Nelson Mandela's Message to the Kurds (1997) " We know what it means to be oppressed in your own country. We know the pain of a mother whose child has disappeared… We know what it means when a child not be talked in a language of his or her mother We know what it means to have your nationality and culture insulted..that is what the Turkish Government doing to the Kurds,and for this reason,today i am not your visitor i am not your guest I am part of the Kurdish struggle. I am one of you. we know that the European Communi ty and particularly Germany use the excuse of terrorism and security to stop the peace process I want to tell them that Nelson Mandela was also called terrorist but now he is a president of south Africa I want to tell them that Robert Mugabe was called terrorist and now he is a president of Zimbabwe......my dear friends of Kurdistan we hope soon that your leaders will be in your Perlman in Kurdistan and you will have your own president... its "Turkish w...