A Kurdish MP from Ferhat Encu has openly defined the regime in Ankara and denied the legitimacy of the Turkish presence in Kurdistan. For that he was attacked by Turkish MP who threatened to shoot him on the spot. Listen for yourself:
As for the Turkish Parliament, it starts to look like the Ukrainian one:
Frankly, it is about time the all those who had to suffer from the Turkish imperial designs and megalomania (Kurds, Armenians, Greeks of course, but also Arabs, Persians, Russians, Bulgarians, Serbs and others) began to take the measures needed to deflate this wannabe empire to a manageable and civilized country.
The Saker
Thanks for showing it but it scares me. I hope it isn’t a preview of what lies in store for us. Where is the security? My security is in love but that doesn’t mean I don’t fear that this kind of thing will spread.
I wonder why this affects me so when I know there are millions dying of a worse fate. Maybe because it happens where I’d least expect it.
I live near a town of 8000. At the council meetings where I frequently speak there’s an armed policeman. I can’t believe violence would break out there but now I wonder just how thin the veneer of civilization is. It helps to talk about it.
Courage, Dennis. It is the same spirit that Love is made of. And the Will to ascend.
Did you notice that besides hatred (a form of fear) there was actually fear among many of the Turk MPs, who thought “This Kurd guy can’t possibly be alone, OMG, there must be more here, I’m taking cover!”
And they had to be calmed down by the clown with the gavel, who tried to give them courage by revealing his own hatred/fear, threatening the lone Kurd with 5 years, then 10, then a firing squad.
The Kurd ascended quite a bit,
And hundred of Turks had a s**t fit,
Jumping en masse into a lower pit.
Erdogan: If the shoe fits, wear it!
>Did you notice that besides hatred (a form of fear) there was actually fear among many of the Turk MPs, who thought “This Kurd guy can’t possibly be alone, OMG, there must be more here, I’m taking cover!”<
The fear of the unknown. Covers racism, much of the "supernatural" and aspects of religion. Also why US propaganda works to an extent.
Fear of the unknown. A natural instinct most animals have that is essential for survival of the species.
Whether given by god or evolution it is there. Curiosity killed the cat….
This Kurdish man is the definition of balls. Good for him and may God protect him.
I honor his courage. And despise the cowardliness in the Western Parliament MP’s and Congress persons that don’t have his courage. I also suspect his speech will be repaid by violence against him. And by silence from the World’s MSM. That sadly, is the World we have created for ourselves and our children.
About the size of it, old bean. Man, what a gutsy performance.
Well, if they do shove him in jail it seems he’ll have plenty of courageous journalists and so on to hang out with. Just hope he isn’t quietly killed.
He is alone. We are many here, we get him.
mmm…. time Russia went on a turkey shoot? The Brave Turks. He is alone. We are many.
Mob attitude where no individual in the mob has the has the guts to go it alone like this Kurd speaker.
Why is it called “Turkey?” It’s obvious! Poultry in a chicken run! The despicable scum need to get out occupied lands…along with their Ashkenazi scum brethren further south.
Bingo! They are khazars like their Ashkenazi Brethren. Note the the same cowardly mob behaviour.
Thanks for the post Saker. I read about what he said on line but this video gives a whole different meaning to not only what he said, but also to how and where he said it. This man writes another chapter in the book of Courage. May he be blessed.
Too bad he cant call an airstrike down on the lot of them…No, the Kurds will never go the way of the Turkish-Armenians and their voice will never be denied by History. He is correct.
So much horror in the world, and this video clip is the one that leads me closest to instantly bursting into tears. Because what are we, if we can no longer defend and maintain parliamentary democracy? Where is civilization, what is it, if we lose this? It’s under threat everywhere, isn’t it? God Bless this man, and God Bless the Kurds. And thank you for your comments, Saker.
I present him all the respect I can. He’ll pay dearly for that and proved that Turks are easier to scare than I used to believe.
It’s a high price for a truth. Let’s make it worth it !
This man has balls of steel that can be seen from google earth. Respect and love.
I hope that Ferhat Encu is ok, and all who saw this video must wonder of his current status.
It appears that the Turk Leadership is gathering for its destruction.
What a powerful video, and window into the cracking glass house of Turkey. I have repeatedly been surprised by the Turks’ ignorance of their own precarious situation. Erdogan and the AKP have set into motion a s**t storm that will only stop when the country fractures like humpty-dumpty.
The south east will to the Kurds and the race will be on for Armenia, Greece and Syria to reclaim their historical territories.
The cowardice of the Turkish MPs and their death threats at the mere mention of ‘Kurdistan’ make this inevitable.
Mr. Farhad Anjo deserves respect for his courage.
Some readers here do not deserve the same. Nothing glorious about threatening war from one’s desk at home.
Some unwise people call for war, as recklessly as jihadis or US senators. Calling for war on Turkey is as wise as proposing to solve the Syria war by going to war with Turkey and NATO.
Calling for partitioning Turkey between Greeks, Arabs, Kurds, and Armenians is as ridiculous and unwise as calling for the break-up of Russia.
“… Calling for partitioning Turkey between Greeks, Arabs, Kurds, and Armenians is as ridiculous and unwise as calling for the break-up of Russia. …”
It is absurd to use Russia for comparison with fascist Turkey, as it is ridiculous and unwise to call for suppression of national independence movements of the Greek, Armenian and Kurdish victims of Turkish genocidal barbarians.
We can all easily turn into “genocidal barbarians”.
In 1919, Lloyd George encouraged the Greeks to occupy Smyrna. Naturally, Greek soldiers began to loot and kill Turks, and It did not work out well for anyone, except arms dealers. Today, there may be three Greeks who want to take back Smyrna; there may be five Armenians who look forward to a two-front war with Turkey and Azerbaijan, but these are not very popular ideas.
Small weak nations, especially if encouraged by the great powers, can get nasty. That’s what happened to nationalists in Bosnia and Kosovo, under US encouragement. Pretty awful results.
I don’t recall Saker calling for the partition of Turkey? Stopping Turkey’s government from aggression isn’t the same thing as partition. I must admit there are a few areas (but only a few) that should go to today’s Armenia (the rest of the areas were ethnically cleansed a century ago). But a federal Turkey with an autonomous Kurdistan would serve the purpose of protecting Kurds as well. Partition would mean the upheaval of millions of people,and isn’t a good idea. As for those other states mentioned. Any minorities of their peoples in Turkey are too small to think of a partition to benefit so few people. And causing even more of an upheaval of more millions of people.We must remember that today almost all “Turkey” (outside the Kurdish areas,and even a great number there) is inhabited by peoples that for over a thousand years have come to think of themselves as “Turks”.
Obviously, the Saker did not call for partition of Turkey. Some readers, however, did. There were also numerous racist remarks made, against the Turkish nation, remarks of the kind that one would expect to read on any jingoist website in any country.
It is preposterous to descend into rabid jingoism just because a neighboring country has fallen into the hands of an arrogant person, who is acting the way he is, only under license from the Empire.
We also should note that the earliest Christian sects and the Mandaeans survived under the protection of the Ottoman Empire, while they were wiped out everywhere else. History and reason ought to moderate our reaction to the presence of an unwelcome Sultan in Ankara today.
@ matt janovich
“… racist remarks against the Turkish nation…”
The trouble is the “Turkish nation” is in occupation of other peoples’ lands, the Turks are not autochthon from that region and they displaced, murdered and ethnic-cleansed the inhabitants of the land and stole it from others; the same thing the Zionists have done in Palestine. No wonder people here have a very dim view of the “Turkish nation”, and its “parliament”, and its “democracy”.
“Turks are not autochthon from that region.”
This kind of non-thinking guarantees perpetual war, and works great for the Empire.
Parliamentary democracy is the best system to start wars, but not as good as cemetery democracy, where the dead vote.
@ Uncle Bob 1
Why not restitution of lands taken from Greeks, Armenians, Syrians, etc.? Why not partition? After all partition is what Er-dog-an, Zion and the Empire wanted to do to Syria.
Because sane people, who are not in the war business, would not think of making war, breaking up countries, just to atone for century-old crimes.
@ mattjanovic
I’m not advocating making war. I would call it justice if Turkey were to atone for its crimes, the most recent being the Armenian and Pontic genocides which took place less than a hundred years ago, and paid reparations to the victims. Turkey will never erase from the collective memory of its victims and descendants the horrific atrocities it has committed in the Balkans and elsewhere. Tainted for ever, like the Zionists.
@ Uncle Bob 1
“… inhabited by peoples that for over a thousand years have come to think of themselves as Turks”
I’m not nit-picking, but it makes a big difference if ‘over a thousand years’ is reduced by several centuries. The Turks appeared in the region at the end of the 13th century, gradually extending their land grab and only in 1453 took Constantinople. Even today, the Greeks who remained in Turkey (most of Western Anatolia was Greek) called themselves Greek.
That’s the Croat nationalist argument for expelling Serbs, who “only” arrived in the 1700’s.
That’s the Kosovo nationalist argument for expelling Circassians, Croats, Gypsies, Serbs and Jews,
under the imaginary claim that Albanians are Illyrians, living in the neighborhood for 3000 years.
Ancient history is the basis for the Italian occupation of Yugoslavia in WW2.
Historical territorial claims is the ideological basis of all fascistic ideologies.
Sorry but who exactly is “calling for war”? My comment was that by embracing Turkish nationalism as the sole unifying force in the country and subsequent military ops, the Turks will alienate minorities and lead to a fracturing of the country (much like Ukraine). This isn’t a “call to partition”, it is an observation of their situation.
I totally agree with Don’s comment of May 8.However, on May 7, Don said that “the race will be on for Armenia, Greece and Syria to reclaim their historical territories.” Does that not mean war? Since those mentioned minorities are now basically absent, Don is not speaking of secession war but of conquest.
If one changes the location of the territorial claim from Turkey to any country that has lost territory, such as Italy, Germany, Austria, Hungary, Poland, Azerbaijan,or the Ukraine, one can observe that that those who are making such claims are invariably extreme right wing people, who often express pride about their fascistic background.
There is a rather large difference between description and prescription. “The race will be on” is a description of actors from afar, there is no suggestion for any course of action. As in “the race will be on once the flag goes down”. There are already “racers” lined up to go, they are only waiting for the “start”.
Your point is accurate that this will likely turn bloody, as is the fact that there are few Greeks left in Turkey. However, this is not to say there aren’t regions adjoining Armenia with significant Armenian populations that would clamor to rejoin Yerevan, or likewise that there are large Arab-speaking populations in the Turkey’s south along the Syrian border that would look toward Damascus. This is the glass house I was referring to, and pointing that out is not a call to war, nor am I a “US senator” or “jihadist” as was insinuated.
Sorry if Don felt that mine was an ad hominem attack.
My point is just that whenever our arguments sound like the arguments of the enemy, it’s time to re-examine them.
I agree 100% on that score. My point was not meant to be any sort of call to partition, just that the AKP is making it more and more likely
According to the date and the text accompanying the first of the above videos on YouTube, Ferhat Encü delivered this remarkable speech eight days ago, on Friday, 29 April 2016.
Does anyone here know what has happened to him him since? Has he been arrested, as threatened by the “parliament” clerk, or in fact: is he still alive?
Ferhat Encü has a Facebook page, which mentions his speech, but does not mention any arrest.
By the way, in Turkey they have an actual parliament, which in recent years, has given, apparently, a certain latitude of parliamentary freedom, so there is no need for putting parliament in quotations.
In most countries, if an MP tells the majority nationality that they do not belong in the country, there would be some sort commotion. In the Yugoslav parliament, the opposition leader got shot, once, for suspicion of disloyalty. I am surprised that nobody shot Mr. Encü.
Concerning your “actual parliament”, the second video above tells all that one needs to know about it and what kind of a place Turkey is. While your not so subtly veiled approval of publicly murdering a man for speaking out against the current massacre of his own people says something about you. Mass murders of civilians have been practised by the Turkish tribe long before Erdogan was born, of Armenians, Greeks, Kurds and many others, so nothing new here.
In the Italian parliament, in the 1950’s, when the regime faced a strong communist opposition, there used to be security men, strong bouncers, whose job was to interpose themselves and prevent fistfights.
As for the evil “Turkish tribe”, all of us, and most present states, and even the Kurds, are here because our ancestors robbed, murdered and enslaved their neighbors.
Mr. Ferhat Encü’s uttered daring but aggressive words, which I can explain as a reaction to a massacre committed three years ago, in his village, and to continued massacres, this year.
However, I cannot explain or excuse American cheerleaders for war, egging nations to ethnic hatred and humanitarian war. Some folks here sound like Madeleine Albright and Samantha Powers, except that the Evil Serb is replaced by the Evil Turk.
Another logically unsound attempt to “excuse” Turkish tribe’s heinous atrocities by “reduction”. According to your morals, any crime ever committed on the face of the Earth could be white-washed by applying the “one can always find someone else committed some crime” un-principle.
Turkish tribe’s collective criminal deeds are well documented. There are detailed written and photographic accounts on the web of Turkish tribe’s genocide of well over 1.5 million Armenians and of well over 1.5 million Greeks – and that is only in XX century. The contents therein are sufficient to make anyone sick.
Turks are an assemblage of “islamized” nomadic tribes from Central Asia without own culture, who plundered and raped Asia Minor since eleventh century, and destroyed civilizations and cultures wherever they went. They managed to do that even in India…
Reminiscent of ISIS’ destruction of the ancient cultural monuments of Palmyra recently, here is what Turks did in Nalanda (the site is in today’s Indian state of Bihar):
“… Nalanda was one of the great universities of the world, and survived for around 700 years, starting around 500 AD. Located in what is now northeast India, the learning center attracted scholars from Tibet, China, Greece, and Persia. … In 1193, Turkish leader Bakhtiyar Khilji stormed into the city, burned thousands of professors alive, and spent months burning each and every last scroll in the city. Reports from the time tell of a pale smoke from all the parchments hanging in the valley, which darkened the sky for months. … The destruction also plunged the area into the Indian version of the Dark Ages, as all advanced knowledge of mathematics, astronomy, alchemy, and anatomy was lost. …”
Ask any Arab today, and he will tell how Turks threw the entire Arab world into their Dark Ages, arresting and shattering the enviable culture of these great inventors of algebra, founders of modern medicine, and discoverers in astronomy. Turkish primitivism did the same on the Balkan peninsula. When Konstantinopolis, a great center of learning and the capital of Orthodoxy for eleven hundred years, fell in 1453 to the Turkish sultan Mehmed II (an avowed paedophile homosexual, who kept a “harem” of hundreds of young boys), darkness fell upon the southeastern Europe for centuries to come.
And to this day, the Turkish tribe has not even acknowledged its Armenian and Greek genocide, much less repented.
Practically speaking, how “feasible” today would be a breakup of that state of ill repute, is quite another matter, although not an impossibility.
Brave man, and he told the truth: the Turks are occupying the land of other people’s: Greeks, Kurds, Syrians, Armenians and others my history has forgotten. They are Asian but want to be accepted as “European”, first by invasions (the Austrians stopped them going further than the Balkans) now via the EU using “refugees”, only half of whom are displaced Syrians, callously as ramrods.
Only thing I would add is a little fix “Defied” not “Defined” defiance is not the same as definition.
ALERT! The translation seems to be extremely distorted and at times outright false. Just showed the video to a Kurish collegue of mine who got angry and fears, that these kinds of things will backfire n the Kurds. For example the part with the Greeks, Armeniens and Kurds owning this land is wrong. He did not mention Greeks and Armenians even once in the speech.
This collegue has not the time to make a proper translation. Could someone else please re-check with a Turkish-Speaking person?
At theduran.com, you have the video of Mr. Encü’s speech.
A number of letters complain about the translation, which, they claim, is imaginary
A reader provides a new translation of the speech, from which it appears that all historical mention of Turks belonging in the steppes of Russia were imaginary, together with any mention of Turkey belonging to Greeks, Armenians, and Kurds.
Mr. Encü was merely challenging the regime’s human rights failures, not the legitimacy of the Turkish state–and that’s the reason why Mr. Encü is apparently still alive.
Do we know what happened to him? I’m just worried since he was threatened to minimum ten years in prison.
Wow, look at these Turks? They are sad scared losers.
One day we the Kurds will have our land back from these evils.