@Hayman139664@LaskarisDvini@all_that_is_ash I do not have any affiliation with TRT Kurdi, I'm just saying that even it existing, however flawed it may be, is the Turkish state recognizing that Kurdish identity and language exists, a point which the person I was replying to was denying.
@Hayman139664@LaskarisDvini@all_that_is_ash Oh of course there is room for improvement. I just pointed it out that there actually are clauses about general minority rights in the Constitution and the laws. I am just kinda mad that people are telling me, a Kurd, that I am always oppressed, when really I do not feel like it.
@Hayman139664@LaskarisDvini@all_that_is_ash Would you expect the state to have ApoTV or BarzaniTV? The guy is literally saying that Turkish state doesn't recognize Kurdish identity or language. A channel like TRT Kurdi literally proves otherwise, however flawed it may be.
@LaskarisDvini@all_that_is_ash 1. If the state was constantly trying to destroy us since the 1920s, with periods where no foreign nation could have intervened, how come our identity still exists and we were able to retain cultural majorities in so many cities?
2. No course I took was sabotaged, even in Ankara
@LaskarisDvini@all_that_is_ash So the state should not have Kurdish TV channels? Or should every channel be Kurdish? It seems like you do not wish to be respected or tolerated as a minority but want greater autonomy. It is idiotic to expect a nation to grant such autonomy to its minorities.
@LaskarisDvini@all_that_is_ash 1. Then how come we weren't assimilated or destroyed?
2. Do you expect the constitution to be like "Article 11: Kurdish people exist and they have a language?" Do you expect for Kurmanji to be an official tounge?
@LaskarisDvini@all_that_is_ash Also there is literally state owned TV channels such as TRT Kurdi that have literal 24/7 Kurdish programs which don't even have Turkish subtitles.
@LaskarisDvini@all_that_is_ash 1. So? Is it really a great surpise that a newly forged reformist republic which was devastated by 10 years of war on all fronts that is trying to carve out a national identity be hostile towards separatist movements?
2. This is blatantly false.
@LaskarisDvini@all_that_is_ash You said the main issue was with the Republic, I simply refuted that. And I agree with the last part, so did the Republic - even if it took a while.
@LaskarisDvini@all_that_is_ash The roots of Kurdish nationalism predate the Republic by a few decades. Collaboration with the British predates the fall of the Ottomans. Even after the foundation of the Republic, the primary issue was Secularism for major Kurdish rebels - which put them at odds with Alevi Kurds
@LaskarisDvini@all_that_is_ash Were the Ottomans also trying to annihilate their culture and language? Did the Armenians seek to annihilate Kurdish culture and language? Don't tell me you think Ararat was the first secessionist uprising or mobilization
@LaskarisDvini@all_that_is_ash Still a secessionist rebellion? Should the Turks have given them flowers, gold bars, and white elephants and wished them luck on their merry adventure?
@Michael1498070@MOA_Official1 Did only the Turks massacre a lot of other nations while conquering? Also by that very same logic all that Greek, Armenian, Kurdish genocides are consistent with the frame of "we genocided them and they genocided us back afterwards," so they shouldn't cry about it?
@Michael1498070@MOA_Official1 They migrated there, just like the Bulgarians, Serbians, the Roma people, Hungarians (if you count Carpathia as a part of the Balkans), Germanic people etc.
By your own logic how did Indo-Europeans, famously a central asian group of people, appear in Europe?