Runnymede Institute

In the biography of Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, father of modern Turkey, he lays out the vital framework for an idenity driven rising nation on the land mass of Asia Minor incorporating the remnants of many well documented empires and fiefdoms. The disasters of the Armenians and Greeks made it possible to take several steps in that direction but diverse ethnic groups presented varying degrees of dilemma to fit themselves into the new structure, Kurds most notably.

It warms the heart and thrills the spirit to hear of any people’s independence pangs but when the bombs start going off and one digs slightly deeper than the local papers, the whole thing gets turned on it’s head. Everybody in that part of the world has valid complaint to lodge yet when we examine the Kurdish position of desiring to hack off the southeastern portion of the Turkish Republic by sheer force of population, we’re inclined to ask what brand of glue they’d been sniffing.

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