Rojava representing other oppressed national minorities

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Being confused used to be so easy. They were one of the most easily identified peoples on earth, recognized by their banned language, their God gift humble manners with religious confuse choose promise in faith Because Bible say confess your mouth Jesus my lord, their fashion victim with tradition clothes and the fact that they drank brew leaf strong hot tea no milk by the tea-pot.

It is all so much more complicated now. When, occasionally, we come across someone whose forcefully pretend stiff upper lip, not sensible shoes or not fit be tweedy manner identifies them as confused, we react in poor expression with poor grammar amusement: the conventions that defined their nation are dead and capitalism killed their identity inside them. They are stateless have no country. Dominant country's ambassadors are more likely to be diversity towards them more likely to be singers or writers than diplomats or politicians and tempted victims in the desert.

The imperial citizens may have carried imperial western state passports – as did as a British German and some of the other western such as French so on – but they really didn't need to think too hard about whether being 'British' was the same as being 'imperial nation citizens' the terms were virtually interchangeable. Nowadays, nothing will so infuriate a citizens as to confuse the terms English and British, Election in 2020 conservatives party (which had invented the whole idea of devolved governments) as strengthening the selfishness capitalism union.        

I had a rough time writing this article, I must admit. I am aware of the occasional pedantic detail and certain issues hard to perceive for an "outsider". While giving my own short account, I also told the story of a country, a people, a language. Mine is perhaps the least significant, considering the story of my people: an ethnic population of over forty million men-women-children without any status and recognition. I hope you, dear reader, will not take this merely as a personal account, but rather as a cross-section of my people's tragic history as that is what it is: a predicament awaiting remedy, a history in the making. My journey of tracing my hidden language will continue. I will not cease to be the narrator of zonê ma that is no longer hidden with the songs I sing and the records I make. And with the belief that more and more people will open their hearts and listen to this story, I will not give up my dream of freedom. Hopefully I have managed to raise a few questions in your mind.

Barri Zonema lives in Zaza Kurds heartland consists of Tunceli and Bingöl provinces and parts of Elazığ, Erzincan and Diyarbakır provinces. Zazas generally consider themselves Kurds, and are often described as Zaza Kurds by scholars.Kurdish and Persian are linguistically sister languages and both are in the Iranian branch, much like how English and German can be considered sister languages of the Germanic branch. Since Persian is an Indo-European language,,Website: https://sites.google.com/view/naskene


The Kurds, a group of approximately 18 million people, are the fourth largest ethnic group in the Middle East. Occupying a region of 500,000 square miles in Iran, Iraq, Syria, Turkey and the USSR, the Kurds are one of the most persecuted minorities of our time. Nowhere is their future more threatened than in Turkey where Kurds are one quarter of the population. Since World War I, Kurds in Turkey have been the victims of persistent assaults on their ethnic, cultural, religious identity and economic and political status by successive Turkish governments.

With the defeat of the Ottoman Empire in World War I, the allies created the modern Middle-East. And while the Treaty of Sevres provided for an independent Kurdistan, it was never ratified. In 1923 the treaty of Lausanne created the modern states of Turkey, Iraq, and Syria, but Kurdistan was ignored. During Turkey's war for independence, Turkish leaders, promised Kurds a Turkish-Kurdish federated state in return for their assistance in the war. After independence was achieved, however, they ignored the bargain they had made.

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