T. Belman. The Kurds have a greater right to be there than Turkey.
ERBIL, Kurdistan Region (Kurdistan24) – On Wednesday, the Russian Ambassador to the UN called on members of the Security Council to put pressure on Turkey so Kurds be included in the Syrian peace talk, held in Geneva.
The Russian news agency Russia Today (RT) said Russian UN Ambassador Vitaly Churkin stressed that Kurdish participation in Geneva is essential for the peace process in Syria to move on.
Churkin expressed concern that Western countries are unwilling to pressure Turkey, who repeatedly refused to allow Kurds to join the discussions, despite the fact that Kurds remain one of the most important elements of resistance to terrorism in Syria.
“Turkey opposed, absolutely irrationally, the participation of the Syrian Kurds in the talks. This way it is only prompting them towards ‘separatist sentiments.’ And this is what Ankara fears,” Churkin said.
“Regrettably, developments around our draft statement demonstrate that the United States and other Western members of the United Nations Security Council do not want to influence Ankara’s position,” Churkin said pointing out that it is regrettable as it is in no way promoting the talks.
In a previous interview with Kurdistan24, Saleh Muslim, the co-leader of the Syrian Kurdish Democratic Union Party (PYD), said, “Turkey’s only concern in Syria is the Kurds, instead of solving the dilema in the country. This intervention for selfish purposes hinders any efforts to find a solution to the crisis.”
Muslim in many other interviews confirmed that the Turkey’s intervention in the Syrian crisis aimed at stirring up nationalist and anti-Kurdish sentiment among the factions of the Syrian society.
On Wednesday, UN Syria envoy Staffan de Mistura opened the third round of peace talks in Geneva, with the Syrian government and opposition delegations involved.
While Syria’s Kurdish National Council (ENKS) is incorporated with the opposition delegation, PYD, which exercises wide influence over Kurdish areas in Syria, is still excluded from the peace talks.
I am prejudiced in favor of the Kurdish nation and their aspirations for a unified Kurdish state.
Having stated the above, I nevertheless remind that no nation among the many nations large and small around the world has any particular right to any piece of territory that they have not taken and held through wall. That is nothing more or less than the territorial imperative which applies to all organic matter, from microscopic-size microbes to the largest of the world’s human population.
And that rule surely applies to the State of Israel. You want to get your lands of 2000-3000 years ago restored to you? Then you can accomplish that solely by taking it away from others who now live on it. The land is yours only if you have the resourcefulness, courage, and implacable will to power that enables you to take it and hold onto it.
You say you cannot do that because it is unethical? Then remove yourselves from their lands, and return to the shtetls to which your meekness condemns you in perpetuity. Independent states exist only for those willing to kill in order to take the land from others and to keep them from taking it back from you.
Conquer or be conquered. That is the universal rule of life everywhere, irrespective of what they teach the children of liberals in the decaying schools of western civilization.
Arnold Harris, Outspeaker