Posted by R M O'Donnell on 11/15/44 11:41

"Ali Asker" <pasa_asker@kurdistan.kd> wrote in message
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> Thanks for the reply R M O'Donnell,
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> First, all my efforts did not paid off; Goran Kay came last in the voting
> by the British public :-)
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> When it comes to similarities between the Celtic culture and the Kurdish
> culture you may not believe it but it is a lot of similarities! As in the
> past when Celtic culture was denied and banned by the English occupiers
> (probably few centuries ago) Kurdish culture is also denied and banned by
> the occupying forces (Turkey, Iran, Syria and Saddam's Iraq)! Kurdish
> language is banned in Turkey, Kurdish identity is denied by the Turkish
> regime even though 20 million Kurds live in Turkey, Kurdish culture is
> restricted by the Turkish state (playing Kurdish music, writing Kurdish
> books, poems, dancing in the rhythm of Kurdish folk music could make you
> end up put you in jail for life)! The things that I mentioned here happen
> now in the edge of the Europe where the county called Turkey trying to get
> a membership to European Union.
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> The reason that I have asked for your support was to showing specially the
> Turks that Kurdish people exist and continue to exist even discriminative
> and racist policies of Turkish state and like a singer Goram Kay who is
> not shy to call himself Kurdish would have proved my point.
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> I guess we will have to find another way to struggle our just cause!
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> Please visit soc.culture.kurdish to understand what I mean.
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> Thank you
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Ali Askar,
I will visit soc.culture.kurdish soon in order to try to learn a little more
about about Kurdish stuff., I am a descendant of people from around the
Caucus myself but am probably closer to Borat Sagdiyev's mob than the Kurds.

The little that I have seen of Kudish music and dance did seem to have
something in common with the Irish equivilants. The modern repression of
Kurdish culture probably has a lot in common with the worst excesses of the
repression of Irish culture by Oliver Cromwell about 500 years ago.

I doubt if you could ever interest the British public in becoming Kurd
friendly, they probably have much less interest in things Kurdish than the
majority of people in Turkey or Iran. the only Kurd friendly thing about
Britian is that they do not have repressive laws against the Kurds that some
of the Kurds native countries do. All asking the British for support could
achieve is to encourage the British to repress Kurds as their own countries
do. I don't think that a non-European would have a lot of hope in the
Eurovision contest either, althought I have no idea about it really.

Many Kurds have found refuge in Australia but other middle-eastern
immigrants have been regarded as less than desirable newcomers here, in
recent years. This does not encourage locals to be very welcoming of Kurds
as well as other middle-easterners.

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