long live Kurdistan i die for Kurdistan the homeland of Kurds
yezidi is not an ethnic group they are kurds who have another religion call yezidi it is the oldest kurdish religion after Islam kurds converted to islam but a small group protected jezidism.they are not against kurdistan or kurds.

Secondly, if you’ve read any of mine or Curzon’s previous work, you’d know that both he and I do not support Armenia’s genocide claim. However, Turkey’s nationalist and often ridiculous responses to the issue (just visit the Army Museum in Istanbul) are what give it little credibility and likability on the issue.

Lastly, if you reread the post, you’ll note I did note foreign support for the PKK from other countries. Your response gives the impression you didn’t actually read what I wrote but instead just wanted to write your general thoughts on the matter.

Modern Turkey has an appalling history on minority rights whether they be Greek, Armenian or Kurdish. Indeed, the very fact that those three nationalities were/are actually the legitimate and indigenous inhabitants of Anatolia long before the Turks set foot in Asia minor only lends more weight to Turkish territorial fears. Add to that Turkey’s long denial of hte very existence of the Kurdish people, much less their rights.

The profound struggle of the Kurdish people for their freedom in Turkey has been subject to the most incredible psychological warfare and disinformation. It is this disinformation campaign that is the reason for most of the misunderstandings about the Kurdish Freedom Movement.

To read the story referred to would have the reader believe that the PKK is in disarray. There is another story in Zaman today that also qoutes from further Turkish intelligence ‘sources’ that the PKK are split down ethnic lines and there is infighting. The reality is that the Turkish establishment are shitting themselves as the Kurdish movement is at its strongest in history and they are desperately trying to position themselves as to any up and coming development. Many believe that a ‘solution’ to the Kurdish Question is not far off while others think not and despair at further deteriation of events.

We all wait with baited breath as the next few months are crucial.

This story could be buttering up the Turkish domestic audience to believe that the Turkish military have defeated the PKK and now Turkey should settle The Kurdish Question on its own terms.

Please feel free to browse my pages on The Kurdish Question.

Armenia and NK would have no interest in encouraging the PKK or Kurds in general. Armenians have no great affection for the Kurds who were the instruments of the Ottomans prior to and during the genocide and they have enough problems with their neighbours without aggravating the situation by bringing in the PKK. Also ASALA and other radical Armenian organizations have been inactive for over 20 years.

Finally, as you correctly point out, it is difficult to see what strategic geographic benefit it would be for the PKK to be located on the other side of Armenia from Turkey.

The region did have Kurds prior to the war but these were Muslims who fled. Armenia has a population of approximately 50,000 Yezidis who are split in their identity with some identifying as Kurds and others as a separate ethnicity. One Yezidi told me that though the Yezidis speak the Kurmandji dialect of Kurdish, the Kurds are Muslims and therefore the enemies of the Yezidis. During the Karabagh war Yezidis actually fought against Kurdish Muslims in Lachin and Kelbajar.

British journalist Onnik Krikorian has written several articles on the Yezidis of Armenia:
oneworld.blogsome.com/2007/11/22/armenias-divided-yezidis/

Ofcourse,I can find ten times more of the equivalent in Japan.