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Originally Posted by (Mia,) But you're not describing the majority of Kurds in Syria when you say that. (PS - socialists take land from everyone). I know Kurds have a hard time - but from the person who I know it is not like what you say in Syria, at least. I couldn't speak about anywhere else.
He is Kurdish from Syria and so is his wife and so are their families who still live there today.
So obviously I'm going to consider him a credible source.
There may be some who do not have citizenship rights - I've read from between 65,000 and 200,000.
I am not saying that is right or wrong - I don't know the situation - but I know that there are 2,000,000 Kurds in Syria so if is true that 10% are treated this way, at least be accurate and not act like all two million are in this boat.<hr size="1" /></blockquote><span class='postcolor'>
Look Mia, you seem like a reasonable person, and I enjoy talking to reasonable ones regardless of our conflicting views.
The figures you provided are very fair. The issue of Kurdish land taken away had nothing to do with socialism. I just read this morning the name of the Arab tribes they were broght to the Kurdish areas, It was something like Ghamer tribes whose land was flooded by Euphrate dam. Kurds were evicted and stripped off their land. Why cannot you see this as an Arabization act? You know Kurdistan is geographically united only politically divided. The bordertriangle with Turkey and Iraq is Kurdish.
I don't know about your friends, uptil end of the 50s major Kurdish families were the backbone of Syrian aristocracy .After Baath most of them were Arabize. I , on the other hand have many Syrian Kurdish friends in Russia and Sweden who have escaped persecution and they tell me horrible stories of their misery.
It seems the riots have expanded to include Afrin.And there are more victimes and too many arrests.
http://www.kurdnet.net/www.kdp.info/news/n...intNewsNr=11230