Hey Spiked
dit kwam ik tegen op reddit:
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"I KNOW I will get downvoted to hell, but I don't care, heres my rant:
I am Iraqi Turkman. I am from Northern Iraq, more specifically, Kirkuk. Kirkuk is a massively debated city for both the Kurds and Turkmen. The Kurds claim it as their capital, and the Turkmen as their own.
Here is what I feel, makes the Kurds the BIGGEST hypocrites of all. The Kurds are flooding the city of Kirkuk. The Regional Kurdish Government is giving Kurdish villagers money to move to Kirkuk and occupy plots of land 'given' to them by the regional government.
Whos land is this? Not theirs. These Kurds come, and build homes on the land and will not leave and threaten violence against the land owners if they try to take them off. How do I know this? I experienced it first hand.. alot.
My father and my family in general is rather rich in Iraq. We own alot of land allotments, stores and houses. We got a call that a house was being built on one of our peices of land by a nieghbour and we went and checked it out. Nonetheless, there was a Kurd, weairng his Kurdish traditional outfit, building on our land. We were unarmed, he had a AK47. Nothing we can do. We got a court order, nothing. The police won't help, all the commanders are Kurdish.
The absolute VASTNESS of this is biblical. Everywhere you go you see shacks, homes being built on land that is not theres. A story here, a Turkmen whose home actually caught fire, built on a peice of land not his, and his 'home' was actually bombed (he wasn't there), shows the hypocrisy again.
Around the city of Kirkuk, all you see are yellow flags. Yellow being the Kurdish colour and light blue being the Turkmen colour. When I say around Kirkuk, I mean on official buildings, on street lamps. They act as if Kirkuk and Northern Iraq in general is just, Kurdish. Most services aren't availaible to you if your not Kurdish.
All in all, they're extremely horrible people (or atleast the ones I've met). Because I am a Turkmen, I was held up at multiple checkpoints. Back in 2008 when I was going to Iraq, I was driving when I got to a checkpoint, the Iraqi National Guard soldier started speaking to me in Kurdish, and mind you I don't know Kurdish, or Arabic. I told him I don't know Kurdish.. in Kurdish (one of the few things I know how to say) and he was about to get me out of the car until I started speaking English. At which point he waved me through. I shit you not.
The Kurds aren't what the media displays them to be, give me a news team and I'll show you the side of Iraq that the media dosn't display. The fact that Kirkuk is the only violent city that isn't due to Insurgents rather Kurds vs Turkmens is a story itself.
Although don't get me wrong, I don't hate ALL the Kurds, I have Kurdish relatives, and they're all good people, one was actually a high ranking judge in Baghdad until he was assasinated last year. Its just the majority of the Kurds oppress the Turkmen and Arabs and then complain about the same thing happening to them."
wat vind je daarvan?