The Gulf Crisis and New World Order — Page 110
Sixrh Friday Senno11 Nov 16, 1990 them live in the Soviet Union. As such the number of Turks living in Turkey is 44,000,000 and in the Soviet Union they are 42,000,000. Similarly, in China there are 7,000,000. Therefore the total number of Turks living in those two communist countries is more than those living in Turkey. But they are not sentimentally affiliated with their countries of residence. Rather, they are inclined towards Turkey itself. Turkey is also watching them and inclined towards them. When I toured Portugal and Spain, the Ambassadors of Bulgaria in both those countries wished to see me. During my talk with them, I learnt that both were apprehensive of a danger from Turkey. Upon further research, I realized that they were fearful of Turkey, because of the past excesses committed against the Turkish people. Now that they do not have the protection of the Soviet Union, they fear that they will be left at the mercy of Turkey; and the Turkish nation will extract its historical revenge against them. At that time I did not know much about this subject but when I returned from my tour and investigated further, I understood the reason of the worry of Bulgaria. In 1989 i. e. , last year, Bulgaria committed such atrocities against the Turks living there, that within one year three hundred thousand immigrated from Bulgaria to Turkey. As such, not only the national prejudices exist at the present time but they are escalating as a result of the revolutionary changes in the Soviet Union. It will indeed be an extremely ignorant man who says that the world has entered a period of peace and the danger of wars has disappeared. In fact, these suppressed dangers are only now raising their head. Similarly, there are old enmities between Armenia and Turkey and also between Armenia and Az. arbaijan, a state in the Soviet Union. There have been historical conflicts between them. The Turks who live in the Soviet Union also have differences between themselves. Uzbic Turks are demanding a separate identity from the rest of the Turks. They fear that if they are lumped together with the rest of the Turks, they will lose their identity and will be o verwhelmed by the other Turks. For long, there have been tights with continuing conflicts between Uzbekistan and the adjoining Turkish States. THE DEPLORABLE CONDITIONS IN AFRICA As far as the racial prejudices are concerned, we should now look at Africa. In fact whatever conflicts and dangers exist in Af rica, their 110