Kurdish Hizbullah 's rise raises concerns
The increasing social and political activities of Kurdish Hizbullah in Turkey have led some to question the extent of support for an Islamist group with a history of blood on its hands.
By Alakbar Raufoglu for SES Türkiye -- 13/12/11
Mehmet Goktas, a 59-year-old Islamic theologian and editor of the pro-Kurdish Dogru Haber newspaper, calls on Muslim Kurds "not to send their children to schools".
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![Mehmet Goktas, an influential theologian within Kurdish Hizbullah, is highly critical of Turkey's secular system. [Facebook.com]](/shared/images/2011/12/13/ALAKBARphoto1-310_213.jpg)
Mehmet Goktas, an influential theologian within Kurdish Hizbullah, is highly critical of Turkey's secular system. [Facebook.com]
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Plainclothes policemen and workers recovered the remains of a missing person killed by Kurdish Hizbullah in Adana in early 2000. [Reuters]
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A captured militant from Kurdish Hizbullah named Comert Yorgun, wearing a balaclava, is surrounded by police and media members in 2000 as he points out the site where he and his friend killed a newspaper vendor named Adnan Isik in Van in the early 1990s. [Reuters]
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Speaking in front of thousands at a rally in Diyarbakir late last month, Goktas criticised the ban on headscarves in the Turkish education system. The rally was set up by Mustazaf-Der, an organisation sympathetic to the Kurdish Hizbullah (Party of God).
"Those who guide their children in such a way [not wearing headscarves] with the excuse of school or other excuses; those mothers and fathers who don't bring up their children in accordance with Islamic morality and decency are the biggest enemies of their children," Goktas said in his speech.
Based largely in southeastern Turkey, the Kurdish Hizbullah -- a Sunni group with no relation to the Lebanese Shi'a Hezbollah -- has been organising Islamic inspired rallies in recent years, in addition to developing a social base through NGOs, charities, bookstores and media.
Kurdish Hizbullah's renewed activities have prompted the question whether the once violent organisation will turn to politics, challenging the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) and traditional secular Kurdish nationalist groups like the PKK and Peace and Democracy Party (BDP) in Turkey's Kurdish populated regions.
Gareth Jenkins, an Istanbul-based analyst, says most of the population of western Turkey has no idea how strong Hizbullah has now become in the southeast. "The Kurdish Hizbullah receives almost no coverage in the mainstream Turkish media, even when they mobilise hundreds of thousands of people for mass rallies."
Formed in the 1980s by a Turkish Kurd, Huseyin Velioglu, Kurdish Hizbullah is believed to be responsible for the deaths of hundreds of people during the 1990s, the height of the Turkish state's conflict with the PKK, when security forces turned a blind eye to the Kurdish Hizbullah's activities in its ideological conflict against the Marxist-inspired PKK.
In January 2000, shortly after PKK leader Abdullah Ocalan was captured, Velioglu was killed in a police raid in Istanbul. The police captured Hizbullah's archives and many of their weapons, which resulted in the arrest of around 4,000 of its members.
"Inevitably, this had a devastating impact on Hizbullah's ability to function. It called a halt to violence and concentrated on rebuilding," Jenkins says.
Early this year, 18 suspected Hizbullah militants were released from jail. Their release came as the government suffered a number of electoral defeats in the predominately Kurdish southeast to a resurgent Kurdish nationalist movement led by the BDP, an opponent of the Kurdish Hizbullah.
"Generally, people are afraid of Hizbullah as it has a very bad reputation with torture and assassination in its history," says Nihat Ali Ozcan, an Ankara-based security analyst, adding that there are some similarities "between them and al-Qaeda, Lebanon Hezbollah and Hamas".
In the 1980s, Velioglu had envisioned a three stage process: propaganda, the building of a social base and then finally jihad. After his death, Hizbullah effectively suspended the jihad and returned to the second stage, that of strengthening its social base.
"Hizbullah now controls a vast network, primarily in the southeast of Turkey… It has magazines, a newspaper and a radio station. In some neighbourhoods, it is also the dominant force in the local community and even acts as an arbiter in local disputes," says Jenkins.
The current leader of the organisation is believed to be Isa Altsoy, although his exact whereabouts are unknown.
Wladimir van Wilgenburg, a writer for Rudaw and Jamestown Foundation analyst on Kurdish issues, says that Kurdish Hizbullah wants to transform the secular system into a system based on their interpretation of Islamic law, inspired by the Syrian Muslim Brotherhood and the Iranian Revolution.
"They still have good relations with Shi'a Iran and they organised a Muharrem festival which is normally mostly celebrated by Shi'a," he says.
During the Turkish state's "dirty war" against the PKK in the 1990s, van Wilgenburg says that the Turkish state allowed Hizbullah to fight the PKK. Hizbullah, in turn, used the state to become more powerful.
"This honeymoon ended after the capture of Abdullah Ocalan and the temporary decline of the PKK," he explains.
Van Wilgenburg says there is now a debate within Hizbullah about whether or not they should establish a political party and compete with the BDP and AKP in the Kurdish southeast.
Due to its religious and Kurdish nationalist credentials, Hizbullah is also a threat to the Gulen movement, which has been making strides in southeastern Turkey and the Kurdish neighbourhoods of the large cities.
Therefore, new fault lines are developing between Hizbullah and the Gulen movement -- which is backed by and backs the AKP -- over influence among religious Kurds.
According to Ozcan, the police are sometimes arresting Hizbullah members, opening the way for the Gulen movement to spread its influence at Hizbullah's expense.
While the PKK and BDP have been attacking the symbols of the Gulen movement, through violence and rhetoric, respectively, Ozcan says Hizbullah has been quiet, acting as a "sleeper cell". Its priority has been to first eliminate its Kurdish nationalist rival, the PKK; "then it can attack Gulen".
In the meanwhile, Suleyman Ozeren, an associate professor at the Turkish National Police Academy, says that by bringing a religious agenda to the rallies, Hizbullah is aiming to become one of the most powerful organisations in the Kurdish southeast.
"They began advocating their radical Islamic agenda," he explains, but "They're still far away from the political centre -- Ankara."
"They can't come to the point of creating a political party, because they have doubts about being able to get votes. BDP is the only alternative at this point," he says.
BDP MP Ibrahim Binici also believes that the Kurdish population would never stand behind the Kurdish Islamists unless they can assure the population of their ability to act legally.
"As for BDP, we can't co-operate with people whose hands are covered with blood," he told SES Türkiye.
However, Abdurrahman Kurt, former AKP MP from Diyarbakir, seems to brush aside all the fear mongering about the growing power of Hizbullah, saying "it's wrong to describe Hizbullah as an organised group."
"There is no Hizbullah structure in the region. These people [Hizbullah] can't count on the Diyarbakir Kurds as their electorate. They [Hizbullah] are just using their right to freedom of assembly and invite the people to the rallies; everyone can do that in Turkey," he says.
"I'm sure those who came [to the headscarf rally] were not there for the organisation, but for the Prophet," he adds.
However, back in Ankara, some officials aren't so calm, accusing Hizbullah of intending to create unrest in the country under the "order of foreign forces".
"From time to time, such organisations pop up [in Turkey], with foreign support," Mustafa Akis, member of the Parliamentary National Security and Internal Affairs Commission, told SES Türkiye, adding that the government intends to solve the headscarf issue by lawful means.
"But it's impossible to solve the issue in the name of Islam by using ways prohibited by Islam, such as terror or violence," he said.
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Very interesting piece..Initially, members of Turkish Hezbollah received military training in Kurdistan Workers’ Party camps. Cooperation soon turned to rivalry however, as you’re mentioning in the story with Hezbollah accusing the PKK of murdering Muslims, cooperating with Armenians, serving communism and seeking to divide the Muslim community. Consequently, Hezbollah set out to kill its PKK rivals across the provinces of Batman, Diyarbakir and Van, often posing as women during operations to avoid suspicion. This struggle went on for many years, resulting in over 500 deaths among the PKK and other Kurdish groups.
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There is no such thing as the Kurdish Hizbullah. Certain fractions have been trying to make people – especially in Kurdish-dominated eastern and southeastern regions – believe in it. The only reason behind this is the Kurdish issue. One has to underline this very carefully. I think state-sponsored Islamic organizations have been very active and developing in mainly Kurdish cities – especially in the civil society realm. I live in Diyarbakir, where religious non-governmental organizations such as Mustafaz-der, Ehli-der, Islam-der and Cami-der have considerably increased their activities with the AKP’s coming to power. The AKP has tolerated them. I believe the basic reason for that attitude is to put an end to the PKK or the Kurdish issue. Otherwise, the people in this region still remember the things Hizbullah did in the past. Hizbullah is not active in the region. The only day of the year they are active is the birthday of our prophet. They start preparations for the rally in all cities of the region one month prior to Prophet Mohammed’s birthday. People flock to the Diyarbakir’s Istasyon Square for the Holy Birth Week celebration. Among them are parents whose children took to the mountains to join the PKK. That is the Hizbullah reality in brief. To put it more correctly, there is no Hizbullah, but congregations who protect the state against the PKK. Many members of these religious organizations are not aware of it. Moreover, they are politically impotent. The only powerful political structure in the region is the BDP, and its closest rival is the AKP. AKP will be present in the region as long as there is money. If there is no more money, then there will be no more AKP. Who will have been left then? The BDP is equal to the PKK. Kurds are pious people. However, they are aware of the games being played. With best regards from Fiskaya.
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This article is full of fabricated nonsense.
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Like it was all we needed!
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This is a great comment, well done. Hizbullah started to employ a stance parallel to that of the state, which adopted an Islamist approach with the AKP’s coming to power, and they openly supported the AKP in elections. This led to conflicts within the Hizbullah. Once it somehow functioned as the hitman of the Kemalist regime and now, with the AKP government, it has been integrated into the system as the well-behaved child of the Islamist movement.
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How can a pious Kurd betray his/her country? They believe in that nonsense called Zoroastrianism, eat pork and get themselves screwed by those so-called commanders in the mountains. The Kurd you have in mind is just a brainwashed phony. If that was the case, the BDP should have come to power given that there are more than 20 million Kurds in Turkey. May God keep the good ones on the right path.
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The real threat for the people in the region is the PKK.
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That’s it, because of white Kurds like you we could not have even an identity for centuries. Poor creatures, the Kurdish people’s willpower is the one next to suffering people, opposing against its enemies and it’s PKK. YOU miserables, continue to be the skeleton hangman of the state but Kurds will not believe in you one more time, indeed did not believe in last time either.
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There is no excuse for betrayal …………….
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Dear friends, we should comment on, we should tell only the truth all the time. If we are living in South-East, let’s help without cheating this suffering people, as the population of this region. Because we have been always cheated, abused, squeezed. Agas, tribes, gangs, junta advocates, secularists, so-called sheikhs, so-called religious ones, they all cheated us. And after 80’s; organizations, associations, Jitem which spread barbarism, killed our people, our children, aged, innocent people, Ergenekon, PKK, etc.. Let’s scrub them all, open a clean page again, move to the place that we deserve in this country. Let’s get our rights with our already existing population as honest people and with a clean party. This country can only be improved with this people.
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32681, they are being called Hizbi-devil, they are killers. With God’s permission, there will be no place neither in Kurdistan nor in any other place for these killers. Because they have seen and experienced first by themselves that to whom they serve and how they’d been used by the state. It’s quite clear that they act according to Hizbi-devil called Hizbullah. Tansu Çiller, Mehmet Ağar, Sedat Bucak, Korkut Eken, Abdullah Çatlı are their servants. They’ve realized this later and they have …. people whom they’ve killed by violently, fiercely, with torture or by inhuming alive which cannot take place in Islam by themselves…
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You said that Hizbullah has a horrible past and that they are killers.. So, I have to say that you don’t aware of events happening in Turkey … It is reality that İslamic groups, which defend their people and lands, are always blamed by real killers (USA, Israel, and other non-Islamic countries) for being terroris.. Do you know that the USA killed nmore than 6 millions people, most of whom are Muslims… And did you forget PKK’s massacres, a Marksist and anti-Islamic terrorist group in Kurdistan region? Don’t you know how PKK killed religious Kurds in Kurdistan region of Turkey? I think you are a fan of PKK.. And it is normal for you to think that PKK is a legal organisation.. But don’t forget.. Hizbullah is stronger than before.. And stop blaming İslamic groups.. Real terrorists are the USA and its supporters..
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I see that a stupid said that Hizbullah was used by Turkish state.. I think you must be just an idiot.. It is a nonsense accusation… Don’t you know that Hİzbullah’s guide, Huseyin Velioğlu, was killed by state.. And you must know that a great number of Hizbullah members were arrested and killed with torture by Turkish state, while a lot of other members of Hizbullah were killed by Marksist PKK… Hizbullah is an Islamic group and it’s God’s Party.. Not Devil’s Party.. Devil’s Party is PKK.. And Hizbullah was founded by Muslim Kurds to prevent PKK’s Anti-Islamic activities.. Hizbullah’s aim is to prevent PKK from assimilating Muslim Kurds in Kurdistan region of Turkey.. You have to be aware of everything.. If Hizbullah wasn’t strong in Kurdistan, it couldn’t gather hundred thousands of Muslims in our Prophet’s birthday in Diarbakır…
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You’ve created a fake news. I look and see that you’ve immediately took the words of BDP in between your talks and you accept them as evidence. What is that?…
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Ha ha.. Who prepared this analysis? If you read the analysis, you will see that they interviewed with BDP MP, Ibrahim Binici… Do you know about him? He is a MP of BDP, an marksist party which is guided by bloody terrorist organisation PKK.. Binici says that the Kurdish population will never stand behind Hizbullah unless they can assure the population of their ability to act legally… It is very ridiculous.. Does he think that his PKK is legal? He forgets that PKK killed more than 40.000 people many of whom are Kurds.. PKK still claims that it advocates Kurds’ rights? It is really so ridiculous… And Binici’s another comic bragging.. It is more comic than the former explanation..He said ‘’As for BDP, we can’t co-operate with people whose hands are covered with blood.." No comment.. I advise readers to search PKK’s massacres.. Then, they will understand the comedy…
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Sorry but no one can domineer this people anymore, because they have awakened.
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It is very dangerous to talk about such things for this region. Because the deep state tried this before and a heavy price had to be paid as a result. It will clearly harm Muslims. So who is to benefit from it? 1. Deep state (Ergenekon), 2. PKK, 3. Nationalist Movement Party. Yes, these are the ones that will benefit from it. But for Muslims, it will definitely be harmful. This phenomenon is actually the Hizbulcontra, not Hizbullah. It is about setting people against each other. It is a very dangerous thing. I hope the government can prevent this before it is put into practice. Last time, it was funded by the state, so it lasted as long as the deep state wanted. This time it may not last long as it will not receive funding from the state. It may interrupt the communication of Islam, but it may never harm its universal structure because Islam will never become outdated. As I said, it can only delay its communication. People should steer clear of this phenomenon. Because it is a trap for Muslims and who leads it is unknown. I hope no right-minded Muslim gives credit to it. I think it is no use to play a game, which had already been tested and proved unsuccessful.
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So you think it was the state who founded Hizbullah? Even those, who make these claims, would not believe it.
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I agree with the article. It is 80% correct. Hizbullah is really powerful in the region. 95% of the people, who attend their meetings, are their supporters. Why? Because people in the region know who has organized that meeting. Those, who don’t like Hizbullah, would not attend. I don’t believe in a “honeymoon” with the state as the report claims. The state and Hizbullah supported each other. Local security forces might have turned a blind eye to Hizbullah’s operations during the Hizbullah-PKK conflict, but this does not imply an agreement between the state and Hizbullah. Moreover, people in the region believe that the PKK did not want Hizbullah and attacked them. They say the first attack came from the PKK side. I believe that Hizbullah aims to establish a religion-based state. The term Hizbulcontra is just a slander made up by PKK supporters. Kemal Burkay also says that Apo has been supported by the state. But everyone says something. As far as I know, Hizbullah members are very strict Muslims. This is a clear fact. With their strict abidance by Islam, they earn the support of people in the region. And I think, BDP and AKP are not happy about this.
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As long as there is such an illiterate mentality like PKK, this southeast can not relieve. We see who the real terrorists, executioners with bloody hands are. We live in southeast region too, friend. We can not go to the western cities because of PKK. You’re an organizasion more racist, fascist than the racist Turks. This terrorist organization has no aim other than to give harm to poor people by establishing their dirty games, systems everywhere. They make actions in southeast even amongst the Kurdish people. They kill innocent Kurds. They are today attacking to state, soldier, police, to innocent people just like they attacked to Kurdish Hezbollah on 80s-90s. At that time Hezbollah just defended itself.
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According to my opinion, Hezbollah is a reality of Turkey and it’s been growing in Southeast and in Europe rapidly. There would be no Muslim person in southeast if they did not be one of them. We can live our religion in southeast thanks to Hezbollah. If southeast was left tp PKK, today everybody would be either on mountains or fascist, racist, far away from Islam, zoroaster; God save. The people who wonder South east, come and see. You’ll see how BDP and PKK are irreligious, how the Kurdish girls are, how they dress, etc. Everybody knows that they present them to men in order to entrap the young people.
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Turkish state is opening space as much as possible to the activities of Hezbollah, in order to create an alternative against political Kurdish movement from Kurd geography. But, the statements having ‘Kurdish’ characteristics that Hezbollah stated on its latest manifest is a sign that this will be an effort in vain.
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When we look at the glorious struggle progress of Hezbollah movement enduring a quarter of a century ; the handicaps, plots, betrayals and attacks that they faced are not a kind of simple things, but mostly have a fatal nature. Şehit Rehber (Martyr Guide), was saying followings about this organized, planned, calculated fatal knocks and attacks towards the community: “Our case would have been fall down long time ago if it was human, and not Islamic.” While its splendid and glorious history for a quarter of a century is evident with its full clarity, and while there is possibility and atmosphere to get sound information, how much the people having stil blurred minds about Hezbollah can be single-minded? Because Hezbollah has always helped the openhearted people who referred to itself to know them or to straighten their doubts out and relived their suspects. The enemies of Islam are trying their best to use weapons in their hands for slander, defamation, plot and betrayal against Muslims. They use their all available physical and spiritual means, especially their own media to the maximum extent to show the Hezbollah movement blurry and dark to people.
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Dear friends, you and dear commentators, are you really looking for or discussing Hezbollah? To my opinion, AKP mentality so-called Hezbollah is being served to the people as a new expansion against Kurds, in other words we all know who is the leader of Hezbollah: Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his advocator Bulent Arınc on bended knee in front of Bin Laden and today Prime Minister of Turkey, took a photograph. Who is he, who are you? The same gravecloth, the same bowl. AKP that is trying to exterminate Kurds should not forget that Kurdish people exist since the past eternity will exist all the time, never ends. You should know that Kurds end only when Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s beard, mustache does not grow. You see fellows, Kurds never come to an end; neither Hezbollah, nor Jitem, AKP, MHP, they can not end off. A new game and a new carnage and a new intestine war.
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Many commentators says that Hezbollah is being used. But somehow, pictures and video records of Abdullah Ocalan and his militants together with Abdullah Catlı, many generals under arrest due to Ergenekon and Dogu Perincek have been published. Until now, there is not any single document or proof that Hezbollah Works with the state. We all should know that stories belongs to PKK who has no tolerance for any power or community in the region. This was the only reason for PKK’s fight with Hezbollah. PKK attacked Hezbollah (everybody know this and already proved) and Hezbollah attacked back and defended itself. Number of the civilian people died in these fight periods were 1903 (this includes the people who Jitem killed and the blood feuds). It’s ruffianism to still say Hezbollah fights against this people. OK, how many villages had PKK attacked since 1984 in east and southeast due to several reasons? How many Kurds did it kill? Have you ever think that? Let’me list a few of them: 7 March 1987 Nusaybin district Acikyok village 8 people (out of which 6 children) executed by shooting_20 June 1987 Mardin Omerli district Pınarcık village 30 people (out of which 16 children) were killed_20 August 1987 Siirt, Kılıckaya village carnage (24 people out of whih 14 children were killed)_ 20 August 1987 Mardin, Midyat district, Dargecit Bahcebaşi Quarter carnage (4 people out of which 3 children were killed)_ 21 September 1987, in descends into 2 villages of Bingöl and Siirt 12 people were killed_8 May 1988 Siirt, Şırnak district, Tarakli and Uckardesler hamlets, 11 people (out of which 4 women) were killed, 3 people were kidnapped_ 11 June 1992, a minibus were stopped in Tatvan district and 13 people inside were executed by shooting_05 September 1992 Bingöl-Genç highway was stopped and 7 people being got off from several vehicles were executed by shooting_I can list you many more. Which of them do you think is opponent to Kurds? to my opinion, the real danger and enemy of Kurds is PKK.
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Say! These berserk BDP people, why did you hurt? Didn’t your uncle Yalçın Kucuk make you attack to Muslim people? With his command, Ocalan released his dogs to attack, thereafter when they receive the return, these are agents. Indeed, your Karayilan says that these are working with Iran. We do not understand who is lying and smearing.
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An illegal organization that was strengthened by the state, opposite of PKK, the murderer of unresolved assassinations as the instrument of state.
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The main purpose of the state is to weaken the struggle of Kurdish freedom movement in essence; by establishing it that killed thousands of innocent Kurdish people in the past, and now, like nothing happened, come foreward and speak about Kurds’ rights, basically showed an opponent posture like federation, autonomy in the past and finally being the alternative Kurd that the government wants .
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Hey, for God’s sake, your this poll is first of all illogical. Now that you make his poll unbiased and to find the reality, the truth; then the thing that you must do is to take the comments or press release of a state official, a PKK advocator and a BDP person and share them. Then we can say unbiased. We’ve just read one with the pictures of PKK’s and Apo’s as being state agents, voice records of Ergenekon people, should point out that one, take and share them as well! Then, let’s agree with you and make comments. Otherwise I would say the comments of stirrer and sinful people of this regimen and PKK “Whoa!” and ve after that, raise a laugh! I would say that they had looked at the mirror and described themselves. Mr.Editor, I again invite you to an unbiased, moral and respectful position. Regards. MUSAB SASUNİ
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Kemal Direkci, thanks God that all Kurds are Muslim and 99% of them are devoted to their religion. Except the gunmen under the name of Hezbollah, they have killed thousands of people until now. Which Muslim does kill the innocent people for no reason? For money? The people of the region hates them.
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The comment that can be derived shortly from the news is that: The organization that they drive to with a hope that they will defend their own language by the emerging of a revolting Marxist-Leninist organization in a state that applies cruelty to its people, bans their language and religion; the organization that kills the Kurdish people violently, irregardless of children-plant-animal, mine the roads under the name of Revolution as if a floating mine under the command of international imperialist forces, however did not abstained to damage and destroy the Kurdish people, religion, culture, tradition, mentality of family and virtue heedlessly, but not continued brutality and tyranny continously and excessively against cruelty of the state which pause from time to time. In this turmoil, they came out of the people, and their activities aiming to strengthen the language, religion, ethics, education, family-child education of the people by not having any connection with any political party, group or force within the limits of international and boundaries in the region; despite all interference, smear, refusal, suppression, threat and blackmail that they faced, they became the hope for people they emerged from by enthroning in the hearts of them thus developing.
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I’m a Kurd from Batman and also 34 years old and I know Hezbollah for 24 years and I always knew that Hezbollah existed. Some commentators who do not live here in southeast had wrote that Hezbollah do not exist. Sorry but I do not know the times older than this 24 years but when I ask to my mother or father they also said that it existed. Hezbollah is a reality of Turkey and Kurdistan. You either accept it or not, this is the reality and I support Hezbollah. I support Hezbollah just like a communist supporting communism, a PKK man supporting PKK, a Gulen community member supporting Gulen and Nur. Their aim is clear.
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Sheik Said is a personality loved by not only Kurdish muslims but also by Turkish muslims. Only the followers of him, like Hezbollah, the followers of Allah can be the inheritors of these personalities. Everybody knows the reality of southeast. Kurd’s friend can only be a Kurd
orthe contrary, this is not a matter of faith. As per Qur’an command, believers are their friends of each other. Loving brother, the Turkish Muslims were martyrized in scaffolds in Kastamonu. Kurdish-Turkish Muslims respect to languages as well. Everybody has the basic right to be educated in their own language. Everybody has a divinity, my divinity is Allah. Profanes are friends of each other. O! believers, a big sedition will emerge if you do not help each other… Indeed will carry us to the light from darkness. -
I want to speak to BDP people. What do you want Hezbollah community? Kurdish people knows the reality of you anymore. You’ve killed how many people from Hezbollah, tell me. You don’t kill anybody because you’re innocent. Is the man you call as Serok from Ergenekon? Yalçın Küçük is his mentor, look he is inside now. Wake up, the only way is Allah’s case, all others are artificial.
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Satellite Turkish state that British had set up and satellite PKK that Turks had set up will go away from Kurdistan sooner or later.
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When I look at some comments, I’m surprised to see some commentators who try to deceive the Hizbulcontra as if Hizbullah. It’s clear that the people who write these comments are not here, therefore just writes the things that they learned by hearts. Hizbulcontra is an organization supported by the state, they fight for one thing only, as they’re the permanent staff of the state, they act in accordance with the interests of the state. In ‘90s, state were giving them names, photographs and they were eliminating these people. Some people had menitoned them so innocent, we’re just laughing. This people knows very well who is what. If they were not exist, if they and the betrayers were not exist against Kurdish independence struggle, we would be free now. These betrayers who stops and slows down PKK are today trying to show themselves as innocent people by changing their names. PKK’s fight was only against the state, against the landlords, gangs, the people who exploit themselves. State placed a betrayel Kurd whereever there is a Kurdish organization, this is their policy for centuries but everybody has to alert anymore. We should not stand against each other anymore. It’s the time for unity. Today, there are brave guerillas fighting for Kurdish people. Let’s look after the guerillas fighting on mountains bravely for you in this winter conditions, despite the snow over a meter and cold weather. If they were not exist, nobody were talking about Kurds today. This fight has took 25 thousand guerillas’ lives. Betrayers should leave this act anymore too. If you want to fight for this people, the mountains are there, the guerillas are there, let’s make together these lands free, but if you say “No, it’s difficult over there, I can’t do it.”, don’t stand against PKK for God’s Sake, otherwise the history will call you for account. A member had said that “If Hizbis were not exist, we could not live our religion.”. This means that you do not have any religion, any belief then. When PKK had attacked the religion? Theis people do not believe you anymore.
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Wasn’t the leader of an organisation that is claimed to be established by the state killed by the state? Is there any small evidence related to Hizbullah-state connection? Didn’t PKK eliminate dozens of socialist organisation while getting started? Did ’mustazaf’s (Translator’s note: ‘Mustazaf’ means poor, exploited, victimized, proleterian, innocent, etc. and not this word is included in official Turkish dictionary) ever take up arms for 11 years? If you look at the events from the point of view of PKK and socialist secular forces, everybody whose forehead touches the prostrate and who does not obey to PKK and Kemalism is guilty. This is what kind of a state set-up that thousands of its members has been in prision for years and not any single video or photograph can not being published. No, there is no need for lying. Hizbullah is the reality of this country and should be able to express itself on democratic grounds.
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Hizbullah is no harm to anybody. You will see this if you meet them.
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I condemn all your features which include Kurdish propaganda.
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Try to reach Hizbullah community in one way or another and obey them. You’ll absolutely find the real Islamic brotherhood there. I’ll also give an advise to the ones who do not know Hizbullah. If you want to know someone, look at his enemies. If his enemies are good, then know that he is bad. If his enemies are bad, then know that he will not give any harm. If America calls Turkey Hizbullah (far from it) “terrorist”, I’ll sacrifice myself to such terrorist.
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As a matter of fact, the PKK, the US and Israel top the list of those who don’t like Hizbullah. They even consider it more dangerous than the Lebanese Hizbullah. Could they actually be dishing on Hizbullah?
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O! Allah, O! In he name of Allah (Translator’s note: An Islamic phrase).
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What a shame! I see that you don’t care about suffering people or the ummah (Muslim community). Shame on you!
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Peace be with you! I am laughing at those who live in the East but still say that Hizbullah is not strong among Kurdish people. BDP is increasingly losing votes against Hizbullah. PKK is getting weak. In other words, pious Kurds like me and my entire clan are approaching Hizbullah. We have never trusted in Turkey and we never will. Hizbullah has never made a distinction between Kurds and Turks. It is not a terrorist organization. It is all about love. It is the symbol of resistance against capitalism and evils. Hizbullah is neither Kurdish nor Turkish. It is neither Sunni nor Alewi. It is not Arabic and it is not Persian. Hizbullah is everybody – without any discrimination. This is what I saw and experienced as a Sunni Kurd. The state had banished the love for the Ahla Bait (Prophet Muhammad’s household) for years, but we have found it now thanks to Hizbullah. The state backstabbed us whereas Hizbullah embraced us. They didn’t look down on our color or language. They didn’t call us vulgar. I see no reason for not becoming one of them. I cannot embrace a country, that is licking the boots of the US, Israel and Europe. Hizbullah is the resistance and honor of the Middle East, and the guarantee of Kurds’ freedom.
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Hey, brothers; what you call as Hizbullah can not be expressed in numbers like 10 100 1000. Its only 1 faitful heart is enough for all enemies of Islam. I’m from Batman. The ones who say Hizbullah does not exist in southern and eastern Anatolia are in a big jealousy and unacceptance. Yes, indeed I don’t support much Hizbullah’s murders in 1993 except some of them. However 2004 model Hizbullah is so nice. Wherever you look at in Batman and in Diyarbakır, you face with Hizbullah but please be sure that we do not see ourselves as the oweners of this region like some other people do. This region belongs only to the believers who love Islam. My Muslim Turk brothers, there is no discrimination in Hizbullah, there is unity. Wee’re Ottoman, we’re Fatih, we’re Arafat, we’re Hamas and most important of all, we’re Muhammed.
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Hizbullah of Turkey is today a legal movement which serves to the society. Today, there is a movement with its educated tens of thousands individuals and its TVs, radios, newspapers… If the Kurdish problem will be solved in Turkey in the centerline of brotherhood, unity and solidarity, this can be possible only with the Hizbullah of Turkey. The members of this movement has opened their dining table for the ones who want to know the Hizbullah of Turkey. As of 2012, noone has the luxury of saying that he does not recognize this movement. Because everything is pretty obvious. Its written materials.. In short, its services..
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Do you want to know the Hizbullah of Turkey? The address of huseynisevda.biz is the public information office of Hizbullah of Turkey.
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What I see is that – no matter what is said – Hizbullah is increasingly supported especially by Kurdish people. They have been calling the PKK and Hizbullah terrorists, murderers and illegal for 30 years, but do you think this has any impact on the issue? If people support them, what you say is not important. Today people support both the PKK and Hizbullah. But there is a difference – The PKK’s supporter base is fixed, it is even shrinking while the number of Hizbullah supporters increases everyday. This is my observation.
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In my opinion, it’s partially correct but there is a general info pollution. Hizbullah is not nationalist and also the actions they do are for defence.
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Hizbullah is a real, state-sponsored terrorist organisation. However, they are not powerful enough to achieve anything.
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Hello everybody. Well, fellows, I see that BDP people still continue with their propoganda against Hizbullah, just like in the 1990’s. Back then, they did not want any power other than themselves, so they thought that they could repulse [Hizbullah] by violence. However, they saw that Allah’s army is in front of them, like an indestructible castle and then started to think that “We can not beat these in this way, what should we do now? Best of all, let’s be Ebu Cehil, Ebu Ebdşems and call them warlocks or if it doesn’t work, we’ll call them magicians. If that doesn’t work either, then let’s call them state spies. If we do not do this, shariah rule would dominate here and our socialist action would disappear.” They are in constant fear. Yes, [Hizbullah] does the best of violence when necessary, but it i also the most merciful organization towards those who deserve it. Because they are really the followers of Allah. They have learned both mercy and violence from the prophet of Allah. Hey BDP mentality, if you claim that you’re real Muslims, then why are you trying to learn about Hizbullah from Hizbullah’s enemy instead of directly from Hizbullah? Doesn’t our almighty Allah say that “When a sinner brings you a news, investigate it.”? Look, the doors of our almighty Allah are open to everybody. Whether you want it or not, Allah will complete his heavenly light and this will happen only and solely by means of the followers of Allah, if Allah permits.
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I refrain to mention the name of Allah with the fraction you say. It’s being known and described as HizbulDevil among people. (I’m a member of a religious family, and furthermore we live Islam in the most appropriate way in all phases of our lives.) Pious people with the real Islamic conscious have never supported these HizbulDevils, because they have emerged by the supports of Ciller, Agar and some other devils. I’m telling these as a person living in this region. Many real intellectuals have been killed by them. They shot many innocent people dead with a single bullet in the head. They also had a group of hitmen consisting of gypsies. In Diyabakir, some of these hitmen have been caught by people, police took them and anyhow, they have vanished into thin air while in police custody. (These were ordinary events that we witnessed everyday in the Ciller era.) Regarding the meetings they organize, all Kurdish people know very well who they are, only the HizbulDevils who sell themselves for money deny it. The only reason for people to gather in these meetings is to attend activities organized for our Prophet. We hate HizbulDevils but we still go these places to commemorate our Prophet. Let me also say that in Turkish Republic, there has never been real Hizbullah and can’t be as well. Because only the ones, who are merely a tool, can survive on these lands just for a limited period of time. The rest doesn’t matter. By the way, they have declared a so-called manifest, etc. recently. This is because of the order given by some people to them, I can not write here who they are. But it should be well known that these are especially anti-Islam ones who betrays Kurdish people for money. Real Hizbullah means soldier of Allah. If Allah permits, we would reach that level too.
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Most of those, who say Hizbullah was founded by the state itself, are characterless people who speak on behalf of the state.
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Some friends say that Hizbullah was set up by the state. Is there any evidence about this? If there is, then declare it. So, there is not. But there is [evidence] about the PKK. There are many photos, footage. Everybody watched it when Apo was caught. He said “I’m not against the Turkish Republic. If I am given a chance, I’m ready to work for this state.” You and your so-called leader should answer these questions first. My next question: do you accuse Hizbullah of profaneness and exploiting the religion? What has the PKK done so far in the name of religion? Indeed, it did not do anything for the benefit of Kurdish people. Don’t the PKK and the BDP make propaganda in favor of Zoroastrianism by saying “the children of fire”? Which of their activities is in the name of religion? Everybody knows that it’s a communist and secular organisation. Why don’t you tell all these?
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Hizbullah and the Mustazaf Movement has no relationship with BDP, AKP or PKK. AKP government is walking hand in hand with BDP which is the extension of PKK today. As opposed to that, the Mustazaf Movement set up a political party. If the Free Cause Party (Hüda-Par) was pro-AKP, they wouldn’t set up a party. AKP and BDP have accepted to be the slaves of the secular government for the sake of filling their pockets. Whereas Hüda-Par is a party which would work towards an Islamic and humane way of life as well as a constitution based on the Quran and the sunnah for both Muslims and members of other religions. Here AKP and BDP supporters have teamed up to agree on all hands. I want to ask: The state killed hundreds of thousands people and the PKK killed close to 60,000 people. Then why do people only care about the number of people Hizbullah killed? Those in support of the state should first have a look at the hundreds of thousands of people killed by the state. PKK supporters should look at the 15,000 innocent Kurds killed by the PKK first and then look at the 1,600 people whom Hizbullah killed to defend itself. This article is naturally biased, but now Hizbullah has its own media and political party. Everyone, who wants an Islamic and humane life, should come to the Free Cause Party.
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HizbulDevil! A group which buries people alive or in hogties, torturing them thuggishly, brutally and coldheartedly – in a way that has no place in Islam.
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The fact that this shameless media, which serves the purposes of capitalists, has stigmatized Hizbullah without giving then a chance to speak and then shed false tears, is a clear evidence of the values they hold. Hizbullah is reality of Turkey. It is based on justice and humane life. We can say nothing, but “Have a heart” to those who have a dirty past with such incidents as Dersim and other massacres.
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They talk about the ahl al bayt (family of Muhammad), but I wonder what their attitude is regarding the Lebanese Hizbullah and Iran which also refer to the ahl al bayt? A clear and honest attitude is expected from them. If they’re in the same ballpark, then they should know that Allah’s curse is upon the cruel and their supporters. The big devil, USA and the imperialistic rhetoric can not save hhe Shi’a after Afghanistan and Iraq. Everybody should know this.
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The only aim of Hizbuldevils is to kill people and to destroy the Kurdish-Turkish brotherhood. Never be deceived by these jerks. If you want faith, there are thousands of scholars in this country from whom you can learn about religion. Allah’s book is enough for this. You know, you can get no change out of bloody-minded animals.
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