The Kurdish People Have A Dream

The Kurds face many obstacles in their struggle for freedom.

Earlier this week, two Kurdish owned banks in Baghdad were hit with explosives, injuring two people.   In Germany, a Syrian militant who tortured Kurds is seeking asylum, thus posing a threat to all Kurds who live there. The Iranian government represses Kurds that seek to study their own language in schools. Syrian jihadists systematically abduct Kurds and uproot their olive trees in the Afrin region. 

Dr. Mahmoud Abbas, a Kurdish writer and political analyst who serves as the General Consul of the Kurdistan National Council of Syria, implied in an interview that Dr. King’s vision can easily be applied to the Kurdish people: “We are a people who were not united by a political entity, nor a Kurdish system, nor a common constitution, nor legislative laws on which to build our future.”

According to Abbas, “We were divided by totalitarian, dictatorial regimes, yet we continued as a cohesive nation in its structure, and the subconscious belonging to the absent homeland remained present, and on its foundations the Kurdish identity was not affected. Which directs us as a people before the cultural-political movement towards agreeing on a general project whose ultimate goal is liberation, despite the regimes’ fight against it, and its internal distortion of various partisan-political backgrounds.”

In conclusion, Abbas declared: “One of the goals of the Kurdish national project is to correct the distorted history in the region, and to convince the people that the freedom of the Kurdish people is an actual contribution to their salvation from totalitarian, dictatorial regimes.” 

This is the goal that Kurds strive towards to this day and we should remember that, now of all times.