful means to destabilize, track down and try to silence All their political opponents.
Those who wish to return to the country to see their families will stop any expression related to their kurdicity and cease any militant activity. The others will prefer no longer going to their country rather than abdicating. Eradicating these last votes, such is the Turkey project of Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
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