CENTRAL NEWS
While clashes between Armenia and Azerbaijan continue, Turkish fascism has presented itself in many lights over the past days of conflict.
Turkey’s anti-Armenia or anti-Kurd sentiment proves itself to surpass a mere hostility towards ethnic minorities in ‘Turkey,’ revealing to be a deep fascism with each passing day. Today, the flags of Azerbaijan and Turkey were hung up in the capital of Kurdistan, a city which is historically populated by both Kurds and Armenians who lived peacefully for centuries.
A trustee, member of the AKP, who was appointed to the position of a democratically elected member of the HDP on charges of terrorism, hung the flags of Azerbaijan and Turkey side by side on the walls of Amed. The flags were hung on the Double Doors side of the historical city walls, which are on the UNESCO World Cultural Heritage List.
A photo of the flags were shared from the social media account of the Sur Municipality under the management of the usurper trustee, Governor Münir Karaloğlu, shared the photo with the message: “We are next to our Azeri brothers”.
Sur walls
The Sur or 1,700-year-old city walls of the historic city of Amed were built by its inhabitants, mainly Kurds as well as Armenians, as protection from outside forces. The walls carry significant meaning for the people of the region making them a constant target for the fascist AKP government. A large part of the walls were broken down by the AKP government in the name of urban modernization disguised as an attack against the values of the local people. Another part of the walls is being destroyed in the name of restoration works, which were eventually stopped by UNESCO which shared a report stating that the restoration was incorrectly done and the archaeological traces were destroyed.
Recently, another 500 day restoration project costing 9 million 471 thousand TL was started in new attempts to rewrite Kurdish history. The UNESCO responded by warning that the walls could be removed from the world heritage list should the project continue.
The then Governor of Sur, a fascist, had ordered the 250-meter-long walls be destroyed by artillery shots in 1930 because there was “no air inside the city.”
