Newroz Celebration in Turkey!

    Celebration of Newroz in Atlanta had us, the organizers, very busy with little details of the programs. However, throughout the preparation time our focus was to make sure that everything was going right and trying our best to give the Kurdish people, and our guests a great time celebrating. Newroz is the Kurdish New year, but many other nationalities celebrate it as well. Like all other nations Kurds celebrate their New Year with picnics, dancing, and partying all filled with joy and love. In Atlanta, we did not short ourselves from partying. In fact we danced passed 1:00 o'clock  of that morning. Dancing so hard most of the attendees were soar the next day. 
    After a joyful night I went over to a friend's house to spend the night. When we got home his roommate was on the Internet watching a just released videos of Newroz from Turkey.  There are close to 20 million Kurds in Turkey. Like all Kurds they too celebrate the Kurdish New Year with dancing and joy. The video which can be seen on this link (http://www.kurdishyouthclub.com/AboutMe.aspx) did not show Kurds dancing this year. 

  
 Unlike the promise of progress given just weeks earlier by Erdogan the videos showed Turkish intelligence officers breaking a 15 years old Kurdish boy's hand for celebrating the New Year. Newroz celebration was turned to a bloody event throughout Turkey from the Kurdish cities to the metropolitans such as Istanbul. Another clip containing women and children being beaten and attacked, tanks and military vehicles roaming the streets, tear gas gunfire and kidnapping are all the different contents of the video shed light on the Newroz celebration in the Democratic Republic of Turkey. We urge the international community: as they stand for Tibet and the beatings that they receive from the oppressive Chinese forces to also stand for the Kurdish boys and girls. To stand for those Kurds who are being run over and tortured in the same manner as the Tibetan demonstrators do.