“If Turkey is not able to solve the Kurdish problem, it cannot be the star of the region.

http://www.kurdmedia.com/article.aspx?id=16731

soon it will be elections in Turkey and this article interested me very much because it is so racist at the end.

‎"""If Turkey is not able to solve this problem, it cannot be the star of the region. She will always be a limping giant. But you cannot give up on everything. This is a bargain ship. The Kurds are right to ask for some rights, but from time to time, they go overboard; they ask for even more than the moon"""
Mehmet Ali Birand is a writer, political analyst and one of Turkey’s most prominent journalists and television commentators. He is the author of eight books on Turkish domestic and international policies, including “Relations with the EU since 1963”, “Structure of the Turkish Army”, “The 12 September Military Coup”, “The Kurdish Problem” and “The 1974 Cyprus Intervention and Turkish-Greek Relations”. His books have been translated into English, German and Greek.

I'm very shocked that such a big man with so good knowledge saysthis. does he really believe it is the moon and the sun Kurds want?  
I think it is time for  Turkey to recognize the genocide of Armenians and Kurds and then talk about Eu.