What do you think about relationship between Turkey and kurds?

Answer 1

There is no problem between "Turkey" and kurds. There cannot be, since Turkey is a state in which the rights of different ethnic groups -nearly 50 different groups- are equally respected. If you watch the funerals of our martyrs, you can hear mothers lamenting for their martyrs in kurdish. There can be no better display of a united nation. Our kurdish citizens die to protect their/our country from the cowardly acts of the pkk terrorists. So you have to reword your question in order to receive a more satisfactory answer.

Answer 2

The citizens of Turkey, i.e. the Turkish, are composed of many different ethnicities, much like the people that call themselves American.

Kurds are part of the whole and are no different that me and my likes. They are subject to the same rules that govern the whole society.

On the other hand, the terrorist organization, PKK is a group that functions like a feudal tribe and tries to be important by playing the "Kurd card" in today's war torn Middle East. I hope one day they will understand that the individual rights (i.e. right live, right to have a decent life, right to have an education, etc.) of the kids they kidnapped or fooled into joining them are more important than the power grab of a handful of terrorist lords.

Answer 3

No problem between Turks and Kurds... There is problem between Turkey and PKK terrorists... Did you get the difference ?

Answer 4

I didn't hear any conflicts other than the PKK terrorists attacking Turkey.

Answer 5

GO Turkey! Take care of em

Answer 6

Read this letter by an Australian Diplomat published in The Australian Newspaper in response to another writer. Concentrate on the Kurdish and PKK issue you can get a copy of the letter if you like. It is quite articulate and self explanatory and I quote;-

Mr. George Karagiannakis's letter (2/6/94), making all sorts of incredible allegations against Turkey in regard to its domestic and foreign policies, should not be allowed to go unanswered.

It is not possible in the space of a few lines to answer all of his allegations. However, in fairness to the truth, the following points must be made:

The 'facts beyond credible dispute' to which he alludes are in fact based largely on fictions to justify unrealistic ambitions or failures in the past to achieve totally unrealistic goals.

Whilst it is true and sad that many Armenians lost their lives in their own bid for territory, what is not recognized is that the Armenians themselves inflicted as much damage as others in the hostilities of that time, goaded on by some Western powers for their own selfish and geopolitical objectives.

The Turks had no deliberate policy of genocide at any stage, only the removal of Armenians from the front line with Russia, where they were collaborating with the Ottoman Empire's enemies and were thus a threat to its security.

The Kurdish issue is more complex. Two points are relevant:

The PKK, like IRA, is a terrorist organization, SUPPORTED MATERIALLY BY THE GREEKS AND ARMENIANS, with the stated objective of destabilizing Turkey. It has so far assassinated over 10,000 people in Turkey. It has no justifiable claim to represent the Kurdish people.

Most Kurds are integrated into Turkish society. About one-third of the Turkish Parliament is of Kurdish origin. This illustrates the absence of discrimination.


As for Cyprus, if any genocide or ethnic cleansing has taken place, this has always been carried out by the Greeks. The abortive coup of 1974, organized by EOKA and Greek colonels, aimed at elimination of the Turkish Cypriots from the Island. Turkey intervened to protect them and prevent Enosis. Since that date, the island has been peaceful and free of bloodshed.

Turkey has consistently supported a fair and reasonable settlement on Cyprus, but one that gives the Turkish Cypriots a secure future and equal political and social status with the Greek Cypriots.

The real problem between Greece and Turkey is Greece's reluctance to give up its Megali idea, that is, the recovery of the territories occupied by the Byzantine Empire, which finally fell to the Turks in 1453. All the many conflicts between Greece and Turkey over the past two centuries have been initiated by Greece. Your correspondent's reference to bloodied Turkish history is therefore clearly wrong, except in the fact that in the past three Greek-initiated conflicts, the Turks gave the Greeks a severe hiding, which partly accounts for the large fall in numbers of Greeks in present-day Turkey.

Regarding persecution. the Ottomans had one of the most tolerant policies towards non-Turks of any empire of its day. The three communities of Jews, Greeks and Armenians were virtually autonomous within the empire.

P. F. Peters

Former Australian Ambassador to Turkey
(The Australian, June 9th, 1994)

As for Steve C That's a great idea I say we give the PKK California or Texas plenty of land there no one really uses any way.

Answer 7

Depends on what relationship you are talkin about

Answer 8

The PKK are fighting for a legitimate cause, but they are using terrorist means to accomplish it. The real answer is to grant the people of Kurdistan a homeland, but their own terrorism is counter-productive to any success, and might result in their movement being crushed.