Tuesday, April 22, 2008

Start a Blog for Kurdish Rights! Words Are Weapons!

It has never been so important for anyone who supports the Kurdish Freedom Struggle to join in the information war.

Mizgin at Rasti has a posting today on the Psychological Warfare that our enemies use.



Lies presented by so called 'experts' in the field but hiding the fact that they represent companies that are seeking win government/military/commercial contracts, so need to lie and present information in such a way as to please repressive countries and so win contracts.

General Ralston, who was appointed to Turkey as a so called 'Special Envoy' but was in fact only in Turkey to win a $Billion contract for his own arms firm Lockheed Martin, is only but a small example of what is done systematically and daily.

Turkey have learnt their psychological warfare tactics from the US.

The ruling elites and commercial military powers know exactly the power of information and psychological operations that they are prepared to pay bloggers to peddle their lies for them.

For the Kurdish struggle it is easier than that. Our strength is the truth and justice of the struggle. But because of the Psychological misinformation that is fed to the media through the Turkish Army Psychological Warfare Department, this truth is but a whisper. We need to make more of a noise to be heard.


We need to be able to present that truth to a wider audience, to educate and explain the legitimacy of the Kurdish People's Freedom Struggle. But we are only a few. We need many more voices!

Rasti, really, was the first (In English) in terms of promoting and analysing the Kurdish Question and challenging the Psychological Warfare Misinformation of the Turkish/US authorities. There have been other sites that information, news and opinion.

But not many that humanise the Kurdish issue and challenge the propaganda that needs to be challenged.

So please anyone who reads this posting and supports the Kurdish struggle please consider starting your own blog on the Kurdish issue. Anyone can do it. You do not need to be an expert nor have a lot of knowledge of blogging, it is really easy. All you need is the motivation to want to help the Kurdish Freedom Struggle and the rest should follow.

Express your own feelings or experiences on what it is like to be Kurdish and live in Turkey and/or post or comment on articles that you have seen or videos you have seen. In short publish the truth and challenge the lies. Often personal stories are the most effective!


Get together with friends and share a blog so everyone can contribute something.

Cut and Paste or provide links to articles that have impressed you that you would like to share with others. Be clear and to the point and keep the blog tidy presentable and interesting.


IT REALLY CAN MAKE A DIFFERENCE!

The Turkish side are very active, like the American psychological warfare, in peddling lies and misinformation.

And they understand the dangers of pro Kurdish bloggers becoming active and presenting the truth, so they attack and hack Kurdish sites such as Kurdish Info recently.


The hacking of Kurdish Info should be a wake up call to us all.



WE NEED MORE PRO KURDISH BLOGGERS!



CHALLENGE THE TURKISH PROPAGANDA AND MISINFORMATION!



JOIN THE INFORMATION WAR!



WORDS ARE WEAPONS!
Or in the case of Zinar, who has started a blog in Spain, music too. Take a look at Zinar's blog in Spannish. This particular posting is about a Spannish Classical Guitarist, with a fantastic video of her playing. Now the history of Flamenco has Kurdish influence during the times of Islamic influence in the South of Spain and Zinar is exploring those cultural links and at the same time raising awareness of the Kurdish issue in Spain.


NOW ITS YOUR TURN START A BLOG HERE NOW!

5 comments:

Kurdo said...

So that's what happend to the site. Holly ****! And that's not the first time Turkish ultranationalists hack Kurdish web sites. Where did you read or hear that it was hacked? I'd appreciate links so I can spread the word. Thank you.

Hevallo said...

Kurdo, I visit the site daily and about a week ago, when I went on it was full of Anti PKK propaganda and links to all of those Turkish fascist 'PKK eat babies for breakfast' sites with Turkish Nationalist music blaring. It was not a nice sight. They have taken it down but I'm sure though, that the friends will have it back as soon as they can.

Anonymous said...

What about dozame, that blog disappeared a year ago or so and I always wondered why. Any ideas?

Hevallo said...

Anon, I honestly don't know, but believe that it is not for reasons of a sinister nature but for the reasons, whatever they were and I suspect it may be that the level of political committment of that particular blogger increased to another level. But I don't know that for sure.

Zinar Ala said...

thanks Hevalo.
silav u hezkirin ji Spanya.

zinarala.wordpress.com (bloga kurdi)

 
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