Google Earth Community: Iraq Kurdistan and other places- update 9/4/07

Having read all your and others' posts, would you mind let me put a statement here?

As my friend Sirous told, it is well felt nationalistic/racist since you are expressing one people and constructing your work on a "national" basis. Since all the cities are formed by many peoples' (and the percentages in "most" of them are well close enough to say they are almost equal), you cannot argue that this and that is a Kurdish city. Nor can you argue things like in Kirkuk (your sentence: "It started off as a small Kurdish town") because no one can prove the situation in the old days and even one year ago since the land registrations were fired by the Kurdish groups.

And, there are some minorities, as well, in those cities. This is a clue that the cities are not Kurdish in origin. History and time changes things. In fact, it is those minorities who must be secured and more talked about because they are our own background, as well. (I say this not against you but only as a proof of my arguments)

Also, let me tell you that even Istanbul was not placemarked a few months ago and, thus, you do not need to worry because people there will be starting placemarking.

Anyway, I do not think you can easily understand what Sirous and I mean. But let me tell that your type of sentences are not in the way they should be.

Also, one thing for those who read this thread (and the paragraphs below are not to criticise you, my friend**). (1) Kurdish people are not unique. They have different languages. (2) Coincidentally, in history, none of the groups have ever claimed to rule their people and prefered to stay with any stronger power because they are under feudalic formations. (3) They also tend to evolve towards the neighboring cities.

For all these reasons, there is no map of theirs and all those mappers from outside the region fell into a difficulty -- they simply do not understand the fact. We live together but all the other minorities disappear from the history whose names I will not mention here.

Again, for all these reasons, they are not adopted to the cities they evolve, like Istanbul, Ankara, Adana, Mersin, etc. I do not know the other countries, so it is not my job to speak for them.

Again, for all these reasons, there are the borders there. Kurds in Turkey fought against imperials and formed Turkey together with the other peoples in Turkey. Kurds in Iran stood strong with their kingdom. And Kurds in Iraq benefited from the oil-full territories of the Crown's Iraq -- they did not fight for freedom in our independence war like those within our borders did fight and these latter made request from their grandchildren to be with Turkey forever.

EDIT: **: Because people nowadays read things and easily make conclusions by only their own ideas.

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Edited by tekgergedan (01/08/06 08:42 PM)