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Tuesday, 25 August 2009 07:12

CNN'nin Campbell Brown'nun programında Türkiye haritasının yarısını Kürdistan olarak göstermesinin tepkileri sürüyor.

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Jim Walton, President, CNN News Group :  This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it  
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Mr. Jim Walton
President, CNN Worldwide
One CNN Center
Atlanta, GA 30303

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ÖRNEK MEKTUPLAR:

Letter 1: I would like to report something so disturbing to me. On 21 August 2009, Campbell Brown showed a map in her show carving out a country called Kurdistan from the Republic of Turkey and her neighbors. There is no such country and I expect a major news organization like CNN to know better. This is more than disrespect. This is insult and a malicious lie unbecoming a friend like the United States to level on a reliable, long time ally like Turkey. CNN should immediately correct this issue and apologize for insulting the Turkish nation.

Letter 2: With the launching of the new approach (Kurt Acilimi) in Turkey, designed to solve the 25 year old terror problem there created by the PKK, a group recognized as terrorist by the U.S., E.U. Turkey, and much of the world, misrepresentations of Kurdish issue in and out of Turkey seem to have escalated in the world media. An imaginary map, emanating from beliefs and wishful thinking, showing wide swaths of territories in Turkey, Iran, Iraq, and Syria is presented to unsuspecting readers as if it is the internationally recognized country of Kurdistan. Such abuse of goodwill does not help efforts to find a peaceful solution.  Turks and Kurds are equal citizens under the Turkish constitution today and amalgamated over the millennium they have lived together in Anatolia into a very strong, common culture. A Turkish saying goes “Turks and Kurds are inseparable like flesh and nail.” Kurds are represented in all walks of life with seven former presidents of the Republic of Turkey having Kurdish connection. Devious attempts to divide Turkey, in spite of the Lausanne agreement of 1923, which had already dealt with all ethnic and religious issues, is counter-productive and hurt efforts to promote peace.

Letter 3: 

Dear CNN or To Whom It May  Concern:

I am a regular CNN viewer and I have relied  on you for news and analysis of many of the major international events. I am  very disappointed of CNN broadcasting about a map of the Republic of Turkey which half of country was shown as “Kurdistan” on Campbell Brown’s program on August 21st at 8.47 PM. As a respected news organization, CNN has a  special responsibility to ensure the accuracy of its reporting, especially on an  issue as important as to the Republic of Turkey's territorial integrity and its Kurdish citizens and Iraq.
There is no such a thing as “Kurdistan” in  the Middle  East. Kurdistan is  not an internationally recognized name for the region. It is a name used  by Kurdish terrorist groups to indicate their ambition which is to form a state in the region someday in the future. This  imaginative Kurdistan state requires changes of current borders of  Iran, Syria, Turkey and Iraq. When you use the name Kurdistan, you are  unintentionally supporting Kurdish terrorist group’s objectives. I cannot  imagine this can be your purpose. The Kurdish PKK terrorist group has taken  40,000 lives in Turkey to date. They are not just brutal killers,  but drug smugglers and human traffickers.
Millions of Turkish people along with people  of Kurdish origin live in the part of the so called Kurdistan region that you  reported within the Republic of  Turkey's  borders. Current borders of the  Republic of Turkey was established by Lausanne Treaty in  1923. There was no Kurdistan state neither before this date or nor after this date.  This region is called South East Anatolia, not Kurdistan. Please make the corrections to your maps and facts for the future. The Republic of Turkey, like the US, is a multi ethnic and cultural nation.”  Turks” much like “Americans” represent a large variety of ethnic and religious  backgrounds. Kurdish ethnicity is one of many, which also include
Circassian’s,  Abkhaz, Georgians, Bosnians, Albanians, Azeri’s, Laz, Turkmen, Tatar and many  more. All unite in their Turkish citizenship, while freely celebrating their  rich ethnic identity, language and local  cultures. In sum, Kurds enjoy equal opportunity to  pursue their political, social and economic ambitions in the Republic of Turkey. The  vast minority who supports the terrorist PKK is willing to have a so called  Kurdistan. Let me remind you that the PKK is listed as a terrorist  organization internationally by a number of states and organizations, including  the U.S., NATO and the EU.

The PKK has conducted  terrorist activities since 1974 as defined in US legislation section 212  (a)(3)(B) of the INA (8 U.S.C. § 1182(a)(3)(B)) and as defined in section  140(d)(2) of the U.S. Foreign Relations Authorization
Act.

According to the U.S. State Department, PKK  is a leftist insurgent terrorist group that originally aimed to establish an  independent Kurdish homeland in the ethnically Kurdish regions of the Middle  East, which overlap the borders of the Republic of Turkey, Iran, Iraq, and Syria. The PKK was founded in 1974 as a  Marxist-Leninist group seeking to establish a Marxist Kurdish state in  Southeast  Turkey. The group launched a guerilla war against the Turkish  government beginning in 1984 that claimed as many as 40,000  lives. More recently, the group has claimed to be  seeking greater political and cultural rights for Kurds within the Republic of Turkey rather than a
separate homeland. CNN shouldn't  support and broadcast any false news or information about the territorial  integrity of the Republic of Turkey, a stanch ally of the  US in a  chaotic  region of the Middle East.
I truly hope that CNN takes into  consideration not supporting the Terrorist organization views and immediately  make's the necessary changes to the maps it uses for the  region.
The Turkish American community expects fair  treatment on these sensitive issues and hopes that CNN can be objective and  share the correct information with CNN viewers.

Letter 4:

Dear CNN or To Whom It May  Concern:

As a Turkish American I was simply insulted  and outraged when CNN broadcasted a map of The Republic of Turkey which half of  the country was shown as “Kurdistan” on Campbell Brown’s program on August 21st  at 8.47 PM. The south eastern part of the Republic of Turkey was shown as part of Kurdistan.
This is like showing Texas, New Mexico and Arizona as Mexican  territory.
Mrs. Campbell/ CNN the current borders of  The Republic of Turkey was established by Lausanne Treaty in 1923. There  was no Kurdistan state neither before this date or nor after this  date.
The map you displayed looked like a  product of the PKK terrorist organization (i.e. listed as a terrorist  organization in US and Europe) that has taken 40,000 innocent lives in  Turkey in the past two decades. But I cannot öunderstand how CNN would post such a miss leading map of the region. I imagine  the last thing that CNN wants is to become a tool for a terrorist organization.
I am sure representatives of the  Turkish Embassy in US or Turkish Consulates in other major cities of US such as  New York, Washington  DC, and Chicago would be happy  to review the sensitive contents such as  maps of the region or any information  about the Republic of Turkey before it gets aired. It is a shame that a large  media establishment which should be unbiased would air such a distorted map of  the Republic of Turkey, since there is no such country named  “Kurdistan “especially within the borders of the Turkish Republic!

Turkishny.com / Özel