Deputy PM says all rights of Kurds will be recognized

[thearabchildren]

Right now the Turkish media is pushing the "crisis" of Kurdish rebels defending themselves in court in their own language. These are the reforms of the AKP: Kurdish still offends media sensibilities. No trust for the AKP, no trust for the CHP. They know what the minimum they have to do for the Kurds is: Kurdish must be co-official with Turkish in Turkey, Kurdish children* must no longer be forced to say they are "proud to be Turks" (and probably change the name of the country too). This is what must be done. They refuse to do this, and expect Kurds to be overjoyed at occasional light statements from select members of the CHP and AKP, two parties whose leaderships have made clear their opposition to Kurds as a people (Kerdoğan with his racist statement in Colemêrg, the CHP with decades of anti-Kurdish nonsense going up to their present supposedly Kurdish leadership). None of this is nationalist in nature. The nationalists are free to make whatever demands they want and have them ignored or supported by the Kurdish people AFTER the Kemalist state meets these minimal demands. Why are these demands minimal from a non-nationalist perspective? Because they are the demands reasonable people have for the treatment of Turks outside of Turkey. To act otherwise is to insist on the inferiority of Kurds to Turks. Thank you.

*Those CHILDREN in prison in the Southeast must also be freed obviously, but this is not a national issue: The Kemalists must free all of their political prisoners.