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Jim Walton, President, CNN News Group : [email protected]
Campbell Brown, Anchor [email protected]
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Mr. Jim Walton
President, CNN Worldwide
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Atlanta, GA 30303
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ÖRNEK MEKTUPLAR:
Letter 1: I would like to report something so disturbing to me. On 21 August 2009, Campbell
Brown showed a map in her show carving out a country called Kurdistan from the Republic of
Turkey and her neighbors. There is no such country and I expect a major news organization like
CNN to know better. This is more than disrespect. This is insult and a malicious lie unbecoming
a friend like the United States to level on a reliable, long time ally like Turkey. CNN should
immediately correct this issue and apologize for insulting the Turkish nation.
Letter 2: With the launching of the new approach (Kurt Acilimi) in Turkey, designed to solve the
25 year old terror problem there created by the PKK, a group recognized as terrorist by the
U.S., E.U. Turkey, and much of the world, misrepresentations of Kurdish issue in and out of
Turkey seem to have escalated in the world media. An imaginary map, emanating from beliefs
and wishful thinking, showing wide swaths of territories in Turkey, Iran, Iraq, and Syria is
presented to unsuspecting readers as if it is the internationally recognized country of Kurdistan.
Such abuse of goodwill does not help efforts to find a peaceful solution. Turks and Kurds are
equal citizens under the Turkish constitution today and amalgamated over the millennium they
have lived together in Anatolia into a very strong, common culture. A Turkish saying goes
“Turks and Kurds are inseparable like flesh and nail.” Kurds are represented in all walks of life
with seven former presidents of the Republic of Turkey having Kurdish connection. Devious
attempts to divide Turkey, in spite of the Lausanne agreement of 1923, which had already dealt
with all ethnic and religious issues, is counter-productive and hurt efforts to promote peace.
Letter 3:
Dear CNN or To Whom It May Concern:
I am a regular CNN viewer and I have relied on you for news and analysis of many of the major
international events. I am very disappointed of CNN broadcasting about a map of the Republic
of Turkey which half of country was shown as “Kurdistan” on Campbell Brown’s program on
August 21st at 8.47 PM. As a respected news organization, CNN has a special responsibility to
ensure the accuracy of its reporting, especially on an issue as important as to the Republic of
Turkey’s territorial integrity and its Kurdish citizens and Iraq.
There is no such a thing as “Kurdistan” in the Middle East. Kurdistan is not an internationally
recognized name for the region. It is a name used by Kurdish terrorist groups to indicate their
ambition which is to form a state in the region someday in the future. This imaginative
Kurdistan state requires changes of current borders of Iran, Syria, Turkey and Iraq. When you
use the name Kurdistan, you are unintentionally supporting Kurdish terrorist group’s objectives.
I cannot imagine this can be your purpose. The Kurdish PKK terrorist group has taken 40,000
lives in Turkey to date. They are not just brutal killers, but drug smugglers and human
traffickers.
Millions of Turkish people along with people of Kurdish origin live in the part of the so called
Kurdistan region that you reported within the Republic of Turkey’s borders. Current borders of
the Republic of Turkey was established by Lausanne Treaty in 1923. There was no Kurdistan
state neither before this date or nor after this date. This region is called South East Anatolia,
not Kurdistan. Please make the corrections to your maps and facts for the future. The Republic
of Turkey, like the US, is a multi ethnic and cultural nation.” Turks” much like “Americans”
represent a large variety of ethnic and religious backgrounds. Kurdish ethnicity is one of many,
which also include
Circassian’s, Abkhaz, Georgians, Bosnians, Albanians, Azeri’s, Laz, Turkmen, Tatar and many
more. All unite in their Turkish citizenship, while freely celebrating their rich ethnic identity,
language and local cultures. In sum, Kurds enjoy equal opportunity to pursue their political,
social and economic ambitions in the Republic of Turkey. The vast minority who supports the
terrorist PKK is willing to have a so called Kurdistan. Let me remind you that the PKK is listed
as a terrorist organization internationally by a number of states and organizations, including
the U.S., NATO and the EU.
The PKK has conducted terrorist activities since 1974 as defined in US legislation section 212
(a)(3)(B) of the INA (8 U.S.C. § 1182(a)(3)(B)) and as defined in section 140(d)(2) of the U.S.
Foreign Relations Authorization
Act.
According to the U.S. State Department, PKK is a leftist insurgent terrorist group that originally
aimed to establish an independent Kurdish homeland in the ethnically Kurdish regions of the
Middle East, which overlap the borders of the Republic of Turkey, Iran, Iraq, and Syria. The
PKK was founded in 1974 as a Marxist-Leninist group seeking to establish a Marxist Kurdish
state in Southeast Turkey. The group launched a guerilla war against the Turkish government
beginning in 1984 that claimed as many as 40,000 lives. More recently, the group has claimed
to be seeking greater political and cultural rights for Kurds within the Republic of Turkey rather than a separate homeland. CNN shouldn’t support and broadcast any false news or information about
the territorial integrity of the Republic of Turkey, a stanch ally of the US in a chaotic region of
the Middle East.
I truly hope that CNN takes into consideration not supporting the Terrorist organization views
and immediately make’s the necessary changes to the maps it uses for the region.
The Turkish American community expects fair treatment on these sensitive issues and hopes
that CNN can be objective and share the correct information with CNN viewers.
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Letter 4:
Dear CNN or To Whom It May Concern:
As a Turkish American I was simply insulted and outraged when CNN broadcasted a map of
The Republic of Turkey which half of the country was shown as “Kurdistan” on Campbell
Brown’s program on August 21st at 8.47 PM. The south eastern part of the Republic of Turkey
was shown as part of Kurdistan.
This is like showing Texas, New Mexico and Arizona as Mexican territory.
Mrs. Campbell/ CNN the current borders of The Republic of Turkey was established by
Lausanne Treaty in 1923. There was no Kurdistan state neither before this date or nor after this
date.
The map you displayed looked like a product of the PKK terrorist organization (i.e. listed as a
terrorist organization in US and Europe) that has taken 40,000 innocent lives in Turkey in the
past two decades. But I cannot öunderstand how CNN would post such a miss leading map of
the region. I imagine the last thing that CNN wants is to become a tool for a terrorist
organization.
I am sure representatives of the Turkish Embassy in US or Turkish Consulates in other major
cities of US such as New York, Washington DC, and Chicago would be happy to review the
sensitive contents such as maps of the region or any information about the Republic of Turkey
before it gets aired. It is a shame that a large media establishment which should be unbiased
would air such a distorted map of the Republic of Turkey, since there is no such country named
“Kurdistan “especially within the borders of the Turkish Republic!
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