Thread by @vvanwilgenburg

KRG PM @masrour_barzani affirmed that “wars and demographic change will not bring security, peace and stability” to the region and called for “a peaceful and just solution that guarantees the rights of all parties.” (1)

@masrour_barzani Kurdistan Region President, @IKRPresident, also expressed his worries for the people in areas affected by the Turkish campaign

President Nechirvan Barzani noted that the participation of “extremist groups” in the Turkish operation was cause for heightened concern (2)

@masrour_barzani @IKRPresident Read more: Kurdistan top officials concerned by Turkish incursion into northern Syria, call for de-escalation (3)
kurdistan24.net/en/news/938fd6…

@masrour_barzani @IKRPresident Should remember when Turkey attacked Afrin last year: a Kurdistan region parliament delegation visited Afrin + within a special session decided to send humanitarian assistance to people and civilians. Also @masoud_barzani met with @shahoz9 at ... (4)

kurdistan24.net/en/news/bdab94…

@masrour_barzani @IKRPresident @masoud_barzani @shahoz9 that time. President @masoud_barzani in that period called for peace in Afrin. "We hope that these attacks, which have led to the loss of civilian lives are ended immediately,” he then said. This time when Turkey again attacked the Kurds, he was also quick to speak out (5)

@masrour_barzani @IKRPresident @masoud_barzani @shahoz9 The recent protests in the Kurdistan region were also supported by all the Kurdish parties. The indiscriminate bombing attacks Turkey is carrying out prevent the new parliament from sending a solidarity delegation. It also makes it more difficult to send aid (6).

@masrour_barzani @IKRPresident @masoud_barzani @shahoz9 For those analysts who make Turkish attack a 'PKK versus Turkey thing' and have limited information about Kurdish affairs: most Kurds (divided over Iran, Iraq, Turkey, and Syria) see this Turkish attack as an attack on all Kurds. It's not about the PKK! (7)

@masrour_barzani @IKRPresident @masoud_barzani @shahoz9 There was similar cross-border solidarity among Kurds when ISIS attacked Shingal & Kurdistan region in August 2014 (leading to temporary agreement between Syrian Kurdish parties. PKK fighters at that time also defended Maxmur. Barzani also send Peshmerga to Kobani (8)

@masrour_barzani @IKRPresident @masoud_barzani @shahoz9 Iran, Turkey, Syria and Iraq have massacred Kurds, displaced them, hanged them, and banned their language. "Let no one say Kurds are dead, they are living. They live and never shall we lower our flag" (11)

@masrour_barzani @IKRPresident @masoud_barzani @shahoz9 Kurds will see analysts or diplomats that use the 'PKK argument' to justify Turkey's invasion are seen by Kurds as responsible for the upcoming mass displacement and killing of civilians. (12).

@masrour_barzani @IKRPresident @masoud_barzani @shahoz9 I remember this hypocrisy when the US was celebrating independence day (also in Erbil) months before the independence referendum in 2017. In the past, Americans rose up against the British empire to create their own state. When Kurds do it they are terrorists, separatists? (13)

My grandfather who was a resistance leader during WII who saved Jews from the Nazis. He would have been called a terrorist if Hitler won the war. He was executed in 1944 (14)

Şivan Perwer - Ya Star
"Daxwaziya me, em bibin dewlet, dibêjin win nebûne milet
Li dinyayê milet neman bê azadî û bê dewlet ji gelî me kurda
Dibêjin dîroka we nîne, farîsî ne erebî ne
Yan tirkî ne û li hev ketîne bingeha we qet çi nîne ax" (15)