Turkish Prime Minister has not developed as a political figure, said Kurdish activist, director of American-Kurdish Information Network (AKIN) Kani Xulam.

In an e-mail letter to Armenian News-NEWS.am, the Kurdish activist residing in U.S. commented on recent apology for the Dersim massacres by Turkish PM Recep Tayyip Erdogan .    

According to him, although Erdogan’s apology was unexpected it meant nothing.

“His conditional use of the word, ‘If,’ at the beginning of his so called apology is quite telling.  He doesn’t mean it; he doesn’t feel it.  Dersim continues to remain disenfranchised as ever. Seventy or so years after the infamous massacre, it is now being buried by water due to the dams that the government of Turkey is building in the region.

If he really means what he says, he would listen to people still living instead of just apologizing for the dead.  I guess he knows the Roman saying, ‘The dead can not bite’,” Xulam said. 

He considers that Erdogan has sickness for headlines that are often devoid of meaning or truth or goodness.

“He says Kurdish is legal in Turkey and that he has allowed a Kurdish television. He is basically lying on both counts.  Kurdish remains illegal in Turkey.  When Kurds in Diyarbakir who are accused of being members of KCK want to defend themselves in Kurdish, the Judge tells them they are speaking in an unknown language,” he said.

As to the Kurdish television, Xulum claims it is controlled by Turks who are pretty much telling some Kurdish speaking Kurds what to tell the rest of the Kurds who are trapped in a political concoction called Turkey.

“For example, they are not allowed to use the word, Kurdistan.  In other words, Erdogan and his ilk are the cancer of the Kurds.  Kurds will only heal and feel their humanity when they have put a border between themselves and the Turks. Till that auspicious development happens, Erdogan is only fooling himself,” he concluded.