Kurdish Clouds Over Darkening West Asia Horizon
Monday, 13 May 2013 09:28
By K.Gajendra Singh
Kurdish rebel leader Abdullah Ocalan “Those who control the present control the past”*
In 1969 when I was posted to Ankara , the word Kurd was almost a taboo in Turkey .Kurds were called mountainTurks. But the truth was brought home to me very vividly a few months after my arrival when after a long tour of the Black Sea coast including Samsun, Trabzon and cutting via Erzurum ( cold and gloomy) and Bingol ,I and family drove into Diyarbakir, with its black rock walls, the largest Kurdish city (although some people claim that Istanbul, a mega polis of 12 million, might have surpassed it in the number of Kurds). After installing my family in the hotel I came out to look for a restaurant. Lo! I was surrounded by five six young boys singing Kurdish songs and repeating ‘Kurdum, Kurdum ‘(I am a Kurd, in Turkish.)
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