I was replying to THIS post - is that ok with you?

 This is completely different - I am not suggesting that immigrants should be permitted to speak their own language in parliament.  You do not need to lecture me about immigrants - we know more about them than you do".

 Again, I was replying to Sui´s question.  Yes we colonized, oppressed and are happy to criticise our history (and present).  Come back and argue when you can do the same.

 Ouh how ignorant I am

Yes I see your point completely.  These Kurds are immigrants - how dare they demand rights!  Let me just see if I got my history right.... when the Turkish Republic was formed it consisted of just pure blood Turks.  Then nasty Armenians, Kurds and Greeks moved in.......?

 Are you ok?

I am starting get suspicious about your health really...

Even though you are trying to be sarcastic... its sooo awful to hear such things...

I am sure  she was being sarcastic but the truth is that we kicked out Armenians and Greeks years ago but kurds were quite numerous so we could not do that. 

This is the article caught my eye this morning.

Though it is not relevant directly to Ahmet Turk speaking kurdish in the parliment, but it tells us what mistakes we have been making all along ragarding  our Kurdish Problem:

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One obvious example we encounter is the use of the word Kurd. For years we tried not to use the word Kurd.

We feared if we used the word Kurd some people would remember they were Kurdish. We couldn’t comprehend that even if we did not use the word Kurd and tried to make them forget they still would not give up their Kurdish identity. As a matter of fact, even though so many years have passed, we see today that nobody forgot about their Kurdish identity but only deceived us. ...

We have a hidden fear inside us. We are concerned that if we use this word someday there will be a Kurdistan established in some part of our country. For a substantial part of our society this is a valid fear. Thus we constantly call it northern Iraq. We justify ourselves by saying "We respect Iraq’s territorial integrity and call it that because we want to show that we oppose the Kurd’s wish for independence."

In contrast, the Iraqi Constitution states it as the "Iraqi Kurdistan Autonomous Region." A similar definition is present in Iran. This means that Iraq and Iran have no such worries. But we have not been able to get rid of our suspicions....

full article

http://www.hurriyet.com.tr/english/opinion/11136802.asp?yazarid=298&gid=260

Actually Armenians forced Turks to kick themselves.

There was mutual agreement between Turks and Greeks to exchange population. So we didn´t kick them.

What makes you think we should have kicked the Kurds. We fought together against the condors occupying Anatolia.

No we cannot do the same. We didn´t colonized, we didn´t oppressed. Not much to citicise on our part.

What is the percentage of Welsh spoken in Wales, Scottish in Scotland and Irish in Eire? Poor guys, most of them cannot speak their language, right?

Go ad search about  what rights Basque Regions in France have. Education, Law, TV, Radio.... everything is in their own language. And to compare Kurdish  in Turkey to immigrants in Europe is the lowest comment in this site.

ha ha

You are still at the same rethoric with the armenian issue: "yes, we did it, if necessary we will do it again"

Lets do not get into  how our primitive nationalism got rid of Greeks from Turkey..The history will embarres us as it was more than just a agreement for exchanging the population. 

yes..we fought together but years later we start going at them with  ´one nation one state´ slogans..

you are joking..Right?