From : nserjoon@yahoo.co.uk
Sent : Sunday, September 4, 2005 8:45 PM
To : arabtimesnewspaper@hotmail.com

Dear Dr. Fawzi

Is it possible to know whether Mr Amir Oghlo (one of your writers) is Arabic or Kurdish. It is just we had an impression from what he is trying to say that he is Kurdish but under his name (which is like Kurdish name) it was written that he is an Arab writer from Iraq. I have nothing against him whether he is Kurdish or Arab, but it is sometime important to know the real background of the writer.

If you read an article about Arab written by an Israeli writer or Arab writer you can understand why it might be full of negative points for the Israeli one or positive points for the Arab one and the significane of it would be more judged.

Nowadays there are frankly an attempt from the western Media to create some hostility between Arab and Kurds as if Arab who devided the Kurdish nation and land with all resposibility for the Kurds suffe. Unfortunately, some Kurdish writers rided the wave against their historical allies (Arabs) and started trying to destebilise some Arab countries where there are some minority Kurds hoping that would lead to pressurises to free Kurdestan.

Mr Oghlo always attacks the Syrian government for example mainly when he talks about Kurds, but myself I know many Syrian Kurds who tell me that they have full writes as any Syrians and many of them are in the government and security services (e.g. Rostom Ghazaleh). The only Kurds who are not considered Syrians are the Kurds who fled from Turkey and Iraq in the last years where the Syrian government gave them the land to live and build houses and farms without citizenship since they are refugees. It might be write to say that after 20 years they should be considered Syrians but that does not justify to say that all Kurds in Syria suffer as Mr Oghlo is trying to tell us repeatedly.

Many thanks.