The Kurd refugees

The Kurd refugees’ wave of landings in Sicily, in Apulia and in Calabria, is not only due to the search of a job, but especially to the immediate risk of losing their own life that thousands of Iraqi and Turkish Kurdistan people run, every day, since the Turkish Army’s attacks have begun again: these attacks involve unarmed people as well as Kurd soldiers. This is a politic question after all, but it is also something more: it is an organized criminality. The Turkish mafia, indeed, profits a lot from the organization of this “hope trips”, taking advantage of Kurd refugee’s despair and lying down on the impunity granted by Kurd authorities who don’t do anything to stop this human beings’ traffic, that, in a way or in another, reminds the slave trader’s ships of two centuries ago. That is unbearable, whereas the phenomenon is assuming proportions such as a biblical exodus.

The ships full of desperate people are more and more numerous; they are ships in bad conditions that run the risk of sinking at the first storm and that arrive at the Sicilian and Calabrian shores. Although the Custom Officers’ and the Costal Guards’ work, although the use of sophisticated technologies to control the arrival of clandestine ships into the territorial waters, there are several ships staying beyond the territorial waters and awaiting for discharging the refugees.

This is a serious problem because the Turkish mafia enriches with the few savings of Kurd peasants who escape from gun-shots and machine-guns. Then, the sending away from Kurd territories on foot through Anatolia, supports the project of ethnic cleaning of Ankara government that want to make Kurdistan, Turkish in manners.
It would be necessary that the mass-media acquaint the citizens with all that’s happening, and it would also be necessary that the Italian Government operates in Turkey and in the International Organs in order to make attempts to resolve the Kurd problem as well as to break off the Turkish mafia organisation, and not to pass this tragedy over in silence. However, it would also be necessary that the Kurd refugees are recognized as political refugees.

Azadì, cooperating with other associations to help the refugees coming in Italy, has organized a task force to face this problem.

We also ask for the cooperation of other associations in order to face that problem.