Taksim's Nihilism and Absence of Politics
If we are seriously to talk about the last two weeks, there is nothing but a huge political inaptitude in front of us.
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Will Edgeworth Turn over in His Grave?
Unless the emerging picture of the last ten days leave the world of psychological stresses, camouflaged objections and selfish sensitivities behind, and is not transformed into a clear political position, it will not leave a long lasting impression in the world of politics except psychological tensions.
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A wish for the AK Party to be thrown out of power through undemocratic means is not a stance that can bring about meaningful political change. Its a psychological reflex from a bygone era.
What Russia understands from a political solution is the Kadirov model and what Iran understands from the political solution is a scenario of forever-negotiation-nihilism as it is the case in its nuclear program. Is either to propose a realistic political solution to the Syrian crisis?
The AK Party, as the author of many firsts in the resolution of the Kurdish issue, has taken a huge lead over other parties.
The reshuffling of Turkey's domestic and foreign policy over the last decade has finally led to a solution for Kurds.
The Threats' Building the Future
Judging from the scene revealed by the ruling Justice and Development Party (AK Party), the paradigm has bankrupted and the transition to a new order has already begun since the world of friends and enemies who stood by the tutelage regime for years is totally confused now.
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Turkey in 2012: Law and Human Rights
In 2012 the government introduced numerous changes and established new mechanisms in order to reinforce the constitutional state, resolve judiciary issues, protect and improve human rights and finally strengthen democracy.
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Erdoğan carried the country away from an undeclared bankruptcy into a great transformation in 10 years.
The last thing Turkey desires should be the entrapment of the solution process similar to that of Kirkuks.
The economic transformation in the region will enable effective use of regional resources and ensure sustainable peace and environment of trust.
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.
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.
It seems that with the PKKs disarmament these political positions will have to disarm politically.
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 old Turkeys only actor who has changed neither radically nor genuinely, nor has even discussed the change, is the Turkish mainstream media.
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.
