3 KURRDS IN WIRME'S TOWN COUNCIL

Poisoning the climate of Kurdish-Azerbaijani Turkish relation is doomed to failure .

I just happened to tune to the Gunaz TV a few days ago , before the “Towns and village council” elections in Iran.
The announcer was engaged in a telephone conversation with a caller, and they both were inciting Azerbaijani Turkish viewers against Kurds , on the occasion of the “Elections”. They were claiming people from Sine ( the Centre of Kordestan Province in Iran); a section of Eastern Kurdistan are on their way to Wirme [urmu in Azerbaijani Turkish] in order to cast their votes there and to win more votes for the Kurdish inhabitants of Wirme.
There are hardly words to find for describing this Big lie of GunAz TV. Time and again we have appealed to the democratically minded Azerbaijani Turkish compatriots to raise their voice of Protest against this heinous propaganda by GunAz .
It does not cost much to incite people against each other from overseas. This racist thugs
Can do that, But where are there the true strugglers of Azerbaijan-Turkish identity to say
Stop to cheap propaganda of GunAz TV against Kurds.
Let Kurdish and Azerbaijani Turkish people live in peace now!
The result of Town Council Elections in Wirme is known now. Out of 9 elected deputies three are Kurds , among them two Kurdish women.

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Keep your distance; Turkish government is told !

Turks told not to meddle in oil-rich Iraqi city
Associated Press December 10, 2006

Turkey renewed its frustration on Sunday with the Kurdish bid for dominationof Iraq's oil-rich northern city of Kirkuk, which lies on Iraq's volatileethnic fault lines between Arabs and Kurds.Mehmet Vecdi Gonul, Turkey's defense minister, said Kirkuk's future statuscarries major implications for Turkey and Iraq's other neighbors no matterwho controls the city and its surrounding oilfields. Gonul asked the IraqiShiite and Kurdish-led government not to impose an "unrealistic" future onKirkuk.But Iraq's Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari, an ethnic Kurd, warned Turkey not to meddle in "our Kirkuk.""You speak of Kirkuk as if it is a Turkish city," Zebari said told Gonul."These are matters for Iraq to decide."Turkey wants to prevent the city and its giant pool of underground oil from becoming an economic engine that could fund a bid by Iraqi Kurds forindependence, a move would threaten to draw Turkey, with its 15 millionKurds, into a regional war."We hope the natural resources of Kirkuk would be used by all groups in Iraqwithout discrimination," Gonul told the International Institute of StrategicStudies conference in the Bahraini capital.Kirkuk is an ancient city once part of the Ottoman Empire, with a largeminority of ethnic Turks as well as various Christians, Shiite and SunniArabs, Armenians and Assyrians.Since the U.S.-led invasion in 2003, Kurdish forces in northern Iraq haverallied to reverse what they claim to be an Arabization policy of SaddamHussein, which purged Kirkuk and other oil-rich areas of Kurds and replacedthem with Arab settlers.Thousands of Kurdish settlers from northern Iraq have flooded back intoKirkuk, colonizing the city's desert outskirts. Many believe the influx is abid to change the city's ethnic balance ahead of a 2007 census andreferendum that aims to decide whether Kirkuk will be annexed to Iraq'sautonomous Kurdistan region.The grim Iraq Study Group assessment issued in Washington last weekdescribed Kirkuk as a "powder keg" and recommends the referendum be delayed.Swedish Foreign Minister Carl Bildt warned those in favoring in thepartition of Iraq that they were treading on dangerous ground."Every partition is written in blood," Bildt told the security conference inBahrain. "The carnage we see today is only the beginning of the bloodshed wewill see if there is a partition."Gonul agreed, saying Iraq's fragmentation "will be the beginning of adisaster that will engulf the whole region."The International Institute of Strategic Studies conference has broughttogether some 200 security representatives from more than 20 countries,including Iran, Iraq and the United States.

Kerkuk is not a dangerous place for coexistence

Forces hostile to the peaceful coexistence of different cultures in Kerkuk side by side and in harmony, are at work to incite national hatred and ethnic strife in order
to curb the normalization of life in this Kurdistani city.
What the Kurds are saying and try to implement in Kerkuk is not against the interests of any nationality there on the contrary if the city is integrated with the federal region of Kurdistan the none Kurds can live in a much more secure live. Excluding Kerkuk from Kurdish federal region contribute to the sense of alienation within the majority of population who consider themselves as part and parcel of Kurdish people and Kurdistan region; which its population is predominately Kurdish.
The outsiders ,including the Turkish government instead of plots and hidden agenda must accept the will of local population, whether they are Kurds, Turkomans or Assyrians.
Kerkuk is part of Sothern Kurdistan with a multiethnic composition.

Hejar
14.12.2006

To Remember 21 AZER

Here is a scene of Celebrating 21 Azer in Tabriz

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LONG LIVE 21 AZER

LONG LIVE THE ANNIVERSSARY OF 21 AZER

Hail to the memory of Azerbaijan Democratic Republic

Today [12 December 2006] is the 61 anniversary of Azerbaijan Democratic Republic.
Although this democratic experience of Azerbaijani masses in Southern Azerbaijan was short lived , but without doubt, It should be considered as one of the milestones of symbolizing the democratic political identity of Azerbaijani Turkish people in Iran.
The friendship and cooperation between The Kurdish republic in Mahabad and Azerbaijani national government forged during their existence should be a reference to present situation of both peoples.
We convey our sincere congratulations to our Azerbaijani Turkish friends on this important occasion .

HANDING OVER A KURDISH JOURNALIST TO TURKISH AUTHORITIES BY REPUBLIC OF AZERBAIJAN IS A SHAME AND A BLOW TO FREE JOURNALISM !

Turkish Kurd Journalist Accused of Relations with PKK Extradited from Azerbaijan to Turkey
Kurd, Turkey (Trend Azerbaijan)

The journalist Elif Pelit accused by the law enforcement of Turkey of PKK was extradited from Azerbaijan to Turkey, the representative of the United Nations High Commissariat for Refugees in Azerbaijan William Tol informed Trend.
The employee of the “Mesopomiya” News Agency was detained in Nakchivan Autonomous Republic (NAR), when she tried to illegally pass through the Turkish-Azerbaijani border. Despite that the Court fined her the amount of $2,000 and then released her. She was arrested once again by the employees of the Azerbaijani Interior Ministry at the request of the Turkish law enforcement, forwarded to the Azerbaijani law-enforcement bodies in relation with the extradition of Elif Pelit. The journalist, Kurd by origin, is accused by the Turkish law-enforcement bodies of co-operating with the Kurdish rebel organization PKK. The Azerbaijani Court on Heinous Crimes made the decision in 2004 to deport Elif Pelit to Turkey. Elif Pelit complained about the decision to the higher authority that in 1994-1995, the investigation group opened a criminal case on the co-operation of Elif Pelit with PKK. But the case was annulled due to the absence of evidence. In addition, she is a recognized refugee under the 1951 Refugee Convention in Germany and is a German citizen. Only Germany may require her extradition from Azerbaijan. But the high court instances kept the decision of the initial court authority in force. The representative of the United Nations High Commissariat for Refugees in Azerbaijan also stressed that Elif Pelit’s extradition is contrary to the international conventions. “According to the Convention adopted in 1951, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, as German Embassy in Azerbaijan, appears with a position that Azerbaijan is a signatory to the 1951 Convention, which clearly states that refugees are not to be forcibly returned. In mid-October Ms. Pelit was deported to Turkey, which is in clear violation of Azerbaijan’s responsibility and obligations under this convention,” Tol concluded. More than 37,000 people have been killed since 1984 when the PKK took up arms for self-rule in the country's mainly Kurdish southeast of Turkey.trend azThe use of the term "Kurdistan" is vigorously rejected due to its alleged political implications by the Republic of Turkey, which does not recognize the existence of a "Turkish Kurdistan" Southeast Turkey. Others estimate as many as 40 million Kurds live in Big Kurdistan (Iraq, Turkey, Syria, Iran, Armenia), which covers an area as big as France, about half of all Kurds which estimate to 20 million live in Turkey.The Kurdish flag flown officially in Iraqi Kurdistan but unofficially flown by Kurds in Armenia. The flag is banned in Iran, Syria, and Turkey where flying it is a criminal offence"