Due to the 29th anniversary of the massacre of the Halabja, a crowded delegation from the HUDA PAR Youth branches has visited the Iraqi Kurdistan in a series of important visits and negotiations. During the visit, mutual satisfaction was expressed alongside the exchange of ideas.

In addition to HUDA PAR general administrative board [GAB] member Mahmut Kılınç, who is the chairman of the delegation, Abdulsamet Yalçın, GAB member, Hamdullah Tasalı, Bingol Provincial Chairman, Şanlıurfa Provincial Chairman Lokman Yalçın and Youth Branch President İlyas Kaya also participated in the visit.

On the occasion of the visit, it was emphasized that Muslims in general and Kurds in particular should be in unity and solidarity, and the oppression that the Kurds lived from time to today was expressed.

HUDA PAR Youth Branch Delegation first visited the graves of the murderers who were killed by the ousted Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein on March 16, 1988 in the city of Halabja.

The delegation visited the Kurdistan Islamic Union (YEKGIRTU) Halabja Provincial Organization from the Iraqi Kurdistan parties after the visit to the Halabja Cemetery. During the visit, Mamoste Ali Hadi, a member of the YEKGIRTU councils and former MPs, spoke briefly.

Hadi expressed their satisfaction with the visit of HUDA PAR Delegation, touched the Halabja massacre.

Reminding that on March 16, 1988, Halabja and surrounding settlements were bombed with chemical weapons by warplanes belonging to the Baathist dictator Saddam, Hadi said that 90-100 thousand people lived in Halepche and settlements around it, when a bombardment was taking place, some of them hided in basements and some of them fled to the settlements around Halabja.

“I could not imagine the scene that my eyes saw in my massacre”

Reminding that more than 5 people were massacred and more than 10 people were wounded in the aftermath of the chemical attack, Hadi said, “I was not in Halabja on the day of chemical bombardment. However, after 2-3 days I was able to reach Halabja. When I came to Halabja, the landscape I saw was heartbreaking and sad. When I saw the scenery in Halabja, the cemetery came to my eyes. Because the streets were filled with dozens, hundreds of bodies. I could not imagine the sight of my eyes. I could not tell whether I saw truth or it is imagination. All the deceased were child-children, young and old. Not a single person among these martyrs was not even armed.”

“Hopefully HUDA PAR will be the mentor of the Kurds”

The delegation then went from Halabja to the city of Sulaymaniyah (Silêmanî), which is called the Iraqi Kurdistan Economic and Cultural Capital, met with Bizutinewey Îslami le Kurdistan (Kurdistan Islamic Movement).

Leader of Kurdistan Islamic Movement Sheikh Irfan Ali Abdulaziz said that they are happy with the visit of the young people.

Abdulaziz expresses that they are very happy with the establishment of HUDA PAR, said: “Because HUDA PAR, I hope that HUDA PAR is successor of Ubeydullah Nehri, Şerefhan Bidlisi and Bedirhans. HUDA PAR operates in Kurdish territories both as religion and as a national. Hopefully, HUDA PAR will be the mentor of the Kurds. I said to the President of Zekeriya and the other brothers; you are the successors of Ubeydullah Nehri, Serefhan Bidlisi and Bedirhan.”

“HUDA PAR is a party with history”

Abdulaziz added that HUDA PAR's are their brothers and added, “We will be more than happy to strengthen of HUDA PAR. You are the history holder and the PKK has no history. What is the history of Marxism? Stalin has no existence and history in the whole world. It is HUDA PAR which is present in Turkiye’s Kurdistan and has history. We hope HUDA PAR will be strengthened there.”

The delegation then visited Ali Bapir, leader of the Islamic Society Party of Kurdistan (Komel) in the Iraqi Kurdistan capital Erbil. Expressing satisfaction with the visit, Komel President Bapir said that such visits should be made frequently.

Bapir, who emphasized unity and solidarity in the visit, has determined that the negative situation of the Muslims they are in today and because they are unable to attain their aims is because they are away from the truth of the Qur'an and Sunnah.

“We Muslim Kurds should take the flag again”

“Sheik Osman, Qadi Muhammed, Sheikh Said, Sheikh Abdulsalam and other Kurdish leaders are all personalities of people who had faithful personality,” said Bapir, who emphasized that the Kurdish nation is an oppressed nation. Bapir added, “After that, those representing the secular mentality took this flag and directed the Kurds to other places. We Muslim Kurds should take this flag again and remove our people from their hegemony.”

Evaluating PKK's settlement in Sinjar, Bapir said, “PKK does not accept anyone but itself and does not identify anyone. There are Kurdish clothes on them, but their mentality is monism.”

The Parliament of Kurdistan and the Barzan Region were also visited

After the visit to Komel, the delegation went to the Parliament of Kurdistan and received information from the authorities on the functioning of the parliament.

The delegation visited the Barzan Region, which is located at the farthest point of Iraqi Kurdistan, and visited the tomb of Molla Mustafa Barzani, one of the pioneers of the Kurdish Struggle. Then, the museum was visited which exhibited special items belonging to 8 thousand people massacred in Operation Anfal by Saddam. (Osman İçli, Cihan Turan-ILKHA)