Are Bashuris prejudice towards other Kurds?

[Shirko]

I would like to know what some other people think of the attitude of Bushuris (from Southern Kurdistan) towards other Kurds. In person I have only meet a few Kurds from SK and they seemed OK, but I have seen many negative comments and attitudes on the net coming from them towards other Kurds. Some comments were like that they are the most patriotic, or fought the most, or they think that they are more Kurdish than others, and I have recently seen some negative comments about the refugees coming from WK and Syria.

Kindly leave respectable comments, this is not meNt to be a privicational question, but we need to get to the bottom of this.

[Feyli_kord]

Of course all attitudes differ. Not all kurds are united. Not all kurds love other kurdish tribes or kurds who speak other dialects. But that is a process that kurdish people will have to go through, before we can aim for independence. This will take time. If kurds were well armed and well supplied however, and united, we could easily take kurdish part of turkey.

[Shirko]

If Kurds are united they could take the Middle East not just NK.

[Piling]

As a foreigner i have not the same behavior from Kurds (Kurds in general are angels with strangers and fought each others like devils), but I have travelled in many places and heard often Kurds talking about other Kurds.

There is one thing I've heard from some N. Kurds. They complain that S. Kurds don't consider them as real Kurds because they don't speak Kurdish (only Turkish). They can't imagine that a Kurd can not speak Kurdish.

Concerning who fought the most or who suffered the most, I have also heard in HADEP HQ some N. Kurds saying "in Bashur, there was not such things as 5000 destroyed villages'. And they were surprised to learn that villages in Bashur had burnt 10 years before Dirty War in Turkey and that Anfal was worse. PKK propaganda forgot to teach them that history.

So there are many prejudices because of ignorance and closed borders, from all sides.

Now the new prosperity in S. Kurdistan could incite other Kurds to be jealous (especially PKK supporters) and call them capitalists, liberals, upstart, etc. And lazy : for W. and N. Kurds are working hard in KRG, while Bashuris want only to make business or being State Worker or Peshmergas.

But I have heard more negative opinions from Bashuris towards other Bashuris : for example, toward Behdinan people and Behdinî from Silêmanî people and the contrary also. And of course, politics do not soften their relations.

I have heard also some Kurdish muslims from Bashur having bad opinion about Yezidis religion, while some N. Kurds (especially Alevis) and Eastern Kurds (especially Yarsans) praise Yezidis as 'true Kurds'.

I have also heard in N. Kurdistan Dersimi Alevis prejudices against Shafei Kurds (Alevi fear of Islam).

In fact, 'Kurdish bashing' is a national sport

There is also a huge difference between Kurds from diaspora and Kurds who have stayed in Kurdistan.

[Anthea]

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[talsor]

Writing to you from southern Kurdistan , It is heaven here , but hot as hell .

I think when you put the politics and religion aside we are all the same .

[Piling]

Hell & Paradise in the same place, that's right : Kurdistan in summer !

Have a nice time.

[Anthea]

Writing to you from southern Kurdistan , It is heaven here , but hot as hell .

I think when you put the politics and religion aside we are all the same .

In England when they say it is 30c that is in the shade - it is probably 45-50c in direct sun

In Kurdistan - when they say it is 48c - do they mean 48c in the shade or in the sun?
If it is 48c in the shade that would make it 70c 80c or even 90c in direct sunlight

[Piling]

If it is 48c in the shade that would make it 70c 80c or even 90c in direct sunlight

In direct sunlight, you can cook an egg on a stone. And it explains why Kurdish clothes have thick fabrics : if you sit down on a place burnt by the sun with a light skirt or trousers you will smell roasted pork