The oil in Kurdish land on the Turkish side

And a little about Turkish history

When you hear the name of Turkey then you must be aware that ten centuries ago there were no Turks in Kurdish Land and Turkey of today.

It was beautiful Turkish women who drove the Turks to dominate the power of Islam and they used this Islamic power to kill over 5 million Kurds and occupied their ancestral land.

The last Abase Caliph of Islam, Muatasam Bella, was born of a Turkish mother. Gaining the power of Islam enabled them to take over most of the lands in Kurdish Land and create the Safawe Empire and Ottoman Empire.

During the collapse of the Ottoman Empire and the making of the modern Turkey of today the Turks used a nationalist agenda in which the identity of the Kurds was denied.

As a result of this nationalist agenda millions of Kurds were displaced and scattered around Turkey.

This policy resulted in Kurdish revolt against turkey. This revolt and rage have prevented peace settling in Turkish Kurd Land for over eighty years up to the present time.

The Turks have occupied about half of the Kurdish Land and the Turkish government has destroyed over 5,000 Kurdish villages and has forced them to flee the area and be flung all over both urban and countrified areas of Turkey. They have made exploratory investigations in the following oilfields, but the money gained from this has not been used for the benefit of the Kurdish people.

KurdLand on the Turkish side is a very oil-rich area, but because the Turkish government cannot gain control of the whole of Kurd Land, the oil industry in Turkey has stagnated.

On the border between Turkey and Iraq, there is a vast area where oil seepage is clearly evident. Feasibility studies have been done on the Iraqi side but because the Turks, like the Syrians, will not allow either local Kurdish engineers or me to conduct such studies, I am powerless to show a clear picture of what natural resources are present there.

Poor management of the Kurdish people by the Turkish government, made a lot of young Kurds refuse to accept this dictatorial style and so they left the villages, towns and cities and went to the mountains where they armed themselves and began to use aggressive tactics.

This damaged the economy of both the Turks and the Kurds and no investor, either local or foreign, wanted to bank on success in such a potentially explosive situation. The Turkish government decided to spend billions of pounds developing Turkish areas, and they have not spent 1% of these billions on the Kurdish side. For more information, you can refer to the Lemon newspaper of the 8th June 1994.

Oil companies would welcome the opportunity of developing the oilfields of Kurd Land, or invest in associated equipment such as pipelines but, due to the uncertainty of the situation, this cannot be put into operation.

A group of oil companies intended to bring a pipeline from the Caspian Sea through Turkish Kurdistan to join the Iraqi pipeline and extend it to the Mediterranean and I, (Pishdare), have forwarded a project for an oil refinery to be built on the Turkish-Iraqi-Syrian corner of Turkish Kurdistan over both pipelines - the Iraqi one and the intended one.

I have managed to gain the interest of some investors, but the Turkish government wanted the pipeline to run over their own, not the Kurdish land. Due to this I have halted the programmer and I am working to divide Turkey and reunite Kurd Land.

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