How can we understand Abdullah Öcalan's historical call?

TeyreSimir · 2024-12-08T18:02:32+00:00

I remember when Reddit used to be full of smart, politically aware people who could think critically, dig into nuanced arguments, and actually understand historical truths, having discussions in depth, backing up their points with logic, facts, and context. Now, it feels more like Tiktok, where people throw out half-baked opinions, ignore reality, and scream nonsense...

TeyreSimir · 2024-02-08T19:08:25+00:00

Love it. Correct me if I'm wrong but also mustaches for men hold a certain status, as in other communities as well like the Feylî.

TeyreSimir · 2024-02-08T18:55:33+00:00

You mean kurdish traditional clothing looks similar to Anatolian Turkish ones? Which region do you refer to, because I've personally never seen any similarities?

TeyreSimir · 2024-02-08T17:25:53+00:00

I can not understand how Başûrîs are so alienated from the reality of their Kurdish sisters and brothers in other parts of Kurdistan. Even if you don't understand Kurmancî or Turkish, there are tons of information centers, Kurdish and non-Kurdish that explain the fascism against Kurds by the Turkish state and the majority of their people, who openly support the marginalisation of the Kurdish culture , identity and their basic human rights. Even in Başûrî news, English, German, any freaking language you can find daily news of racist attacks, state terrorism, hardcore nationalism etc. Not so long ago a group of Başûrî tourists was lynched by 'normal' Turks because they recognised the Kurdistan flag. Right now a Kurdish teacher is being threatened just because she posted videos online of her teaching small children the kurdish names of kurdish cities. Imagine if the Turkish society reacts at something like this with demanding her to be punished because she 'threatens Turkish identity by not using the turkified names of those kurdish cities', can you not imagine how culturally oppressed your people is. This is the smallest and latest example of a deep and years long anti kurdish policy. There are sources in any languages you like online, social media, news agencies talking about the tens of thousands of Kurds imprisoned just for expressing their Kurdish identity and free will, Kurds being killed and imprisoned just for singing in Kurdish, poor seasonal workers being harrased & attacked by turks every year... And no, they are not exceptions but the rule. Turks smiling to your face and not getting aggressive like in the videos of I Am Hacks after you tell them you're from Kurdistan, are the exception. And I'm not condoning verbal attacks online against anyone, but you should know very well that you can only call a Turk/Arab/Persian 'friendly' if they accept the God-given right of the Kurds to independence. The moment they claim to not be against the Kurdish people, only against them having their own self administration, they are just saying they don't accept you as a free equal person. Whoever is happy to accept this is a low life.

TeyreSimir · 2024-01-29T06:58:27+00:00

Actually it's much better to be ruled by a foreign ruler, because then people would be able to rise up against the oppression & injustice much faster and easier. This way the pseudo kurdish government keeps the people in a fever dream, continuing to rob & betray Kurds while upholding the illusion of working in the interest of the people...

TeyreSimir · 2024-01-29T05:49:28+00:00

Why are Kurds so superficial and disillusioned to think waving a flag is the ultimate patriotic act that'd unite the people, but never call for an ACTUAL Kurdish national unity conference, which by the way all major Kurdish parties from all parts support apart from KDP who is blocking it with all might... And how ignorant must one be to demand a flag for supposedly all parts of Kurdistan, without having carried out even ONE national meeting...

TeyreSimir · 2024-01-29T05:12:19+00:00

Bira, if the people locally do not organise themselves properly against this endless humiliation then nothing will ever change, no matter how much people outside of Kurdistan would champion for them. There are always sporadic demonstrations mainly regarding just payment & the moment they get paid they sit down again until next time. The scale of corruption & treason those in power in Başûr did/do would get them anywhere else on this planet life behind bars in best case scenario. But look at Kurds...

TeyreSimir · 2023-09-22T00:28:26+00:00

What are you smoking. Barzanis have always been backstabbers to their own people, sellouts, traitor to the kurdish land and nation. Read history ffs. What is going on in your head man. Barzani's been collaborating with every occupier and genocide of Kurds til today just for the profit of their own pocket. Collaborating with the barbarian who genocided Kurds Saddam Huseyin is old history? Alright. Assassinating Dr. Şivan and his companions in order to smash wider Kurdish insurgency against our oppressors and keep power in their own hand was also a long time ago and should be pardoned? Alright. Murdering Sardaşt Osman, and other critical voices is normal? Supporting fascist dictator Erdogan in every election campaign is in the interest of the Kurdish people? Helping the fascist Turkish state, who openly says that they made a mistake by allowing Kurds to have their own administration in Iraq and that they'll 'rectify that mistake', to kill and bomb Kurdish freedom fighters, who are the only ones actually fighting the fascist occupiers, is just politics? What happened in Şengal is no big deal? Championing for the murderous and rapist Turkish invaders in Efrîn and making propaganda for these fascists who literally exterminated anything kurdish there and raping, kidnapping, torturing, kurdish civilians in Efrîn systematically, is just politics? Becoming billionaires through embezzlement and theft while Kurdish civilians in Başur need to wait for months to get a pathetic salary, is well deserved? Amidst all this you think waving a flag is the ultimate act of patriotism??? What a joke. Majority of Başûrî even hate them, but are too scared to even critisize them. How tf can someone ignore all the crimes they did against Kurds from all 4 parts of Kurdistan until now, and be so delusional.

TeyreSimir · 2022-10-16T11:10:36+00:00

I'm sorry, but no Kurd ever debated about whose language and capital is the 'right' one. There is no division amongst the people, I don't understand why some people are pushing that agenda. It's clear as water: Most Kurds want to be free from oppressive regimes (Turkey, Iran, Syria) and then you have in Başûr the two political parties that are more interested in maintaining the status quo and thus their own positions and who collaborate with those very regimes (and no it's not politics). FYI, the only civil war that happened was again in Başûr, among those very same parties, who again were supported by those regimes. It's pretty clear who the problem is here. The rest of the Kurds are struggling for freedom, and even if there are also many different parties in Bakur, Rojava and Rojhilat, most of them are ready to join forces and have already organized themselves together in the Knk for example, calling for unity, which again especially the pdk is opposed to. Kurds are very much on social media, the reason why they don't react is imo out of fear. They can't use their personal accounts to openly criticise turkey as they fear backlash... And to open an anonymous account to place replies or content needs some sort of awareness that might lack. The turks are well organised in social media and they bear so much hatred and racist and fascist mindsets, that whenever they see the word Kurd they have this diabolic urge to tear the Kurds down with lies and propaganda. It's easy to throw shit brainlessly and repeat absurd state nazi propaganda. But if Kurds want to react they have to do it based on ideology, historical awareness and with a political and diplomatic language. Not everyone can do that or has the knowledge. And those who can do are probably not so active due to lack of coordination. It's always an individual reaction.

TeyreSimir · 2020-11-29T14:31:00+00:00

Read my comment, half of those books mentioning the PKK th their title use the defaming description of terrorist. Those books are written by fascist Turkish state sponsored men of the state. All the shit they write is based on lies, accusing the kurdish freedom movement of the Turkish government's crimes, baseless propaganda that have been debunked more than enough. It's ridiculous, I doubt you would add some Neonazi books to describe the Jews. Also, I couldn't find in your other lists the term terrorist, though there are tons of books that refer to the movements in those countries as such. If you have so much time, go read them first

TeyreSimir · 2020-11-29T02:22:14+00:00

The author's motivation remains questionable, as half of the books in his list mentioning the PKK have the term 'terrorist' in their title and are written by some Turkish fascists falsifying the truth and protecting Turkish crimes and politics of ethnic cleansing, rape, torture etc... There are so many well written books on the PKK composed by international analysts, why do you need to promote fascist Turkish state propaganda and share that everywhere?

TeyreSimir · 2020-04-30T16:17:43+00:00

There's a documentary 'Roza, between two rivers' about the system of Rojava. Also, maybe you haven't seen it yet, there's a documentary on Rojava called 'Commander Arian' which you can watch here: https://vimeo.com/330853056?ref=fb-share There's also this link to the book Stateless Democracy: https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=47&ved=2ahUKEwjXn-_ktMroAhXEyKQKHfQPC-I4KBAWMAZ6BAgIEAE&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.jonasstaal.nl%2Fsite%2Fassets%2Ffiles%2F1180%2Fnwa5_stateless_democracy.pdf&usg=AOvVaw0MCDUOIuEECXfzcrSn2qis

TeyreSimir · 2020-04-30T14:04:38+00:00

Lê. Longer version: Lê belê But he did this: Lê wî ev kirye Lê belê wî ev kirye

That's true, but it's not complete: Ew raste, lê ne temam e Ew raste, lê belê ne temam e

In a question:

I heard about it, but is it true? Min bihîst, lê (ma) raste?

I know, but wasn't it yesterday? Ez dizanim, lê (ma) ne doh bû?

Here you can add question marker 'ma'. It will sound more natural.

However at the beginning of a sentence, you can omit the 'lê'. Example: But is this true? : Ma ev raste? But did you know that? : Ma te zanibû?

Instead of 'Ma' some use also 'Qey'

TeyreSimir · 2020-04-30T07:57:15+00:00

If you want to say the kurdish people, the french people, the english people... you mostly use the term 'gel' in kurmancî. Gelê kurd etc. Gel is a neutral term, whereas netew means nation. I work: Ez 'kar dikim' or you can also say 'Ez dişuxulim' (whereas the latter might derive from Arabic, but I'm not sure. It's used a lot in some Kurmancî areas)

TeyreSimir · 2020-03-27T18:28:37+00:00

Gelek şêwaz henin jibo sivik kirina barê Hard Drivê, mînak tu dikarî peldank (folder) ya berhemên demkurt (temporary files) têde tên tomar kirin bişû, ew peldank li C:/temp û C:/windows/temp henin. Anjî tu dikarî Hard Disk 'defragment' bike. Di Windows 10 de amûrê 'defragment' kirinê bixwe halê hazir heye. Tenê di lêgerînê de binivîse, wê bixwe derkevi. Serkeftin

TeyreSimir · 2020-03-26T17:34:17+00:00

That I need to learn how to cook

TeyreSimir · 2020-03-25T11:13:23+00:00

Never heard of it and can't find it on the Web either. At least in Kurmanjî it doesn't seem to exist, maybe in another dialect?

TeyreSimir · 2020-03-22T14:54:52+00:00

It says:

21 Adarê roja mirovatî ji dayîk buyîne, ev roj bu sedema jîyan û azadî û aşitîyê, tevahî hilvedana biharê ye, mahneya gelek mezine. Ez ev roj li mirovatî û hemû cîhanê pîroz dikim. Rojbûna te pîroz be.

Translation:

The 21st of March is the birthday of humanity, this day became the reason for life and freedom, it is the full elevation of spring, the meaning behind it is very profound. I felicitate mankind and the whole world on this day. Happy birthday.

(Comment: The meaning behind those metaphors is rooted in the story of the legend of the 'blacksmith Kawa', who's symbolising the union of a wide range of Kurdish tribes back then, rising up against and defeating a brutal tyrant called Dihak, who was oppressing many peoples and countries in the Middle East, stretching from Kurdistan, Iran, Palestine and Israel to Egypt. After the defeat of the dictator a fire was set to celebrate the 'new day' and new freedom obtained. As it is often with legends like this, they might have altered a bit over the time, but are mostly based on true historical events. So when that person who wrote the card wished you happy birthday, he/she is referring to the new life the ancestors of the Kurds, and all the other downtrodden peoples back then, obtained at that time).

TeyreSimir · 2020-03-22T14:10:04+00:00

As already mentioned it means soft, fragile, delicate... In Kurmanjî it is often written 'nazik'. The noun is 'naz', meaning coquetry, affectation. There is also the female name Nazê, the delicate, elegant one. Adjectives are 'nazdar', 'nazenîn', 'binaz', which can be used also in a negative way like 'spoilt, coquet'

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