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Turkish Planes Reportedly Bombard Iraqi
Kurdistan With "Cluster Bombs"
28.7.2008
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July
28, 2008
Turkish planes have bombarded Qandil area in Iraqi
Kurdistan region with "cluster bombs" following
"Israeli spy planes' sorties over the area" in the
past week, Brussels-based Kurdish ROJ TV reported
Iranian Kurdistan Free Life Party (PJAK) as saying
on 27 July.
ROJ TV said that Turkish warplanes bombarded Qandil
area villages following Israeli spy planes' sorties
over the areas in the past week. The TV quoted a
PJAK statement as saying that the Turkish
bombardment had targeted the Qandil area villages of
Shinawe,www.ekurd.net
Surade, Maradu, Girdi
Sadr, Kani Chinar, Qandil highlands, Shahid Harun
and areas surrounding the village of Komtanan for an
hour and a half on the
night of 26-27 July,
causing great damage to the area.
From Qandil area, ROJ TV interviewed journalist
Sayyid Muhammad Saruchawayee, who said that "16 F-16
warplanes participated in the raids" in which "they
used cluster bombs", causing huge damage to farms,
water resources and roads in the region. |
Turkish warplanes bombed the bases of the Turkey's
separatist Kurdish PKK rebels in Iraqi Kurdistan
region |
Since
2004 the PJAK took up arms for self-rule in the
country's mainly Kurdistan province northwestern of
Iran (Iranian Kurdistan, Eastern Kurdistan). Half the members of PJAK
are women.
Originally published by ROJ TV, Brussels, in Kurdish
15:00, 27Jul 2008.
Copyright, respective author or news agency,
ROJ TV | BBC
** Kurds are not recognized as an official minority
in Turkey and are denied rights granted to other
minority groups. Under EU pressure, Turkey recently
granted Kurds limited rights for broadcasts and
education in the Kurdish language, but critics say
the measures do not go far enough.
The 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 over 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.
Turkey is home to 25 million ethnic Kurds, a
large Turkey's Kurdish community openly sympathise
with the Kurdish PKK for a Kurdish homeland in the
country's mainly Kurdish southeast of Turkey.
Before August 2002, the Turkish government placed
severe restrictions on the use of Kurdish language,
prohibiting the language in education and broadcast
media. The Kurdish alphabet is still not recognized
in Turkey, and use of the Kurdish letters X, W, Q
which do not exist in the Turkish alphabet has led
to judicial persecution in 2000 and 2003
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"
Southeastern Turkey:
North Kurdistan (
Kurdistan-Turkey)
wikipedia.
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