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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The PKK Trauma
It seems that with the PKKs disarmament these political positions will have to disarm politically.
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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.
The re-initiation of the İmralı talks is putting the political parties of the new Turkey through a very realistic test, albeit unintentionally.
If the PKK turns into a political actor and gives way to legal political channels, Turkey with this century-old political energy will not only guarantee social peace in a short period of time but also strengthen economic and political stability.
Unless the PKK articulates the phrase we can disarm hypothetically, its disarmament in reality will not be possible.
