Even Our Animals "Cont."

Roj Bash...

Finally I could manage to start publishing again, sorry for not publishing anything lately, but actually I was somehow busy with work.

Meanwhile, I found something on the BBC site, that proves something very important, and directly related to our old post, about renaming and changing the scientific animals in the North Kurdistan, Turkish Kurdistan, here is the news , this news last updated on Tuesday, 8 March, 2005:

Turkey renames 'divisive' animal

Turkey has said it is changing the names of three animals found on its territory to remove references to Kurdistan or Armenia.

The environment ministry says the Latin names of the red fox, the wild sheep and the roe deer will be altered.

The red fox for instance, known as Vulpes Vulpes Kurdistanica, will now be known as Vulpes Vulpes. Turkey has uneasy relations with neighbouring Armenia and opposes Kurdish separatists in Turkey.

The ministry said the old names were contrary to Turkish unity.

"Unfortunately there are many other species in Turkey which were named this way with ill intentions. This ill intent is so obvious that even species only found in our country were given names against Turkey's unity," a ministry statement quoted by Reuters news agency said.

Some Turkish officials say the names are being used to argue that Armenians or Kurds had lived in the areas where the animals were found.

Name Changes:

Red fox known as Vulpes Vulpes Kurdistanica becomes Vulpes Vulpes.

Wild sheep called Ovis Armeniana becomes Ovis Orientalis Anatolicus.

Roe deer known as Capreolus Capreolus Armenus becomes Capreolus Cuprelus Capreolus.

Turkey has tense ties with its eastern neighbour Armenia, which it does not officially recognise.

Armenians accuse Turkey of genocide, saying 1.5 million of their people died or were deported from their homelands under Turkish Ottoman rule.

Turkey denies the genocide and says the death count is inflated.

For the last two decades, Turkey has also been fighting Kurdish separatists, who have sought an independent state in Turkey's south-east.

Thanks for BBC for publishing such interesting news.

Yilmaz Güney

Yilmaz Güney was and still one of the greatest and most important personal in the history of Kurdish nation. He is truly Kurdish Che Guevara.

Yılmaz Güney was a Kurdish film director, scenarist, novelist and actor. Almost all of his works are devoted to the plight of the Kurdish people.

Born in April first, 1937 to a Kurdish family in a village near the southern city of Adana, Turkey, his father was a Kurd from Siverek, Turkey and his mother was a Kurd from Varto, Turkey.

Güney studied law and economics at the universities in Ankara and Istanbul, but by the age of 21 he found himself actively involved in film-making.

The most popular name to emerge from the Young Turkish Cinema was that of Yılmaz Güney. Güney was a gruff-looking young actor who earned the moniker "Cirkin Kral" in Turkish, which means "the Ugly King" in English.

After apprenticing as a screenwriter for and assistant to Atıf Yılmaz, Güney soon began appearing in as many as 20 films a year and became Turkey's most popular actor.

In 1960 there were a coup in Turkey, as it's usual in Turkish history, which brought some political reform to Turkey, but not regarding Turkey, they restricted Kurdish people more than before, as the result Güney was imprisoned in 1961 for 18 months for publishing a "Communist" novel.

The country's political situation and Güney's relationship with the authorities only became more tense in the ensuing years. Not content with his star status atop the Turkish film industry, Güney began directing his own pictures in 1965 and, by 1968, had formed his own production company, Güney Filmcilik.

Over the next few years, the titles of his films mirrored the feelings of the Kurdish people: Umut which means Hope in 1970, Agit in 1972, Aci in 1971 and Umutsuzlar in 1971.

After 1972, however, Güney would spend most of his life in prison. Arrested for harboring anarchist students, Güney was jailed during preproduction on Zavallilar in 1975, and before completing Endise (1974), which was finished in 1974 by Güney's assistant, Şerif Gören. This was a cherished role that Gören would repeat over the next dozen years, directing several scripts that Güney wrote laboriously while behind bars.

Released from prison in 1974 as part of a general amnesty, Güney was re-arrested that same year for murdering a judge. During this stretch of incarceration, his most successful screenplays were Sürü (The Herd) (1978) and Düsman (1979), both directed by Zeki Ökten.

In an interview with journalist Chris Kutschera, Guney said:

"The Herd, in fact, is the history of the Kurdish people, but I could not even use the Kurdish language in this film; if we had used the Kurdish language, all those who took part in this film would have been sent to jail..."

After escaping from prison in 1981 and fleeing to France, Güney won the Palme d'Or at the 1982 Cannes Film Festival for his film Yol, whose director in the field was once again Şerif Gören. It was not until 1983 that Güney resumed directing, telling a brutal tale of imprisoned children in his final film, Duvar, the Wall in 1983, made in France with the cooperation of the French government.

Güney remains a highly controversial figure in Turkish and Kurdish political and art circles. His works are still highly regarded by cinema critics.

Read my previous post about this great man:

Yilmaz Guney talking about being Kurd

More coming about this great man.

Yilmaz Guney talking about being Kurd

A very rare movie, in this short, but very great, movie, our Hero Yilmaz Güney talks about being a Kurd, he is saying that his mother and his father were Kurds.

It's written in Wikipedia:

"Yilmaz Guney was born in 1937 in a village near the southern city of Adana, Turkey. His father is a Kurd from Siverek, Turkey and his mother is a Kurd from Varto, Turkey."

"The Herd, in fact, is the history of the Kurdish people, but I could not even use the Kurdish language in this film; if we had used Kurdish, all those who took part in this film would have been sent to jail..." Güney said in his last interview with journalist Chris Kutschera.


Enjoy ....

Nelson Mandela's 90th Birthday - Happy Birthday

Friday 27th June, will be the 90th Birthday of great hero of all the times "Nelson Mandela", for this reason some volunteers initiates a very big campaign on the net, letting people all around the world to send Birthday wishes to this great man, even there were a video on the popular site of YouTube advertising for this campaign, click here to see the video, you will see in this video that Mr. Golden Brown also speaking on the behalf of this campaign, he said:

So please join me, and send your SMS today. This is your birth gift to the world's most love statements, on his memory born 90th Birthday.

It's written in their official website "Happy Birthday Mandela":

"Send your birthday wishes to Mr Nelson Mandela and join people from around the world in celebrating his 90th birthday on July 18th.
Your message will be included in our campaign to make the biggest birthday card ever, and you never know your message might even be up on a big screen at Hyde Park on June 27th!
The campaign hopes to raise much needed funds for Mr Mandela's charities, helping them all continue his legacy."

This honorable great leader, Nelson Mandela, once refused to receive the Atatürk Peace Award in 1992 by Turkey. He refused the Award because bad treatment of Turkish goverment toward Kurdish people and human rights violations committed by Turkey.

The official Site of The African National Congress said:

"STATEMENT ON THE ATATURK AWARD GIVEN TO Nelson Mandela

The African National Congress is aware of the announcement by the Government of Turkey that the Ataturk Award will be presented to ANC President on 19 May.

Nelson Mandela has spent his whole life in the service of democracy, human rights and freedom from oppression.

The ANC wishes to state quite categorically that Mr Mandela has not accepted the Ataturk Award, and has no plans to visit Turkey. The ANC's attitude does not reflect any negative view of Kemal Ataturk, the reformer and founder of modern Turkey."

And look what they said to this great man when he refused the Award:

The 'Ataturk Peace Award', which has been awarded since 1984, was awarded to Nelson Mandela in 1992 for being anti-racist and a hero. When he refused the award because of the oppression of the Kurds, he was called "An insolent African", "An ugly African" and "The terrorist Mandela".

But later accepted the award in 1999, after intensive pressure by international community.


Happy Birthday Sir, may our world fill with people like you....