Stories of Paraná - Kurds in northern Parana?

Stories of Paraná - Kurds in northern Parana?

The Kurds in northern Parana?
Ruy C. Wachowicz

In the 20s, the North of Paraná was almost transformed by the British of "Paraná Plantation" - the largest
colonizing the region - in a dump site for the Kurds in northern Iraq.
The British had found oil in that region of Iraq, which was then under British tutelage.
The Kurds created many problems for the British, because of their traditional national agitation.
To alleviate these pressures that threatened the profits promised to provide oil, decided to transfer
over 100,000 of these elements to the lands of the "Paraná Plantation" located in northern Paraná.
The "House of Rothschild", the "Lazard Brothers," the Prince of Wales and the League of Nations, lobbied the government
Getúlio Vargas to agree to receive them.
Negotiations passed in secret, without the means of communication Brazilians take knowledge.
But in December 1933, it transpired.
Lawyers and intellectuals gathered in Curitiba were permanent, it was time for Constituent.
Resolved as oppose arrival of these Kurds, who were ignorantly called "Assyrians".
Two media were the most commonly used against this immigration: the press and the microphone of Radio Club,
PRB2 recently installed in Curitiba and was at the time a real "whooping" popular.
The station was one of the first commercial broadcasting stations operating in Brazil.
The radio gave freely their microphones and lawyers called their program "The Voice of Paraná."
The Kurds were presented as an undesirable immigration.
They were called "rogue", "race without stoves and no altars", "saltiness of civilization", "bleach society"
"Element beaten by stories", etc.. Etc.. Several entities in Curitiba, led by corporate workers,
reached to organize a "meeting" (term used at the time to denote rally) in the square Ozório.
Every night was a lawyer in charge of lecture microphone PRB2. Nationally, the Paraná causídicos
allied to the Society of Friends of Alberto Torres.
Despite the Minister Salgado Filho had already given their agreement to introduce the "Assyrians", the very "Paraná Plantation" gave up the enterprise.
Concluded that the English, with public opinion against the action of the campaign, the rest of the land in the north suffer sharp devaluation.
Therefore opted to sell them under a smallholding farmers of any nationality.
Got away as the Paraná this exotic venture.

Ruy C. Wachowicz historian eprofessor university


Source: Stories of Paraná, Brasil.