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Kurdistan flag waving over EU capital Brussels

2012-06-01  In an official ceremony, the Kurdish national flag has been raised for the first time abroad. The flag has been lifted in front of the Kurdistan Regional Government – KRG Mission to the EU in Brussels.

Kurdistan flag waving over EU capital Brussels

By Roni Alasor / Lorin Sarkisian – Ararat News Publishing (ANP), 31 May 2012, Brussels -The Kurdish national flag has been raised for the first time abroad with an official ceremony attended by over 100 guests. The flag has been lifted in front of the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) Mission to the EU in Brussels by Carlos Kurdi, Head of the KRG Mission.

         

Kurdish political representatives from different parts of Kurdistan, intellectuals and journalists attended to the Kurdish flag ceremony. Among them: Omar Zawitey, Kurdistan Democrat Party (KDP) Representative in Holland; members of KDP in Belgium; Zana Hawramani, Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK) Representative in Belgium / relations with the European Parliament; Kawa Ahangari, KDP Iran Representative in Belgium; Azad Kurdi KDP- I in Belgium; Hunermend Rahimo Husein, Representative of Party Yeketi Kurd Syria and Member of Syrian National Council; Wezirê Eşo, Kurdish writer and historian from Armenia; Pervine Jamal, Kurdish Bureau in Brussels ; Derwich Ferho, Kurdish Institute of Brussels; Journalists from Kurdistan TV, Kurdsat, Ararat News Publishing (ANP) /  AKnews and Rudaw Newspaper.

 

Head of KRG – EU Mission Carlos Kurdi

Many small and colonised nations, even the clans got the right for own states and flags 100 years ago. But the Kurds and all Kurdistani people with different ethnic and religious origin have been divided by big powers after First World War and Kurdistan region were giving to Iran, Iraq, Turkey and Syria as a ”gift” . Today in 21. Century, over 40 million Kurdistani people are without state and they even didn’t have “authorisation” to raise their flag. But even so, Head of KRG Mission to the EU Carlos Kurdi do believe that it’s “never late” :“Kurdish people have been fighting hundreds of years for freedom, independence and national flag. Many hundred thousand Kurds have been killed; millions have been tortured, imprisoned or had to go into exile, because of their fight for freedom, independence and right for self determination. The world has always been injustice to more than 40 million Kurdistani people. Today we finally have this historic opportunity to raise our flag over KRG Mission. This is another step of international recognition for Kurds. As every nation, Kurds have right for independence, but we still believe we can achieve it in a peaceful way”.

 

Omar Zawitey, the Representative of KDP-Holland expressed his feelings on this historical for all Kurds day: “As our President Messoud Barzani says, to be a state is our fundamental right and no one can deprive us from it. The same is valid for the Kurdish flag. Like every nation, we have right for flag and independence. Today’s raising of the Kurdish flag in Brussels is advancing us one step closer to our full right to exist as nation in independence. This is a dream for all the Kurds. As our President also often says, we’ve always wanted that every change will happen in peaceful way and no human life will be lost in wars or armed conflicts”.

 

Wezirê Eşo, Kurdish writer and historian: “Raising Kurdish flag over KRG EU Representation is a historical day and happiness for Kurds from four parts of Kurdistan and the Diaspora. I am 77 years old and I am happy that I could see with my own eyes this flag waving over EU capital. This fundamental right was a dream for us”.

 

Zana Hawramani, PUK Representative in Belgium / relations with the European Parliament ; “Raising the Kurdish flag in the European capital is a great day and happiness for Kurds from all parts of Kurdistan and all the Kurdistani people. We, Kurds, like every nation have right for our flag as well. No one can take this fundamental right from us”.

 

Hunermend Rahimo Husein, Representative of Party Yeketi Kurd Syria and Member of Syrian National Council: “This historic day is also good news for all the martyrs who sacrificed their life for Kurdistan and for their children. I hope that this will be a positive step towards independence. All Kurds from four parts of Kurdistan should find a common strategy for freedom for all of us, so that this land will again become a cradle of the world civilization, as it has been thousands of years ago”.

       

Earlier this year, Belgium, which is hosting EU institutions, NATO and several hundred of international organisations and NGO’s, authorized Kurdish national flag to be raised over KRG Mission to EU in Brussels. Currently there are about 210 foreign embassies / Missions to the EU in Brussels.

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