[Dear editors, I quite appreciated Pinar Selinay's article…]
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Dear editors, I quite appreciated Pinar Selinay's article regarding Kurdish uprisings, in the April issue of Socialist Action. It is refreshing to read such great coverage of events in Kurdistan, a story that is widely ignored by the "popular" press.
The Kurds, being the world's largest minority (30 million) without a homeland of their own, have endured great hardships in this century alone. Hundreds of thousands have died due to fascist state terrorism in Turkey, poisongassed by Saddam's butchers, and jailed and oppressed by the ayatollahs in Iran. Throughout this ordeal, they have remained steadfast in their struggle for a free and independent Kurdistan.
It is time the "Great Powers" correct the wrong they did in the 1920s and redraw the maps to mirror a united Kurdish nation-state before we approach the millennium.
Mehran Ron Kamangar Daly City, Calif.