Conspiracy Against Russia Motivates Ocalan's Imprisonment
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16/2/2016 12:00 AM
Abdullah Ocelan
Kaziwa Salih:
Was the Kurdish leader Abdulla Ocalan arrested because he was a terrorist or because he was leading a reformist/secular party? Why is a non-Islamic progressive movement in the Middle East disturbing the Western powers?
The Kurdish prisoner leader Abdulla Ocalan was arrested in 1999 in Nairobi with the aid of several Western countries and political institutions including the CIA cooperating with the Turkish National Intelligence Agency. Consequentially, Apo, as Kurdish people call him affectionately, has been incarcerated on the island of Imrali in the Sea of Marmara that has been guarded by hundreds of armed Turkish soldiers for 17 years, without adequate facilities, or allowance of visitation. He was sentenced to death. Turkey had rescinded the death penalty in order to gain admission to European Union membership. The only crime he was accused of was being the founder of the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), the largest and strongest secular or popular reformist party in the Middle East and possibly the world.
The political intrigue surrounding this international betrayal of Ocalan by mainstream media was pervasive. He was accused of being a terrorist. For the conspirators to legitimize this story line, they turned the freedom fighters who are currently fighting on the side of American and other Western armies against ISIS, into supposed terrorists. The Kurds have been experiencing genocide and related atrocities for almost a century, and more specifically since the 1980s the world has been witnessing the quiet mass killings of millions of Kurds in Turkey, Syria, Iraq and Iran. With some exception such as the Halabja chemical attacks, the extermination of Kurds has rarely been mentioned in the Western media. Never was this issue of interest in the political agenda of the international community. However, the party who confronted the Kurd's extermination in Turkey was labelled in the most outrageous ways and Western powers helped arrest its leader.
The foundation of Al Qaeda goes back to a long history of cold war CIA-alignments with extremist Islam in order to attack the interests of the former Soviet Union. The US considered the Middle Eastern nationalist and progressive movements as Soviet instruments for expanding its power in the area. The US worked on this aim during the 1980s extensively, not only in Afghanistan, but also in Iran, Egypt, Turkey, and Iraq: empowering the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt; in Iran, creating the Islamic state, as Khomeini was an American creation; In Turkey, it became the strongest supporter of Erdogan's Islamic movement and even created Islamic groups amongst the Kurdish society.
The Kurdish society, which was known as one of the more Marxist and also nationalistic societies in the Middle East, has several secular movements in the four parts of Kurdistan. In the beginning, the Southern part of Kurdistan was known for its strongest secular ideology. Thus, with the help of Saudi Arabia, Egypt's Brotherhood, Iran and with the cooperation of the US, a few Kurdish Islamic organizations were created, such as the Kurdistan Islamic Union and Kurdistan Islamic movement in the Southern part of Kurdistan during the 1980s. These groups were granted massive financial resources with an intent to affect the entire Kurdish society since the Kurds were going through a crucial time with the imposed atrocities of Saddam Hussein: genocide, poverty, political and economic crisis.
The American dream of reforming the Middle East to become an Islamic society that would intimidate the former Soviet Union and redistribute oil affluence was partially obstructed due to the existence of the PKK.
Following the establishment of Al-Qaida in Afghanistan, and foreshadowing the threat of Islamic terrorism, a great number of the nationalists, Marxists, non-Islamic individuals and groups in the Middle East (not only from amongst Kurdish society), joined the PKK, Ocalan's party. Consequently, the plot to uproot this party became a political priority. The idea to uproot the party seems to revolve around the expectation that arresting its leader would finish the entire party and especially if it were to be categorized as a terrorist organization. Besides arresting the leader, and the killings and displacements of its members using Saudi and American aid, Turkey created several Islamic extremist groups inside Turkey. Some of these groups were created in the Kurdish society to achieve two main aims: firstly, to work against the PKK and other Kurdish movements in order to create divisions among these Kurdish entities. Secondly, to brainwash the Kurdish people, who lived in severe poverty and under the yoke of Turkey, into abandoning their original ideology and adopting the radical ideology of Islam. In other words, the aim was to modify them from secular nationalist people into radical terrorists; perhaps to fit them into an already-created "useful idiot" terrorist label.
The emergence of ISIS, which is the successor of Al Qaeda, and the Kurds' move to immediately confront this atrocious organization proved to be a failure of US and its allied countries' policies. This failure confirms a malfunction in the aim to divide and conquer both the Kurdish question as well as their enemies in the Middle East. On the one hand, the US policy-makers now comprehend that religiosity and piety do not always comply with their interests. Additionally, already in 1997, a US Department of Defense report stated, "the data shows a strong correlation between US involvement abroad and an increase in terrorist attacks against the US" [3]. On the other hand, Turkish policy makers were shocked when they realized that the imprisonment of Ocalan not only reinforced the Kurds' belief in their quest, but it also created many other Ocalan(s): one example is Selahattin Demirtaş.
The frustration with the lack of results has again made Turkey turn to its true historical face and radical Islamic political games, which include the genocide of non-complying groups. Since the materialization of ISIS, Turkey has been reacting to the Kurds' strength with genocide and massacre; yet this has been called "counter-insurgency" by the Western media. The president of Turkey, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, is publicly perpetrating another Armenian genocide. A few times his agents have attempted Demirtaş' assassination with the help of ISIS. None of these events has occurred without the agreement of the US policy-makers, and again the rest of the world is watching silently, as they did during and following the Armenian genocide.
The US, on the one hand, considers the Kurds their strongest allies in their fight against ISIS. Yet, on the other hand, it is allied with Turkey in killing the Kurds and helping ISIS sell the stolen oil of Iraq that western authorities buy from Turkey. It is a desperate divide and conquer game bound to make the US hated by all parties involved. This also means that the Kurds again are becoming a victim of big political games of the West and the Middle East powers, especially the American neo-con politics stuck in cold war thinking where Turkey is to be of immense help in stopping Russia's progress in Syria. It is for this reason that the Western mainstream media is not properly or neutrally covering the current Kurdish genocide in Turkey.
Was the Kurdish leader Abdulla Ocalan arrested because he was a terrorist or because he was leading a reformist/secular party? Why is a non-Islamic progressive movement in the Middle East disturbing the Western powers?
The Kurdish prisoner leader Abdulla Ocalan was arrested in 1999 in Nairobi with the aid of several Western countries and political institutions including the CIA cooperating with the Turkish National Intelligence Agency. Consequentially, Apo, as Kurdish people call him affectionately, has been incarcerated on the island of Imrali in the Sea of Marmara that has been guarded by hundreds of armed Turkish soldiers for 17 years, without adequate facilities, or allowance of visitation. He was sentenced to death. Turkey had rescinded the death penalty in order to gain admission to European Union membership. The only crime he was accused of was being the founder of the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), the largest and strongest secular or popular reformist party in the Middle East and possibly the world.
The political intrigue surrounding this international betrayal of Ocalan by mainstream media was pervasive. He was accused of being a terrorist. For the conspirators to legitimize this story line, they turned the freedom fighters who are currently fighting on the side of American and other Western armies against ISIS, into supposed terrorists. The Kurds have been experiencing genocide and related atrocities for almost a century, and more specifically since the 1980s the world has been witnessing the quiet mass killings of millions of Kurds in Turkey, Syria, Iraq and Iran. With some exception such as the Halabja chemical attacks, the extermination of Kurds has rarely been mentioned in the Western media. Never was this issue of interest in the political agenda of the international community. However, the party who confronted the Kurd's extermination in Turkey was labelled in the most outrageous ways and Western powers helped arrest its leader.
To mischaracterize the true meaning of terrorist to enhance economic and political advantages is nothing new. Nonetheless, I argue that Ocalan's arrest was a part of a Middle East initiative under the supervision of the United States of America (US) during the 1980s against Russia. This 'encirclement' and confrontation started in Afghanistan.
During the 1980s, the US gave birth to Osama Bin Laden and constructed Al Qaeda to generate generations of terrorists and terrorist organizations. Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton [1] confessed in person that the US created and funded the terrorists they are fighting today. Former British Foreign Secretary, Robin Cook [2]. told the United Kingdom's House of Commons that al-Qaeda was unquestionably a product of the CIA and Western intelligence.The foundation of Al Qaeda goes back to a long history of cold war CIA-alignments with extremist Islam in order to attack the interests of the former Soviet Union. The US considered the Middle Eastern nationalist and progressive movements as Soviet instruments for expanding its power in the area. The US worked on this aim during the 1980s extensively, not only in Afghanistan, but also in Iran, Egypt, Turkey, and Iraq: empowering the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt; in Iran, creating the Islamic state, as Khomeini was an American creation; In Turkey, it became the strongest supporter of Erdogan's Islamic movement and even created Islamic groups amongst the Kurdish society.
The Kurdish society, which was known as one of the more Marxist and also nationalistic societies in the Middle East, has several secular movements in the four parts of Kurdistan. In the beginning, the Southern part of Kurdistan was known for its strongest secular ideology. Thus, with the help of Saudi Arabia, Egypt's Brotherhood, Iran and with the cooperation of the US, a few Kurdish Islamic organizations were created, such as the Kurdistan Islamic Union and Kurdistan Islamic movement in the Southern part of Kurdistan during the 1980s. These groups were granted massive financial resources with an intent to affect the entire Kurdish society since the Kurds were going through a crucial time with the imposed atrocities of Saddam Hussein: genocide, poverty, political and economic crisis.
The American dream of reforming the Middle East to become an Islamic society that would intimidate the former Soviet Union and redistribute oil affluence was partially obstructed due to the existence of the PKK.
Following the establishment of Al-Qaida in Afghanistan, and foreshadowing the threat of Islamic terrorism, a great number of the nationalists, Marxists, non-Islamic individuals and groups in the Middle East (not only from amongst Kurdish society), joined the PKK, Ocalan's party. Consequently, the plot to uproot this party became a political priority. The idea to uproot the party seems to revolve around the expectation that arresting its leader would finish the entire party and especially if it were to be categorized as a terrorist organization. Besides arresting the leader, and the killings and displacements of its members using Saudi and American aid, Turkey created several Islamic extremist groups inside Turkey. Some of these groups were created in the Kurdish society to achieve two main aims: firstly, to work against the PKK and other Kurdish movements in order to create divisions among these Kurdish entities. Secondly, to brainwash the Kurdish people, who lived in severe poverty and under the yoke of Turkey, into abandoning their original ideology and adopting the radical ideology of Islam. In other words, the aim was to modify them from secular nationalist people into radical terrorists; perhaps to fit them into an already-created "useful idiot" terrorist label.
The emergence of ISIS, which is the successor of Al Qaeda, and the Kurds' move to immediately confront this atrocious organization proved to be a failure of US and its allied countries' policies. This failure confirms a malfunction in the aim to divide and conquer both the Kurdish question as well as their enemies in the Middle East. On the one hand, the US policy-makers now comprehend that religiosity and piety do not always comply with their interests. Additionally, already in 1997, a US Department of Defense report stated, "the data shows a strong correlation between US involvement abroad and an increase in terrorist attacks against the US" [3]. On the other hand, Turkish policy makers were shocked when they realized that the imprisonment of Ocalan not only reinforced the Kurds' belief in their quest, but it also created many other Ocalan(s): one example is Selahattin Demirtaş.
The frustration with the lack of results has again made Turkey turn to its true historical face and radical Islamic political games, which include the genocide of non-complying groups. Since the materialization of ISIS, Turkey has been reacting to the Kurds' strength with genocide and massacre; yet this has been called "counter-insurgency" by the Western media. The president of Turkey, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, is publicly perpetrating another Armenian genocide. A few times his agents have attempted Demirtaş' assassination with the help of ISIS. None of these events has occurred without the agreement of the US policy-makers, and again the rest of the world is watching silently, as they did during and following the Armenian genocide.
The US, on the one hand, considers the Kurds their strongest allies in their fight against ISIS. Yet, on the other hand, it is allied with Turkey in killing the Kurds and helping ISIS sell the stolen oil of Iraq that western authorities buy from Turkey. It is a desperate divide and conquer game bound to make the US hated by all parties involved. This also means that the Kurds again are becoming a victim of big political games of the West and the Middle East powers, especially the American neo-con politics stuck in cold war thinking where Turkey is to be of immense help in stopping Russia's progress in Syria. It is for this reason that the Western mainstream media is not properly or neutrally covering the current Kurdish genocide in Turkey.
Russia historically has made wrong decisions when it created a state for the Armenians and left the Kurds to the British. They left the Kurds because they were thinking of creating a Christian state only, while about 70% of the Kurdish people were Muslims since the 7th century, as a result of forced Islamic conversions, and the other 30% of the population did not dare to disclose their religious belief. Thus, the Kurds became a victim, crushed between Western and Eastern ambitions; an undesirable nation for the West because it was Muslim; and an unreliable nation for the East because they would call them false Muslims. They have been used by the Western authorities as a business card for the mutual interests between West and East, and finally, they have been suffering since 1999 as a possible attack tool against Russia.
All in all, Abdulla Ocalan is now generally known as the Mandela of the Kurds and recognized as such by people of genuine goodwill around the world. He has received several international awards while he in prison; two of them are peace awards. In 2016 the South African Communist Party (SACP) has given Abdullah Öcalan a Special Recognition Award, SACP General Secretary Blade Nzimande recognized Abdullah Öcalan as "A revolutionary internationalist fighter and a symbol of the Kurdish freedom struggle"[5] In 2015 a prestigious international peace prize was provided for his social-political model, "Democratic Confederalism.[5] Although Western militants are fighting alongside the party he founded, namely the PKK against ISIS, they do not engage in any political disputation towards him. Now it is clear to Russia that the main motivation behind Western-Middle Eastern politics in the 1980s was part of the cold war plan that radical Islamism be constructed as a weapon to weaken Russia. It is time for Russia to be conscious that the same cold war politics against Russia also lies behind the imprisonment of Ocalan. In general, I conclude that the suffering Kurds in the North and West of Kurdistan (in Turkey and Syria) are the victims of the power struggle relations between the US and Russia. This power relationship aids the fascist agenda of Turkey to revive the history of the Ottoman empire, and the ever-present method of genocide.References:
[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WnLvzV9xAHA
[2] http://www.theguardian.com/uk/2005/jul/08/july7.development
[3]http://www.usviewer.com/news/internal/9369/When+Hilary+forget+the+history+deliberately!
[4] http://ekurd.net/mismas/articles/misc2012/7/turkey4027.htm
[5] http://www.telesurtv.net/english/news/Kurdish-PKK-Leader-Ocalan-Awarded-International-Peace-Prize-20151030-0032.html 
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