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„It is clear that the character and form of Euro-Atlantic civilization has been changing almost in front of our eyes and that the whole world is getting into a new kind of movement. It is also clear that the movement has and will have some influence on the quality of life of each of us and on our national existence in the center of Europe,“ we could hear on Monday evening,as usual, in Czech on the Slovak broadcaster Slobodný vysielač. In his show “On the Verge of Changes“ The former Police President Stanislav Novotný, welcomed perhaps the biggest victim of the Czech justice Mafia after November 1989 – the activist, writer, doctor and businessman with Kurdish-Armenian roots – Yekta Uzunoglu.
Yekta Uzunoglu was born in 1953 in Turkish Silván. The original name of the town was Farquin, it used to be the capital of the Armenian and later also Kurdish Kingdom – it was before islamization forced by Turkish government.
After the coup in Turkey in 1971, Yekta Uzunoglu received a scholarship in Czechoslovakia – at that time he studied in Paris. “I could choose one of five countries, including Sweden, but I chose Czechoslovakia. Our legendary leader Masúd Barzání visited Prague in 1958 and another Kurdish leader, who was later murdered in Vienna, even lived there. In addition to that, the first person who ever presented some information about Kurds in UNO, was Jiří Hájek, Professor and Foreign Minister at the times of Alexander Dubček. The fact is not familiar in Bohemia but among Kurds it was written in history and awareness“, said the man who started a few business companies in the Czech Republic after 1990. Some of them brought profit that enabled publishing Kurdish books and providing some students from his motherland with various scholarships. Later, however, he clashed with the famous Czech „legal“ system that has not much to do with justice as it too often serves as a tool of different influential groups.
He became a representative of Skoda Prague and Skoda Pilzen in Central East, which proved to be fatal for the Kurdish Doctor. „That was a fatal contract as production facilities did not have right to do business independently during the totality. After the coup the business companies started falling apart and Skoda asked me for help so that they could continue with different projects,“ the guest specified the time when his trouble started. „Less than two weeks after the contract was signed, Mr Jaromír Johanes, the ambassador in the Turkish city of Ankara, came into my office. He used to be Foreign Minister during Gustáv Husák times. He tried to discourage me from any kind of involvement in the field of energetics. I perceived it as a threat,“ Yekta Uzunoglu recalls. It was on September 1, 1994. The Kurdish businessman was arrested.
Then perhaps the most unbelievable case in the in the history of international justice started. By the way, the involvement of the high-position communist and new-born diplomat Johanes in the case only confirms Stanislav Novotný‘s words said in the interview provided for actual issue of Šifra magazine in which he reveals the background of the November coup that had been completely arranged in advance – the top representatives of the Communist regime gave up their power just for the sake of appearance but in reality they kept the key influence in the country.
“The plot is completely crazy. You were arrested and charged, together with three Kurds, with frightful crimes, torture and preparations of murders, you were supposed to deal with weapons, drugs and you were kept in custody for 31 months (while the law allows just 24 months),“ Stanislav Novotný wondered – he said he had not seen anything like that before. And he used to be the Police boss…
„I am the first person in the history of criminalistics who was charged with triple murder but the charge lasted just for two and a half months. None of the fabricated allegations was justified. After the two years in jail I was awarded German citizenship, it was delivered to me by German ambassador in person in the custodial establishment,“ Mr. Uzunoglu said in perfect Czech. It took 13 years before he was able to clean his name. He did not commit any of the 17 heavy crimes he was charged with and the state had to pay substantial damages. Just an example: He was present at a meeting in the Diplomat Hotel while at the same time he was supposed to torture someone in Prague 4. There were many witnesses but they were questioned only after 12 years… The Kurd‘s arrest was done by captain Josef Opava, later proved guilty as the boss of Berdych gang. The Czech justice in reality…
“The bad luck of mine is that I am Kurdish,“ Yekta Uzunoglu thinks now. “It is like the stories of the Jews during WWII. If we, Kurds, had our own state, the criminal structures in the Czech state would not dare to do anything like that. It cannot happen even in Africa that someone is accused of 17 most dangerous crimes and than it came out that everything was fabricated.“
Later during the programme there were interesting talks about Kurds, their national identity, history, about the Mr Uzunoglu‘s relationship to the Czech culture. „Partly I am a person of the local culture. I was influenced by Masaryk, I was influenced by Comenius,“ says the man who is able to speak ten languages and among others he translated the play R.U.R. by Karel Čapek into the Kurdish language.
According to him, the Czech language, is closest to the Kurdish language of all other languages, it has the common Indo-European origin. “Let me give an example. Woman – in French it is le femme, Frau in German, in Czech žena and in Kurdish it is Jin (pronounced with „ž“). The Czech work “bratr“ (brother) means “bra“ in Kurdish. No other language has vocative – only Czech and Kurdish.
The Kurdish people used to have their own kingdom but later they were islamized by the Arabs who slaughtered half of the population on the way. “The Kurds were forced to adopt Islam but they were not able to identify themselves wit the Arabish Islam, they established their own branch – šafia, which is the most liberal and tolerant of all.
When the guest was asked about the Czech and Europeans politics, he answered: “European civilization is falling apart. It is not a radical opinion but a real and objective one.“ When questioned if the European Union is reformable, he said, “Not from Brussels.“ Yekta Uzunoglu has long experience with European institutions as he used to be in high business and political ranks. That is why he has no illusions. “The European Parliament is not an influential institution, it has no power or authority. European people are suggested that it is an important institution and people should take part in the election etc. Which is not true at all. The European Parliament has no role, it can only give advice to other institutions.“ Yes, it can give advice to the European Commission headed by Juncker, but they do not have to follow the advice at all. How democratic…
“That is no parliament,“ Stanislav Novotný agrees. “The officials who are being paid there are paid to do harm. Basically, it is just legalized corruption.“ Yekta Uzunoglu remarked, “If you came to the European Parliament on Thursday afternoon, you would find hardly any people there.“
At the end the guest went back to the situation of the Czech Republic and Europe. “I am sad to see the decline of Czech culture and all the values created by your ancestors in incredible conditions. The Kurds in Germany see the German culture and this civilization the same way. Either Europe finds its self reflection and gets out of that or it will be totally disintegrated.“
The programme On the Verge of Changes is listened to and summarized by Milan Vidlák, editor-in-chief and the only author of the Šifra magazine. The independent monthly is issued in both printed and digital form
12-03-2019
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