The Kurdish Issue and the Political Parties
A far-right party, the Nationalist Movement Party (MHP), owes its post-1980 existence to a great extent to the Kurdish issue and the terrorist acts of the PKK.
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Quo Vadis PKK?
If the outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) believes that a withdrawal to Kandil only will be sufficient, the other phases of the solution process may be put into practice arduously.
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Öcalan has recognized the fact that Turkeys democratic consolidation would be delayed as long as the PKK continued to hold arms.
As the parties take a political-stress-test in the solution process, all of the actors who fail to play a founding-role will have to suffer structural fractures, independently of the survival or success of the process.
The dynamics of the current political climate in Turkey, which make impossible to create a new Constitution based on consensus among political parties, can be discussed under three headings.
For years, the liberal/left discourse in Turkey misconstrued the identity debate to describe the Kurdish question through the Western-informed lens of the distinction between good and bad.
The Solution Process and the Media
The old Turkeys only actor who has changed neither radically nor genuinely, nor has even discussed the change, is the Turkish mainstream media.
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The New Turkey's Indigenous Solution Model
The messages coming from the Imrali during the solution process reflect the efforts for creating a new conceptual frame to settle in the legitimate-center.
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Belated Kurdish nationalism perhaps could not give anything to the Kurds, but it surely bestowed at least 20 years to the regime of tutelage for it to survive.
The peace process will give us the opportunity to devise a more assertive and broader future by reconstructing a common we on a more righteous and healthier ground.
Given the projected direction and strategic vision of the message and notions used in the statement, this message represents a mental transformation and a paradigm change.
The message of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) leader Abdullah Öcalan promises, with its most general terms, a quite different world from the 30-year-old clichés.
