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Adnan Harun Yahya

Europeans say, 'The biggest minority in Turkey is the Kurds'. I am a true

Kurd. And as a Kurdish member of the Parliament, I can assure you that
Kurds do not want anything. They only want the welfare and safety of Turks,

their big brothers (Loud applause). We, Kurds, gladly trampled all the rights
Europe wanted to give to us with that excuse of a treaty, called Sévres, and
returned it back to them. Remember how we fought in Al Jazeera (Arabian

Peninsula) (Another round of applause). Remember how we sacrificed our-
selves and joined the Turks, we didn't leave them, and didn't want to leave
them. We don't and won't want to leave them (Another round of applause).

As I finish my words, I'm kindly asking our delegates [in Lausanne], to make
sure that when the minority issue comes up, they make it clear that Kurds have
no claims or demands and that they repeat my words here as a spokesperson

for the Kurdish people… 371

Durak (Sakarya) Bey, who was an Erzurum MP, said that throughout the

history of Islam, Turks and Kurds mingled and families became one in Ana-
tolia. 372

In a motion submitted on behalf of Mardin MPs, the Turkish delegation
at the Conference of Lausanne was asked to declare that Turks and Kurds

were one and a whole. Van MP Hakkı Ungan Bey said that it should be made
clear in Lausanne that Kurds cannot be differentiated from Turks. 373

Without doubt, neither the Kurdish population in Mosul, nor those in

Anatolia, saw themselves any different than the Turks nor it was possible to
separate them from each other. The indigenous people wanted to live un-
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der the same roof as the Turks and Kurds just like before, in other words they
wanted to continue to live under Turkish rule. Even Arabs didn't want the

British mandate and declared 'it is either Turkish rule or independence'. So
much so, it became a common occurrence for the Kurds conscripted by the

Iraqi government to switch to Turks' side. 375

Before the war, in the region covering Mosul, Kirkuk, Sulaymaniyah and
Erbil, the languages used for writing had been Turkish, Arabic and Persian.

However, the British in the region took it on themselves to develop the Kur-

dish language and its written form. After a while, the British authorities turned
Kurdish into a communication tool. Although the local people insisted us-