The co-presidency of the Executive Council of the Kurdistan Communities Union (KCK) pointed out in a statement that the Turkish state is not only hostile to the Kurdish people, but that its neo-Ottoman expansionist policy also threatens Arab countries. KCK called on the peoples of the Middle East to resist Turkish expansionism.

Full text of the KCK statement reads as follows:

"While the Turkish state wants to subject the Kurdish people to genocide in a region where humanity became a society for the first time, at the same time it is carrying out an attack to occupy the Ottoman Empire's territory and bring it under its rule. The attacks of its army on Syria, Iraq and Libya also threaten all other Arab countries. The ambition to occupy other countries, inherited from the Ottomans and their domination, has become the fundamental character of the Turkish state policy. The combination of the Ottoman domination culture with the nation-state mentality of a superior Turkishness makes the Turkish state a dangerous and aggressive power that threatens the peoples of the Middle East. It wants to cover up this policy and its attempt to subjugate the will of other peoples with an Islamic mask. Like no other government and no other state, it uses Islam as a means for his own dirty ambitions.

In all the places it occupies, it raises its flag, sets up Turkish schools and organises police and security forces under its command. In Syria, it is even introducing his own currency, thereby preparing the ground for annexation. The Islamic mask and proclamations of an alleged fight against terrorism are intended to conceal the attacks aimed at occupation and annexation. It makes its Syria and Iraq policy clear by calling Lausanne a failure. Its intervention in Libya is justified by the fact discourse it is their ancestral territory, which it has inherited and for which it is responsible. A genocide is wanted to be committed against the Kurds and Kurdistan is wanted to be turned into an expansion area for the Turkish nation. At the same time, the Turkish state also occupies territories of the Arab nation and wants to bring the areas within the old borders of the Ottoman Empire under the rule of the Turkish nation state.

Aggression, occupation and expansion

The Arab League has recognized these ambitions of the AKP/MHP government and has clearly adopted a stand against the attacks of the Turkish state on Iraq, Syria and Libya. It has emphasized that Turkey’s policy is about aggression, occupation and expansion. The attacks of the Turkish state on the Kurds have also been condemned by the Arab League. The former Egyptian Foreign Minister Amr Musa declared that Turkey is attacking Arab countries and is hostile to Arabs. Him denouncing the AKP/MHP policy is important. It is clear from the statements of the Arab League and Arab countries that they are aware of the Turkish state's objective. It is very important that they call for a common stand from the Arab League in order to obviate this policy. It is also important that the Arab League and Arab politicians and intellectuals protest against the Turkish state's attacks on the Kurdish people and we would like to thank them for this.

Genocidal mentality of the nation state

For over a hundred years, politics in the Middle East has divided and weakened especially the Arabs and the Kurds. It has become a fundamental policy of the international powers and regional forces like Turkey to ignore, break and divide and thus weaken the will of the Arab and Kurdish people and other peoples. The Turkish state, in particular, has never accepted that the Kurds and Arabs have their own will and are becoming stronger. And now it wants to establish the former dominion of the Ottoman Empire with its genocidal mentality of the nation state. The Kurdish genocide is a clear objective, but with its current mentality and politics, it wants to make Turkishness the ruling ethnic group in all occupied and annexed territories.

It is of great importance for the stability and peace in the Middle East that all peoples, countries and political forces in the region unite against the aggressive expansionist policy of the Turkish state. The Turkish state has become the bandit of the Middle East. Its attacks can only be repulsed by the unity, common will and struggle of the peoples. Once this banditry is pushed back, the whole Middle East can become a region of truly democratic values, peace and stability based on the fraternity and equality of the peoples.

Appeal to the peoples of the Middle East

The Turkish state is not only hostile to the Kurdish people. The genes that make up the character of the existing Turkish state are based on occupation, expansion, hegemony and genocide. No state, country or society should believe in the special war demagogy that the Turkish state uses for its purposes. As long as the existing mentality is not pushed back, the Turkish state will remain a hostile force towards the Kurds and other ethnic and religious communities, but also towards its own society and the peoples and countries of the region.

As Kurdish people, we will resist this genocidal system. We call on all peoples and countries of the Middle East to take a stand against the Turkish state's occupation and hegemonic policy, which is anchored in its nation-state mentality, and to fight to repulse its aggression.

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