Alam writing to protest at the ill-informed and impressionable article on Kurdistan in SO of the 17th April Having been to Turkey three times and İraqi Kurdistan twice in the last year, and having poken to Barzani in some Geoff Ryan has concocted his article by reading the British press and certain sectarian pamphlets.
The reality is different. The Kurds in Iraq support Barzani Kurdistan Front because they represent forty to afty years of historical struggle The Kurdistan Front (KF) is a broad united front of eight parties that covers not only the 'big wo' of the KDP and PUK but also communists, socialists and the ethnic minorities of the Assyrians and Turkomans.
Currently it controls opulation of three or four mil on and is the longest lasting autonomous government the Kurds have ever had.
Faced by an Iraqi blockade that has crippled most public services anc cut off food and with a Turkish armed forces of over a million glowering across the Northern frontier, now is not the time for any adventunism The PKK's strategy of sitting in the Bekaa Valley as a client of Syria and send in small teams to attack targets is one the KF could foliow, but it would leave the Kurdish people to the mercy of Saddam and would be a crass betrayal.
All tne resn wierta we spoke to are determined to stand and nant. barzam and lalabant are determined to stand with them. Dalish sociausts need to raise cal support for Free Kurdistan Ine PkK is irrelevant in thi debate and is not 'the leadership Ryan asserts.
Keith Veness