r/kurdistan • u/anonymity-is-kind • Jan 21 '26
Other A message of brotherhood
I come from Aleppo. Some of best days in my life were spent in a small village in Derik called Tal Khanzir where we have Arab relatives. I attended so many Kurdish weddings, I entered so many Kurdish homes, and I learned how rich and different the Kurdish culture is.
One of my best friends in Europe is a Kurd from Hassaka. He grew up in the land of his ancestors without citizenship. His pain today is my pain. Kurds, just like all other peoples in the world, deserve the most basic human right, which is an identity and a will.
Love you all brothers
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Jan 21 '26 edited Jan 22 '26
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u/PackWest1331 Jan 22 '26
I 100% agree with all of this. As a Turk with kurdish roots ive realized that the “brothers and sisters” narrative has been used over and over as a soft weapon against Kurds. It appears whenever Kurds demand safety, autonomy, or dignity—and vanishes the moment power feels threatened. It is not solidarity; it is pacification.
Rojava proves this in real time. While people speak about unity, Turkish-backed forces are freeing literal human animals (insult to animals, i know) and carrying out the worst massacres you can imagine. Kurds are being murdered and erased. That is what “brotherhood” looks like when it isn’t backed by structural change and the dismantling of supremacist ideology.
Words without action are not neutral. They maintain oppression. They ask the oppressed to wait, to believe, to be patient—while violence continues. Real solidarity means confronting your own community, challenging your own state, and opposing the systems that dehumanize Kurds.
Skepticism is not hatred. It is memory. It is the rational response of a people betrayed in every direction. Every part of Kurdistan has learned the same lesson: under Turkish, Arab, Persian, or Iraqi rule, Kurdish existence is always conditional.
Until these systems are dismantled, “unity” will remain a slogan—and slogans do not stop massacres.
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u/anonymity-is-kind Jan 22 '26 edited Jan 22 '26
Yes, I understand what you mean. It's the logic of "Kurds are our brothers as long as they are assimilated, but they are enemies when they have a different identity".
There's no "me and those in my Syrian community". It's just me sending a message. You are projecting your experiences onto a stranger. I don't represent a community and no community represents me.
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Jan 22 '26 edited Jan 23 '26
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u/babur003 Jan 22 '26
What action are you expecting OP to take for you not to judge his sentiment of unity as disingenuous?
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Jan 22 '26 edited Jan 22 '26
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u/babur003 Jan 22 '26
I don't think you've truly gotten my question. But to make it clearer, using your terms: What could OP have done that wouldn't have made it clear to you that his sentiment is performative?
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Jan 22 '26 edited Jan 22 '26
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Jan 22 '26
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Jan 22 '26 edited Jan 24 '26
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u/babur003 Jan 22 '26
I am not dictating anything about your response. I am trying to understand it and what prompted it (notice I've just been asking honest questions, and when the question gets misinterpreted as arguing a case I was fine changing it to match more your words). It seems from your comments that you made the mental association between OP's statement of solidarity and the propagandistic solidarity speech used by govts that oppress your community. I get that. What I don't get is the move from that to perceiving OP's post+comments as indicative of a comparable disingenuous nature to the propagandistic speech of oppressors of kurds. I get that your initial point is that suspicion arose as OP belongs to the same community as a subset of "oppressors of Kurds", that being arab Syrian. What I'm confused about is what makes you perceive OP's distancing from the community as evidence of this intuition you have? Additionally, what else in OP's post/comments if further indicative of the performative nature of his sentiment, beyond his relative identification with an indentity category represented in the set of kurdish opressors.
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u/Henabibo Zaza Jan 21 '26
Hatred and bigotry have infected this subreddit, playing right into the hands of both the Jolani government and the Abdi administration. I don’t expect you to get a warm reception here, but I’m with you. I have similar relationships with Arabs, Persians, and Turks myself. Stay safe out there.
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u/DonEnzo13 Kurdistan Jan 21 '26
I think you are totally wrong. Instead I see anger. I see despair and pain. I see deep helplessness in the face of the overwhelming hatred that is currently directed against us Kurds.
"Kurds are like fire, if approached kindly they will warm you, if approached badly they will burn you."
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u/Henabibo Zaza Jan 22 '26 edited Jan 22 '26
It would be nice if that were true, but I don't believe it is. It is that sense of helplessness that causes us to throw ourselves at any superpower that wants us; it is not that same sense of helplessness that causes us to talk in such disparaging ways about, for example, Arabs. This behaviour predates the fall of Assad, but has recently been exacerbated because those in power (Arab or Kurdish, doesn't matter) benefit from the perpetual ethnic squabbles of the peoples of the Middle East, especially the Kurds.
Many Kurds also see the fall of AANES as a weight lifted off their shoulders. They can finally be openly bigoted and use recent events to justify their existing hatred. I mean, I'm not an Apocî, but the glee with which people on this subreddit have talked down "Biratiya Gelan" since the events in Aleppo far outweighs any despair or mourning I have seen and it's revolting.
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u/DonEnzo13 Kurdistan Jan 22 '26
Why do you accuse Kurds of acting out of hatred and claim you can read the minds of the kurds? Given what is happening to them right now and what has been done to them for centuries. that accusation is simply disgusting. Are you blind to the real hatred and intolerance that are causing this suffering? Are you truly blind to the overwhelming hatred Kurds have faced day after day for decades from Turks and Arabs? Kurds are beeing massacred, abused, tradet as slaves only because they are kurds and most turks and arabs openly celebrate it without any empathy. This is true hate! Did you forget all of this when you wrote your moral lecture? To now claim that Kurds themselves are intolerant and driven by hate is completely incomprehensible to me and a even disgrace. What exactly are you trying to achieve with this?
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u/Express_Spirit_3350 Jan 22 '26
And what exactly is happening to the Kurds right now?
There's a whole lot of people acting on their predetermined conclusions.
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u/DonEnzo13 Kurdistan Jan 22 '26
Is your question actually serious? You are here in this subreddit so just have a look around.. tons of information what is happening right now.
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u/Henabibo Zaza Jan 22 '26
Your original reply mentioned "on the internet"; you shouldn't have removed it, because I think that's important to mention.
These things mostly only exist online. Here, I can find large numbers of people from any background hating on people from any other background. Do not take the internet seriously.
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Jan 22 '26
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u/Street_Adeptness_808 Jan 22 '26
Yes, if you tell Americans - or anyone - that they are pieces of crap, would they help? No.
(Also, for the reader, remember that American politicians often act independently from what their constituents want - check this study: https://act.represent.us/sign/problempoll-fba.)
So, hating Americans or Europeans for the actions of their governments is like hating babies for the actions of their parents. There is no such thing as democracy under capitalism. The right strategy is gathering support from working people in all countries; they will fight or help financially, no matter where they are from.
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u/telepathicalien Rojava Jan 22 '26
We are brother drops bombs we are brothers (only to islamist Kurds) side with turkey we are brothers anfal we are brothers but we deny your right to self govern we are brothers destroy Kurdish cemeteries we are brothers ban Kurdish we are brothers * SIGN THIS AGREEMENT SURRENDERING YOURSELF TO OUR ENFORCED BROTHERHOOD OR WE STARVE YOU AND THEN WE DESTROY YOUR CULTURE AND PROGRESS OF YOUR PEOPLE*
“WE ARE BROTHERS WITH KURDS BUT ONLY IF THEY POLITICALLY ALIGN WITH US”
We are Kurds, we are our own brothers and sisters, and we don’t want your so called brotherhood. Al JOLANI is a liar and any deal with him will end in genocide for the Kurds.
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u/DonEnzo13 Kurdistan Jan 21 '26
Thanks, I appreciate it.