The PKK, which mobilized in 1979 with the aim of founding an independent Kurdistan, has today begun to withdraw after striking a direct deal with the fascist, murderous Turkish state—a move with no meaning and no gain. Forget founding Kurdistan; in that country you still cannot even speak of the Kurdish name and language, and we remain treated as foreign and unrecognized.
I will never forgive those who did this injustice to us, because we supported the very existence of the PKK—against everyone—in the hope of founding Kurdistan, building our own country, and freeing ourselves from other exploiters. We gave everything we could, materially and morally, each of us as Kurdish nationalists and Kurdistan dreamers. Yet today Öcalan, a PRISONER in the hands of the Turkish state, with inconsistent statements of unknown purpose that openly align with the killers, has ordered the dissolution of the PKK, and they are carrying out these inconsistent directives to the letter.
I have thousands of questions now. It feels as if the PKK is sacrificing us Kurds solely to keep the murderer Erdoğan in his seat. In a reality with no justice, no humanity, where people live under poverty, hunger, denial, and exploitation, the PKK is dropping the unwavering support it received from us for years into the lap of the Turkish state and wants us to forget the oppression we lived, the silencing, the assimilation policies, the discrimination and othering, and to “democratize” the fascist, blood-stained Turkish state. This is nothing but sacrificing itself to another state.
You PKK cadres—living comfortably in Europe, leaders feeding off the diaspora—will you really defend this to people’s faces without a blush, without shame? Weren’t we the ones marching in Europe shouting “Long live Kurdistan”? Weren’t we the ones criticizing Lausanne every year with protests? Weren’t we the ones declaring “Mother tongue is a human right”? And now, just so Öcalan’s last three to five years not be in isolation, will you offer the very identity of the entire Kurdish people to the Turkish state?
What was done to us in childhood was torture: dedicating one’s existence to the existence of a fascist race. And now are you dedicating the existence and future of the Kurdish people to the Turkish race, to an immoral, fascist, genocidal Turkish state—offering up the Kurds, Kurdish children, and Kurdish being? All these years, have we fought in vain with Turks who cannot speak without filth in their mouths, with those who discriminate against us, ignore us, and oppress us? Did we object to the torture inflicted on people by Erdoğan and the Turkish state for nothing? Today we have even turned our backs on those we called family because of our trust in the PKK, and now you have tied the people’s sacrifice and support to Öcalan’s future, handing over to the Turkish state the weapons you acquired with our backing.
Shame. Shame. I, and Kurdistanis like me, will never forget this officiousness, this meaningless, inconsistent stance of the PKK.
Long live the Kurdish people and Kurdistan’s independce...
Ünal Zeray

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