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RACE and RELIGION
There are two ways to make someone accept the things that you do to him/her and don’t want those things to be done to you.
You either deceive them, or suppress them.
I don’t know a third way of doing this.
The Turks do the things to the Kurds that they don’t want to be done to them.
We tried to deceive them.
They did not buy it.
We tried to suppress them by force, with weapons and oppression.
They did not let it.
They rebelled 29 times (against us).
And their last rebellion has been going on for the last 25 years.
Many people died.
Actually, the problem is as complicated as it is said to be.
The Kurds want to be treated the way the Turks are treated.
It is that simple.
As much as I can see, the problem is with us, the Turks.
We don’t want to share (have the same) rights we have in this country with our “brother” Kurds that we want to deceive.
The behavior that should be analyzed is our behavior, why do we reject having equal rights with the people that we call our “brothers”.
What would happen if we were equal?
What would go wrong if we did not name them “you are Turks” by force; support their rights to have education in their mother tongue?
If we look at this problem from a religious point of view, maybe we will understand the Kurds better.
If the Christians had had a bigger population than the Muslims and had written, “citizens of this country are called Christians” in the constitution, would the Muslims have accepted it?
If it was said, “OK, you are Muslim, but your national identity is Christianity” would the Muslims have not rebelled?
Would they have said, “We are Christians” by force?
Don’t say, “Religion is different”.
People’s races, traditions and cultures are as “sacred” as their religions and beliefs are.
We are born with our race and religion.
In fact, you could change your religion, you could encounter someone who was Muslim and converted to Christianity, and someone who was Christian and converted to Islam, but you cannot change your race.
If we look at this from a religious person’s point of view, “race” is a characteristic that God gave to human beings without giving them, “the right to change it”.
You cannot give up your race.
You carry the characteristics of your race from birth to death.
Would you accept the treatment if you were being looked down upon as if you were inferior to the others and “insulted” because of a characteristic of you that “cannot be changed and cannot be given up”?
You would not, nobody would.
There is a race as Kurdish, and there is also a race as Turkish.
Lets first ask to the Muslims.
“Why would someone who was created by God be treated differently from someone else who was also created by God?”
Afterwards, lets ask to the nationalists who call themselves “leftists”.
“Why would one of the two races that were created by nature have to accept the other one’s superiority?”
The problem is not with the Kurds who are asking for equality, because it is their right both in God’s and in humans’ eyes, the problem is the fact that we don’t accept to be “equal” with them.
We don’t want to accept the ones that are not from our race, to be equal to us.
Is it not “racism”?
This is both a sin and a shameful act.
Why do we try to suppress other human beings just because we have an army and we are more in numbers than they are?
Candidly, I don’t understand why we have so much difficulty in saying that, “The Kurds and the Turks are equal”.
What is the logic behind saying, “The Kurds cannot have the rights that the Turks have”?
The Turks are not superior to the Kurds; they are just more in numbers.
Did you not get angry when the Muslims in Western Thrace, and the Turks in Bulgaria were being suppressed because “their numbers were less” (in terms of population)?
Now, why do you do the same things to our ”brothers”?
Why do you let thousands of children die, and thousands of mothers suffer in pain because of this?
Why is it so difficult for you to accept equality?
What does, “I can get education in my mother tongue, but you cannot, I could be associated with my own race, but you cannot” mean?
We are in an era, where people pride themselves on “what they do”, and not in an era where people pride themselves based on their race or religion, or see themselves superior to others because of their race or religion. Human beings are “individuals”, and the race and religion that they belong to only matter to them.
We are still in race-fight.
It should end now.
It is enough that so many children have died because of this stupidity.
