Speculations about the PYD
The most attention-grabbing factor related to the protectiveness the West feels regarding Kobane is speculations about the PYD (Partiya Yekitiya Demokrat) ruling the Kurdish region in Syria. This manipulation, carried out especially by the Western media and some neocon writers, is sometimes deliberate and sometimes stems from a general lack of information. Consequently some factors about this issue that are known to very few people should be explained in details.
The PYD is an organization that has been established in 2003 and is an extension of the PKK. It was founded by the PKK members remaining in Syria after Öcalan and other PKK leaders had to leave Syria in 1998 as a result of the pressure applied by Turkey. The YPG is the PYD’s armed branch. Although the PYD has lately put on an imperialist mask, just as the PKK has, they are Leninists and communists just like the PKK. Abdullah Öcalan is the leader of both of those groups. In their official definitions, it is stated that they are a subsidiary organization of the PKK and that they regard Öcalan as their ideological leader and Kongra-GEL (the PKK's political organization) as the "highest legislative organ of the Kurdish People." As a matter of fact, in the second indictment that was prepared in 2012 within the scope of the investigation about the KCK, data about the PYD are given as well. (An investigation was started in Turkey in April 2009 about the KCK, which is known in Turkey as the urban wing of the PKK but which is actually the PKK's so-called state structuring. In the following pages of the book, details about the KCK are given.) In this indictment, it is stated that in April 2011, Öcalan sent a cooperation letter to Bashar al-Assad through his lawyers. In this letter, it was stated that in return for the administrative authority that would be given to the PYD in the north of the country, the organization would support the Assad regime.
Left, Militants from the YPG, the armed wing of the PYD Right, PYD joint leaders Salih Müslim and Asya Abdullah with posters of Öcalan |
In October 2014, the Mardin 2nd High Criminal Court sentenced a man brought to Turkey from Rojava, as a member of the YPG, to imprisonment on the offense of being a member of a "terror organization." With this verdict of the court, the PYD and the YPG, who were not on the terror list, were accepted officially as "terror organizations."
Indeed, Salih Müslim, the co-chairman of the PYD, holds his conferences under the posters of Öcalan, the co-chairwoman Asya Abdullah directs the PYD directly from the Qandil mountains, and the YPG militants carry pictures of Öcalan in their pockets and have them in their homes.
Retired Major General Armağan Kuloğlu states the following regarding this point:
The YPG is not a terror organization found as an independent terror organization. It is an extension of the PKK in the north of Syria. Once the conflicts in the north of Syria broke out, a Kurdish formation appeared in the north. The YPG has been established by the PKK as an organization ensuring the control of the region and governing the people there. It is an extension of the PKK, one under its command. Since the PKK is a terror organization, the YPG is a terror organization as well.
Those who seek to portray the PYD/YPG as independent of the PKK are either ignorant or else overlooking the true facts. YPG meetings are held to the accompaniment of posters of Öcalan, while YPG militants carry pictures of Öcalan in their pockets and in their homes and read books by Öcalan. |
Masoud Barzani, the President of the Iraqi Kurdistan Autonomous Region, accuses the PYD of seizing Rojava by force of arms with the cooperation of the Syrian government and constantly lambasts the anti-democratic practices of the PYD. Although Barzani says, "They are taking up arms with several ambiguous excuses every passing day... Unless free elections are held, no group has the right to impose itself on others. The real representative of Syrian Kurds is the Kurdish Supreme Committee,” the PKK pays no attention to these words. Barzani's following assertions are highly important and accurate; “The PYD broke the alliance we tried to form and started to pursue a policy in the region demanded only by itself. The PYD uninterruptedly continued its policies of taking the executives and the members of the Syrian Kurdistan Democratic Party into custody, arresting them, deporting them and attacking them and it is progressively widening such policies. Because of the PYD's monist approaches, a legitimate policy, a democratic system could not be established in the region. The situation in Rojava became even worse than the regions under the rule of the regime. Demands in Rojava, which lacks any political freedom, are being suppressed with violence; they want to rule the people of Rojava dictatorially.”
The facts voiced by the Commander of Peshmerga Major Muhammet Hasan, stating that the border region under the command of the PYD has been turned into a trading route and that the PYD is taking money from the people passing the border under the rubric of a customs tax, are important indicators showing how the PKK/PYD has made life miserable for Kurdish people living in that region.
Interestingly enough, the connection between the PKK and the PYD – a fact that has been known to almost all politicians up until now and is overtly expressed by the PYD – is being denied today by some individuals and countries for some reason.
Tankın üstünde PKK ve YPG militanları yanyana poz veriyor. |
It is clearly evident that many politicians and writers from the West are really unaware of the reality of the PYD in Syria. According to them, there are people of Kurdish ethnic origins in the Southeast of Turkey and the North of Syria and these people are merely freedom fighters. Because of this ignorance, they fail to understand the reason why Turkey reacts against these "freedom fighters" and why Turkey did not support terrorists who were presented as "Kurdish fighters" in the region during the Kobane protests. They vehemently accuse the Turkish government with "ethnic discrimination." All the more amazing, there are those who do the same thing even among politicians and writers in Turkey.
The truth of the matter is that those who fight against ISIL in Kobane are not "Kurdish fighters" or anything else but a terrorist group that is the extension of the PKK. The PKK is a treacherous terror organization that has made separatist propaganda for about 40 years in Turkey, attacked Turkey treacherously from behind and terrified our Kurdish citizens in particular and martyred tens of thousands of our soldiers. Asking Turkey to help such a terror organization in Kobane demands an extraordinary lack of consciousness or else, ulterior motives. The Turkish government would of course not help such a treacherous and perfidious terror organization, who has been shooting them from behind for decades and who try to divide our country. Turkey has already taken the innocent civilians living there under its protection. Those who are fighting against ISIL in Kobane are actually the very bunch that has been blatantly hostile to the Turkish people for over thirty years.
Certainly those who accuse Turkey of discrimination are not only those who lack information about this matter. Some intelligence officers, politicians and writers who are ready to do whatever needs to be done for a Kurdish state to be established in the region – even though they are very well aware of the true nature of the PYD – are frantically trying to use the situation there to their advantage. As a matter of fact, almost all of the mainstream media has been used to this end and European and American politicians have forwarded serious criticisms about this point against the Turkish government. The reason why Turkey did not help the terrorists from the YPG has been questioned numerous times, and Turkey has been placed under enormous pressure by an international dictatorship during this period. Right now, Turkey is probably the only country in the history of the world which is being questioned why it is not helping blood-guilty terrorists who've been killing its citizens for years. This extraordinarily weird situation has somehow never been voiced by anyone: Turkey has been made the target of a smear campaign, masterfully planned and implemented, especially by the international media oligarchy.
Let us state an important point here; in the Southeast of Turkey, the PKK has suppressed our brothers, particularly Kurds, for some four decades and the great majority of the people they've killed are Kurdish as well. The same situation is also valid for the Rojava region in the north of Syria. Our Kurdish brothers there have for years been crashed under the horrific persecution of the PYD, which is an extension of the PKK.
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